A simple-to-use set of configuration files for speedrunning Portal 2 and its mods with SAR.

Place all these config files within the Portal 2/portal2/cfg directory, as is; they should automatically be run by the game as necessary. Ensure SAR is installed.

These configuration files support the following speedrun categories:

• Inbounds No SLA (fullgame)
• any% (anypc)
• Singleplayer Challenge Mode (sp_cm)
• All Main Courses (amc)
• All Courses (ac)
• Coop Challenge Mode (coop_cm)
• Chapter ILs (chapter_il)
• Celeste Mode (celeste - P2SM only)

To manually switch to a category, simply run the category name as a command; for instance, the command anypc activates the any% category.

The configs will try to automatically detect the right category when you load into a map. Note that singleplayer any% and coop All Courses cannot be detected; if you are running these categories, you must manually switch to them.

After manually selecting a category, the automatic selection will not be re-enabled until the auto command is ran.

Note that in mods, only the fullgame category exists from the above. Some mods also add a simple il category for doing individual level runs.

You must set the following binds for the configs to function correctly:

• bind mwheelup +scrollup
• bind mwheeldown +scrolldown

When used in Portal Reloaded, the command to shoot a time portal is +attack3. Therefore you should set this bind:

• bind mouse3 +attack3

It is recommended to change your chat bind (say) to the more general chat provided by srconfigs.

• bind <key> chat

You can bind the following commands:

• funneling_toggle - toggle portal funneling
• fullbright_toggle - toggle fullbright
• customsens_toggle <sensitivity> - toggle custom sensitivity
• useswap_toggle - toggle scrollup being use
• supershoot_toggle - toggle scroll being shoot
• 30fps_toggle - toggle 30fps mode (for coop button glitches and certain SLA tricks)
• contimes_toggle - toggle seeing contimes text (e.g. for double dialogue skip)
• dialogue_toggle - toggle the dialogue from glados, wheatley, and the announcer
• do_load <save name> - load a save only if in non-CM singleplayer. (Deprecated - see cm_only and non_cm_only below)
• do_reset - reset your run

All of the _toggle binds also have +/- versions; e.g. +supershoot can be bound to enable supershoot only while a key is held.

The aliases cm_only and non_cm_only can be used to make a bind only effective in certain cases, e.g. bind r "cm_only restart_level"

Every toggle has a piece of associated HUD text which can be shown or hidden at will. By default, the texts corresponding to funneling and dialogue are shown.

The text visibility can be changed using sar_hud_show_text and sar_hud_hide_text; for instance, sar_hud_show_text 2 will show the text corresponding to fullbright. The text IDs are below.

• 0: dialogue
• 1: funneling
• 2: fullbright
• 3: customsens
• 4: useswap
• 5: supershoot
• 6: 30fps
• 7: contimes

You can customise the behaviour of srconfigs by setting the following svars using the svar_set command. For instance, svar_set no_dialogue_toasts 1 will disable dialogue fade toasts.

• no_dialogue_toasts - when 1, disable all dialogue fade toasts
• no_dialogue_toasts_sp - when 1, disable dialogue fade toasts in singleplayer
• no_dialogue_toasts_coop - when 1, disable dialogue fade toasts in coop
• show_blank_fades - when 1, show [no fade] for maps that don't have a dialogue fade. Defaults to 1.
• coop_cm_enable_hud - when 1, don't disable the CM stats HUD in coop
• coop_no_stopvideos - when 1, don't run stopvideos on every coop load
• coop_no_remoteview - when 1, don't enable remote view on every coop load
• cm_attempt_counter - when 1, show an attempt counter on the SAR HUD in CM. Defaults to 1.
• cm_ghost_server - when 1, connect to a world-wide ghost server when playing CM. Off by default.
• chapter_il_betsrighter - when 1, give betsrighter in relevant chapter IL runs (i.e. chapter 2-9 in Portal 2). Defaults to 1.
• chapter_il_fly - when 1, give fly in relevant chapter IL runs (i.e. chapter 9 in Portal 2). Defaults to 1.
• useswap_invert - when 1, invert the useswap toggle so that +useswap makes both scrolls jump
• useswap_both - when 1, make the useswap toggle affect mwheeldown as well as mwheelup
• supershoot_use_orange - when 1, make the supershoot toggle shoot the orange portal instead of blue
• cm_keep_pb_only - when 1, only store PB demos in CM. Requires CM board autosubmission to be set up!
• fullbright_amount - defaults to 0.1; the value to use for mat_ambient_light when toggling fullbright
• anypc_transition_time - defaults to 0. ui_loadingscreen_transition_time for the anypc category
• demo_folder_name - defaults to demos
• fullgame_demo_name - defaults to %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S/fullgame
• anypc_demo_name - defaults to %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S/anypc
• sp_cm_demo_name - defaults to chapter$chapter/$map/$map
• amc_demo_name - defaults to $role/%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S/amc
• ac_demo_name - defaults to $role/%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S/ac
• coop_cm_demo_name - defaults to $role/course$course/$map/$map
• il_demo_name - defaults to chapter$chapter/$map/$map
• chapter_il_demo_name - defaults to $role/$chapter_course/%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S/$chapter_course

Demo names may use the following strings:

• $chapter / $course - interchangable. The number of the chapter (e.g. 8)
• $chapter_name / $course_name - interchangable. The name of the chapter (e.g. the-itch)
• $chapter_course - e.g. chapter1 in SP or course1 in coop
• $map - the human-readable map name (e.g. triple-laser)
• $role - in coop, either blue or orange

Chapter ILs have an extra command you should use in order to set which chapter you're running. The command run_cur_chapter will set up chapter ILs to run the chapter for the map you're currently in; or alternatively, you can use the command run_chapter 5 (for instance) to set it up to run chapter 5. This will automatically force the chapter_il category (so you should use auto to later switch to other categories). Once you've set the chapter to run, you can use your reset bind etc as normal.

Rather than modifying this autoexec.cfg directly, it is highly recommended you put any "personal" configuration (e.g. setting svars, performing HUD customisation) in extra.cfg. This file will be run once by the autoexec. This file should be used in order to make updating this set of config files easier; as long as the autoexec is never modified, updates should be a simple drag-and-drop process.

In this file you can define extra categories if you wish, using the add_cat and detect_cat commands. For instance, to add a category named "tournament" and automatically switch to it when on a specific map, simply add this to extra.cfg:

add_cat tournament
detect_cat tournament "map=workshop/123456/map_name"

When this category is activated, as well as every map load in which it is enabled, the file cats/tournament.cfg will be execd; this file should therefore contain the necessary configuration for the category. Look at the built-in category files for an example.