[Black Mesa] Hat & Pizza - 8 Jump Pads (SUCCESS!)
BREAKING NEWS: How to bring the Hat AND Pizza past the 8 jump pads room!
Similar to my other ideas videos, I set the push triggers up for one jump pad (e.g. Northern).
Basically, once you take a jump pad up, there is a trigger which decides where the "catcher" spawns further up, as well as enabling the corresponding triggers that push you into the catcher when you reach the top.
So if I take the Northern jump pad, this will always spawn the catcher in the North slot and push the player to the position of the North jump pad when you're at the top and captured in the catcher.
But by cancelling the jump, I can take e.g. the NW jump pad but still have the catcher spawn at North (and push me into it).
So I let the pizza jump on North, I myself take the hat to NW or NE, and then if I properly time the jump so I reach the top just when the pizza is in the North catcher slot, it'll be caught and I'll be pushed into it as well.
Then I found a method of doing the trick explained in the Idea 2 video: Simultaneously letting the pizza, and myself with the hat, jump on neighboring jump pads:
Break two of the pods heading to the "Northern" jump pad, so that we have a bit more time (the NPCs don't bother us).
Place the pizza inside of that jump pad, and ensure it does not jump away. By having no pods fall onto it, the pizza does not move away for a short period of time. The position of the pizza is important, so be ready to retry this step a few times.
Bring the hat and move towards a neighboring jump pad (NE or NW).
To make the pizza jump, simply save&load. This is fairly tight timing, as you must basically launch on the same frame as the pizza.
Finally, pray that the position of the pizza and the jump timing was adequate for both of you to end up in the same catcher. In my case, it wasn't, but the pizza somehow clipped into the catcher anyway :D
Next hurdle: the suction vent that comes right after it... :(