Description

A prefab of the combine ball launcher and catcher.

Big thanks to Omnicoder for this! I basically (with permission) pulled it straight out of his excellent "Retrospective" map, cleaned up the names, and made a prefab.

This package contains 3 files:
* combine_ball.vmf : The prefab vmf file
* combine_ball.vpk : Dependency VPK file (stand-alone)
* combine_ball.bsp : prefab test map (as .bsp)

[b:39fh1lb7]Usage:[/b:39fh1lb7]

Very simply, distribute the combine_ball.vpk file with your map, and it can be placed into the 'steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\addons' directory which Portal 2 loads on startup. Then, you can immediately copy-paste the prefab ball launcher & catcher.

Alternatively, you can use the program GCFScape to extract the VPK file, combine these into your own files, and then create a new VPK file; this allows you to repackage the dependencies with your map.

[b:39fh1lb7]Important note[/b:39fh1lb7]: You must use the .vpk file provided or create your own from these files. Simply copy-pasting the contents of the .vpk file into your portal2 directory (and not as a single .vpk in the addons directory) simply crashes the game from my experience. The identical files in a VPK then work without a problem. I haven't yet figured out why this is.

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