Portal 2 (Work in progress)
Early builds, betas, and in-development Portal 2 map projects.
WIP: cg5_01 "Gel+Bridge=Win"
My first map for any Source game. 3 chambers centered on combining two specific puzzle elements (I wonder which two those might be?). Map is pretty WIP; there is almost no detail, although the puzzles are fully functional. I think the last puzzle might be too hard. There are also 4 "pseudo-achievements" which can be found by completing rooms without using certain puzzle elements.
Working Title: GelPuzles; areas 1 and 2 (screenshots within!)
Here's two maps that are ideas I had been playing around with in my head for ages. These Wheatley styled chambers use gel and lightbridges in new, never before seen ways (at least not seen in any of the valve maps.) These are two separate maps (that are spatially relative to one another) I just haven't joined them yet. And remember this is WIP so I haven't finished the detailing or connecting all the tubes yet. I guarentee though that these two areas are 100% soveable (AREA 2: The final solution to the area is to hit the target seen outside in the back. My intention is to place either a THIRD TEST AREA there or a path straight to the elevator. I consider these (at least the first one) to be fairly advanced difficulty, so keep trying there IS a solution, and once you find it the actual execution shouldn't be too hard (I used plenty of placement helpers) I'd like to talk about my thought processes for starting these maps, but it will contain spoilers, so it will be all black blocky. area 1: [spoiler]In the co-op lightbrige part, I noticed my co-op partners would do this thing where they kept repeatedly shooting lightbridges at a wall, slightly higher each time, so that they climbed straight up the wall. I thought i'd do a map where you are forced to do that to gain height. Also, playin the game I noticed that if a lightbridge is hitting a ceiling, then you can fire a portal at any angle and cause the bridge to "rotate" as it comes out the other end. So I thought i'd have the player use that same lightbridge at various different angles, which leads to the next thought: In the final valve Co-op campaign, I saw that you can paint lightbidges with gel, and they used it on a vertical bridge and had the second player shoot the gel at it. I wanted to try and incorporate this into an SP map, but the main problem is the paint has to be directly over or shooting out at a lightbridge, so im not sure how elegantly I executed that part.[/spoiler] As for the upper area, I wanted to re-use that same blue gel from the lower area to solve the upper area. I was originally going to have a big truss fall over and break the tube and have the blue gel spray out from the corner but.. I COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIND ANY OF THE BROKEN VACUUM TUBE MODELS!!!#!@#!@#$ Com on, Valve, what the hell?? I know you have em, you used them in the finale area, so where the hell are they in the browser?? Seriously if they ARE there then why the hell aren't they under "tube" or "broken" or "glass" even? But I digress That whole problem led me to the solution I used. I hope it looks good and works OK for you because maybe one time out of 10 when I tested the sequence, some of the broken panels fall onto the spot where you need to portal. I think I fixed this by putting a break trigger over the spot, but it is kinda sudden and unexplained when one of the fallen peices breaks for no reason =/ area 2: This whole area was based on the eraser gel (water) and how LITTLE it was used in Valve maps and even custom maps i've played. And even then, the water flow was ONLY there as a bad thing, used to "block" players from painting area. I thought I'd change all that. [spoiler]Basically I approached this problem backwards. I thought "In portal 2, how many possible ways could there be for the presence of paint, at any given location, to be a BAD thing for the player?" (because in most of the other puzzles involving paint, you can basically paint everywhere and be OK) [/spoilers] I think I have exhausted the possibilities here, basically, two ways with the blue paint and one way with the orange I know I put them together in kind of close quarters (originally was going to have a separate area for each of the "reasons") but I thought I'd make it all more compact and put all of the [spoiler]"bad" paint spots[/spoiler] in one chamber. And I could NOT think of ANY way [spoiler]white (portal) paint being ANYWHERE could EVER be bad (like, the fact that there is white gel on a surface as opposed to it being clean somehow prevents you from solving the puzzle).[/spoiler] anyways enough talk here's some screenshots Finally, if anyone has read this far, I have a few questions: One: Do you think this is too hard? Two: Too dark? need more light? Three: Does the turning pipe sequence look and sound and WORK ok? Four: Do the puzzles seem too mashed together, and does the top half of the first map seem too tacked on? cause I knew I needed to do SOMETHING up there but when it came to doing the actual puzzle I don't think I really did anything particularly new. five: Do you consider the "bridge climbing" mentioned above to be a portalling glitch? Like, forcing the player to lightbridge climb would get your submission rejected from the contest? Cause even if it didn't work the way i've seen players do it (and I can do it) it could still be done by jumping first. and FINALLY: Do you think this set needs a 3'rd area or do you think these first two are enough. Or let me put it this way, would a 3rd test chamber, after solving those first two, be TOO MUCH?)
Testing the Tests
The new release for this map
Linked Portal Testing
Right now, it's craziness with linked portal doors. I'm working on making it a co-op test, however. Right now, it works on co-op and single player. ...I'm in SPAAAAAAACE!
ap_chamber1
My first portal 2 map. 2 puzzles: -first involves world portals and flinging -second involves a cube and a faith plate This is just for testing some of the new features and to see what the differences are from portal 1 mapping. To update: -Lighting needs to be improved everywhere, a lot. -refining texture placement -first puzzle is cramped, so i'll increase the size.
[Portal 2 ] Kl Test Map 1/4 [SP]
This is my first Portal 2 map. It's basic and small. Nothing hard, I guess... (this have laser and wall projector) This is a beta realease. (any glitches please let me know) Probably I will do a coop map soon, if this is possible. Note: If you do something difficult, you may bring a surprise. // Version 2.0 (minimal changes) - Some texture correction (not all, i'm a newbie mapper xD) - Testing vine's prop_static in a room of the map. - Delete the "irreal" way to solve the final part of the puzzle.
![[Portal 2 ] Kl Test Map 1/4 [SP]](/downloads/screenshot/thumbnails/375_kl_test_chamber_thumb.jpg)
Portaltest Series beta 01
My new maps with auto mapchange(and my old one with new features and bugfixes)!! There is no portaltest_1 (not finished yet), so u have to start with portaltest_2 (90% finished). I hope u gonna like the very new portaltest_3 (80% finished), a friend of mine took 20 minutes to solve it (im sure u gonna need not more than 5 minutes xD). The third map (portaltest_4) is just the beginning, i wanted to show u my mapchanges (in my opinion they are very cool, hehe xD). I try to finish it as soon as possible. greetings Jul3z
Jump
I think I'm going to stop here and start a new project. Note: You start without a portal gun because the puzzles are designed to be solved without a portal gun. The gun is found later in this map, at which point there are puzzles to solve that require it. Changelog 2.8: Fixed some stuff. Broke some stuff. Added some stuff. 2.3: Added sphere puzzle. Miscellaneous. 2.0: Added transition from introduction area. Added portal gun drop. Added excursion funnel puzzle room. Many tweaks. 1.1: Adjusted lighting. Added ambient noises. Added music. Miscellaneous. 0.9: Added ending sequence. Adjusted triggers. Miscellaneous. 0.8: Fixed arm dynamics. Added more weighted cubes. Changed format from .vmf to .bsp. Miscellaneous.
(portal2) PaSch's Portals
Just a test. Wanted to find out how to use the new testing mechanics, and more importantly, how to combine them. You can find an Aperture style video of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSaQIq5iZ4
[SP] Experimental Challenge
This is a revamped version of my map. Along with the original vmf, and instances. Feel free to comment! Bugs? Errors? Problems? Email me or visit the forum. Note to downloders: Please don't take credit of my work Another note to open a 7z file go download 7zip from http://www.7-zip.org/ (I posted this because I recieved a couple angry messages from some people that couldn't open my file) UPDATE!! Code: Select all2.4 6/6/2011 [FIX] Fixed case where the player can skip a portion of area 1 [FIX] Fixed minor timing issues with the panels in area one [FIX] Fixed potential problem in the second area that could cause the level to be uncompletable by sticking either th cube or the sphere on the upper ledge in area 2. v2.3 6/3/2011 [FIX] Altered the mechanics to be instances (This just makes it easier to do improvements) [FIX] Minor Skybox changes [ADD] Added a few details on the panels in the first area v2.2 6/2/2011 [FIX] Fixed case where player could get stuck in the tractor beam [FIX] Improved skybox details v2.1 6/2/2011 [FIX] Fixed case where player could jam the weighted cube back into the spawner, potentially can cause the level to be uncompleteable. [FIX] Fix case where the laser could be enabled without both the cube and the sphere [FIX] Fixed skybox visuals and added fog v2.0 6/1/2011 [FIX] Fixed case where box would snag under button [FIX] Optimized map futher for cheaper use of memory [FIX] Removed an unnessary particle emitter and target [FIX] Fixed the second area catapults to prevent annoying back and forth deal, and extended space [ADD] Added further details to the level v1.9 5/31/2011 [FIX] Changed puzzle elements to further promote a challenge [FIX] Dimmed down some lights that appeared too bright [FIX] Removed some obsolete puzzle elemants that nolonger did anything [FIX] Changed some textures for athstetics [TMP] Removed music for now v1.8 5/30/2011 [FIX] Fixed some athstetic issues [FIX] Fixed some texture issues [FIX] Fixed some overlays [ADD] Added new panel effects in the first area [ADD] Added new effects to show and hide the push button in area 1 [ADD] Added sound effects to the sphere dump v1.6 5/28/2011 [FIX] Fixed all lighting in every area [FIX] Fixed potential problem with panels getting stuck in the out position [FIX] Replaced textures on the panels near the exit v1.5 5/27/2011 [FIX] Finally fixed the issue in the second area that would cause the player to be unable to exit even with all laser relays on (I personally apologise about this one) [FIX] fixed some cubmap issues with the ceiling pipe [FIX] fixed minor lighting issues v1.4 5/27/2011 [FIX] Fixed panels not lighting correctly in area one [FIX] Made major tweeks to the lighting [FIX] altered area 1 +2 textures to make the puzzle a little more challenging [ADD] Observation rooms added [ADD] security cameras added v1.3 5/26/2011 [FIX] Shortened Ramp, Detailed it, and did some minor details around it [FIX] Reduced number of overlays to free up memory [FIX] Added a new door near the exit elevator (Has an area_portal to control how much is rendered at once) [ADD] Added a third turret [ADD] Now the wall of panels in the second area are now more detailed v1.2 Contest-Release 5/24/2011 [FIX] Remove unnessary functions and actions [FIX] Changed the moving goo dropper to best fit the feel of the map [ADD] Music now plays in the chamber [ADD] Skybox now added [ADD] Detail added pre-contest updates v0.9 5/23/2011 [FIX] Fixed Lighting Between Area 1 and 2 [FIX] Added a lock fuction to prevent the button from reactivating the process cycle when it is already running [FIX] Fix checkmark indicators not appearing in the second area [ADD] New obsticles added and redesigned puzzels made [ADD] Extra panel Effects in Area 1 and 2 [ADD] Level Sign (not yet setup) v0.7 5/22/2011 [FIX] Fixed an issue that allowed players to put portals in bewteen the two areas(Fixed with Emancipation Grid). [FIx] Turrets are now more aggressive (but not too agressive) ,and will shoot at a farther range with the added ablity to push the player. [ADD] Added some more Panel Effects to the first area. [ADD] Enabled video effects in the arrival and departure elevators v0.6 5/21/2011 [FIX] Fixed textures not appearing correctly, this was from the game tring to look in the wrong directories. [FIX] Made a cube respawner near the turrets to prevent the possibility losing the cube in the slime water, causing the chamber to be impossible to complete. [FIX] Changed the floor textures in the next area to prevent players skipping some bits of the solution. [ADD] Made special "in wall" cube droppers in the second area. v0.4 WIP Release
![[SP] Experimental Challenge](/downloads/screenshot/thumbnails/538_2011-05-30_00001.jpg)