Portal 2
PTI element: Really cold lightstrip
The PTI editor normally comes with a neutral / cool fluorescent lightstrip. Ben's Extended Editor added the warm lightstrip, which casts a pinkish/orange warm light. This patch adds a really cold blue lightstrip, to complete the trio. (I actually wanted to make a stark yellow one instead, but there was no such model in the game that would have fit.) Comparison of the three lights: (All captured with forced constant HDR exposure settings in the game to make a fair comparison.) Three editoritems snippet files are provided, for each of these light panels individually (if you are interested in them), and one snippet that provides a combination element that gives all three in one palette entry (recommended to use instead of the three others). The latter uses the "Button type" to select the type of lightstrip. Weighted=regular, cube=warm, sphere=cold. Note that while the individual lightpanels do block antlines, the combined one does not. It is also immune to changes in level geometry, so you have to move the lightstrip manually when you move walls. As a plus side, the combined lightstrip can be placed in a "middle" position on the wall in addition to the four standard positions. Download here: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/ptal2/bisqwi ... p_cold.zip
Ion Juggle Pack
A set of five fling based puzzles with an emphasis on execution difficulty. Puzzles feature lots of mid-air portal placement. Difficulty is still being tested.
Panel Pack
A Panel Pack For All People!
Testing for Fun - Introduction Map
This is the Introduction Map of my upcoming mappack, Testing for Fun. When I'm done with all of the maps, I will release the mappack as a whole, meaning that all of the maps will be together in a file. You can check the progress of the mappack at http://www.moddb.com/mods/testing-for-fun It's not really optimized and 100% done yet so yeah. Tell me what you think about it and what I can improve on. All feedbacks appreciated! Players who download this file and comment (or give advice) about it will be credited as a playtester of the mappack. Special Thanks to: (This list will be posted on the official release file and will be modified to include the playtesters and other helpers) ChickenMobile - Level Chooser, wake-up scene, door, BTS area advice Sprowl - BTS area & indicator lights advice Greykarel - BTS area advice FelixGriffin - BTS area advice Lpfreaky90 - BTS area advice, idea Zivi7 - BTS area advice, idea, playtester CamBen - BTS area advice Portal2tenacious - BTS area advice Omnicoder - Custom Test Chamber Sign Maker FourthReaper - Textures advice Pitkakorvaa - Tideline advice Habzs - Tideline advice josepezdj - Encouragement HMW - Wake-up room & elevator advice Dreey - Statis Mappack .vmf files Thanks for (play)testing! Cheers!
Coop Opposite Linkage
Opposite linkage is a special mode for Portal 2 Cooperation game, in which players' portals are switched, i.e. ATLAS primary portal is connected to P-body's secondary, and vice versa. UPDATE: - changes in map: changed the behavior of the elevator (first laser catcher moves elevator up, when powered) added indicator lights and other details added the button accessible only by using noclip to test portal linkage switching - killing one bot, no longer triggers the delayed death of both, instead portals are destroyed and their linkage are switched to normal and then back to opposite during respawn (in a nutshell: when one of players screws up, all 4 portals are destroyed, but the second bot don't have to die) - switching linkage between normal and opposite will no longer change portal colors Known bugs: - switching linkage to opposite, when one of the bots is dead, screws up the portals linkage - at least three graphical glitches related to P-body's portals, only visible at second player site
PTI element: Living panels, 64x64 and 128x128
Wacky panels that do stuff. 64x64 and 128x128 sizes are provided. Inputs: * Start deployed -- Inverts the direction of the panel's animation. * Timer & Autodrop & Start Open -- Choose which animation to play, see below. * Button type -- See below Button types (64x64 panel): * Weighted = White or black panel surface, depending on whether it's positioned on a portalable surface or not. * Cube = Glass surface. * Sphere = Intangible skeleton: Just the skeleton of the panel, without surface, also does not clip the player. Button types (128x128 panel): * Weighted = White or black panel surface, depending on whether it's positioned on a portalable surface or not. * Cube = Glass surface. * Sphere = Portal 1 style metal wall surface. Use signal inputs / connections to activate the element. The panels contain a built-in AND gate just like the standard elements do. Of course you don't need to activate the element at all. Just affix it in a particular pose to provide a platform of your choice. There are 68 different animations provided. The animation is selected using the Timer value, the Start Open checkbox and the Autodrop checkbox. The list of animations is detailed in the README file provided in the distribution package. It is rather difficult to try to video-document all the animations that this object can play, but here's a sample picture which should serve to at least pique some curiosity. Unless you choose the "skeleton" type of panel, this panel is fully blocking and can be even used as a lift / piston platform for objects and for the player. The arm of the panel is only partially tangible, and only in some animations. It is a bit difficult to generalise for the set of animations present here, so the tangibility is disabled for most animations where the heuristic method does not work nicely. The object also does not contain a crush kill trigger, a portal fizzler, an object fizzler, nor a portal bumper. This is intentional. But it may lack other things that are wise to have (hint brushes? shrug), because I just began learning to use Hammer a few days ago, and I wouldn't yet know anything about those. Note: These panels have the "adjustment gizmo" which allows them to be placed at an offset much like the laser components -- except that it does not work. Sorry about that! Just use always the center position. If anyone has good ideas of how to fix it, it would be welcome. (This comes from the 5 positions method. The 8 positions method does not work, because the embedding pit would not be relocated correctly together with the element.) However, you can use the adjustment gizmo to rotate the element around. Just point it towards some edge of the voxel, and then place it back to the center. The object will retain the new orientation. Note: The platform may move within the first second when the map loads. Sorry about that. This may be fixed in a future version. The panel contains from 21 to 25 entities depending on version. The skeleton version has the fewest entities, and the large non-glass ones have the most. And finally, the in-editor symbols for this object are currently the laser emitter for the small panel, and the piston top for the large panel. I have not yet developed the skills to change the in-editor graphics. Download here: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/ptal2/livingpanels.zip
Petrified
This is a test concept I wanted to try. I may make more with this testing element ; I am not sure. The testing element is a cube that freezes when you drop it, and drops when you hit it. It's relatively easy to make: it's a prop_physics with a cube world model. When it is dropped, it puts itself to Sleep, and when it is picked up, it Wakes. The skin changes to demonstrate this. To play, unzip the file and drag the .bsp into your maps folder ( steam/steamapps/common/portal 2/sdk_content/maps )
Tower of Hanoi Demo
This is a very small map that I have been working on that is a portal adaptation of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. (Google it, or better yet http://www.mazeworks.com/hanoi/) It is going to be a room in a larger map and everything is essentially in running order (I hope). There isn't an entrance elevator, or an exit, the goal is just to get all the check marks on the exit wall lit up. Basically I used three different style cubes to represent three different size discs, and instead of pegs holding discs I have cases holding cubes. That, and it's upside down...Hard to explain, easy to see. What I really need help with is making this more user friendly for people who walk into this room and have never heard of the tower of Hanoi or what the rules of it are. For example: One rule is that you cant put a larger disc on top of a smaller disc. Simple, but how do I best illustrate this to portal players? (In the case of my level it would be "You cant put cube B below cube A in the glass case" because it is upside down) I put one of the basic rules of the game on the wall of the room, but I think it borderline kills the "portal feel" of the room, and I don't think I should really write out all the rules of the game. So if I could get some feedback on what would make it easier to figure this particular puzzle out, it would be much appreciated.
PTI element: Vertical doors, Portal1-style doors
I edited Ben's popular door element, and added two more door options into it: The vertical door, seen in the BTS scenes throughout the single player campaign, and the Portal 1 style door, which unfortunately lacks some color details. Click to zoom. (The Portal 1 wall texture was added in between of those doors to illustrate it fitting that style; it is not part of the door.) Download it here: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/ptal2/doors.zip The two new door types are simply added as ButtonType selections into Ben's existing door. All the three different doors use the same icons in the editor...
PTI element: Large (4x2x1 / 512x256x128) observation room
Seeing a screen shot here: http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/File:Port ... ent_02.jpg which has a different observation room from the one featured in the editor, it inspired me to clone the observation room and create a 4-block wide observation room. It is not identical to that screenshot, but it has similar principle: Ligher mood, things (having) happened. The ZIP file contains the observation room, a simplified observation room, and the snippet of text to insert in your editoritems.txt. The room instances will be put in sdk_content/maps/instances/p2editor/ .
