Portal 2
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?)
"If cube- and button-based testing caused..."
My entry to the summer mapping initiative, playing in clean Aperture. If you find bugs, manage to get stuck somewhere or know how to break the room, please tell. Have fun! Changelog: v 1.1: - lowered a platform - corrected a texture - the testchamber sign actually activates - added a light to the cold room - I tried to make clear what the "useless button" does, with signs and by removing the timer sound - One of the droppers is now large - Slightly bigger room for the testchamber sign - Elevator plays a movie - Starttext added
(sp) Portal Era : Part 2 (Early Beta)
Second part of the Portal Era Adventure. This is a very early beta. Please notice every probleme or bug you find. Please record your blind test (it really helps). - 4 hidden trophies to find Here is the walkthrough : http://youtu.be/yC7OL0cZZhU
[JFTC] Chamber of Lasers (Test Chamber 04/19)
Hey guys! This is the fourth test chamber of the "Journey for the Cake"! Its pretty easy, so don't worry. This chamber was built to make a "story". Size: Small Difficulty: Easy Testing elements involved: Thermal Discouragement Beams Laser Field Discouragement Redirection Cubes Weighted Storage Cube Cube Button Fizzlers Improvements that need to be made in the next map: -Observation Rooms -Autosave after elevator Improvements: -? - Remember to comment and rate this map! Post your blindruns and walkthroughs here too so I can know what to improve on in my next map. Have fun!
![[JFTC] Chamber of Lasers (Test Chamber 04/19)](/downloads/screenshot/thumbnails/2177_rsz_sp_chamber_of_lasers.png)
Triplex
Status: The Hex: solved by KennKong after 11 days The Dancefloor: solved by HeadShot after 4 days The Big Top: solved by Jacu & flatmate after 12 days Full solution video is: here Since Triplex is my third map I decided to go with a theme of "three". You'll find three main rooms, each containing a very challenging puzzle. While each part of the map should be genuinely tricky, you do have some flexibility as to the order in which you choose to tackle them. Rest assured that no super-ninja moves are required and the map should be completely solvable on any equipment. Rather than lightning reflexes, you will need careful thought and an appreciation for geometry. Compared to my previous map Encode, Triplex has far fewer moving parts and should be more constrained and less prone to unintended solutions. Overall I suspect that it is also more difficult but only time will tell! I hope you enjoy it. v1.1: bug fix for hex room v1.2: minor tweaks v1.3: fixes for unintended solutions v1.4: fixed timing problem in Hex (this is mistakenly labeled v1.3 in-game) v1.5: another timing fix for Hex plus some cosmetic stuff v1.6: fix for laser feed into big top
sp_BetaTestMap1P2Vasek.bsp
Hello everybody, I'm a french mapper and I present to you my first single player portal2 map. It is another beta version, the puzzle will not change in time, only about graphic improvements will be brought. Enjoy ^^
Logaritm v2.4 FINAL
This is my first map I realease after 2 failures. Hope you enjoy it. It contains : Aerial Faith Plate Excursion Funnel Hard Light Surface Sorry for my bad english.
Hard Bridge
Using bridges the right way is key in this map Playthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQCYTd9Ptg improvements to first version: -add 1 small puzzle -added a panel instead of a block -removed portable walls, preventing confusion
Wall Tile Randomizer
Ever get tired of cutting up your walls to create tile variation? Wish there was a way to automatically generate randomized walls? Now there is! Just extract the 7z, run WallRandomizer.exe, and either copy the contents of the output vmf or use it as an instance. --NOTICE-- You WILL need to install Python 3.3, available at http://www.python.org. The WTR will NOT work without the dlls from it, which I cannot distribute. Features: -Customizable size -Either white or black wall -Clean or dirty variants -Enable/disable of certain tile sizes -Automatic texture alignment Please note that this is in very early testing - just something I whipped up in an afternoon. The algorithm is also a tad slow and can lead to some odd results. Please leave feedback about any bugs you may encounter. Changelog: v1.1 -Fixed texture alignment -Added clean/dirty variants -Added input checks (no more putting "fish" as the width ) -Improved and optimized randomizer algorithm -Added texture arrays, making it possible in future versions to add a text file to change textures -Other miscellaneous bugfixes v1.1.1 -Fixed clean wall bug (thanks protoborg and tile) v1.2 (A day late and a dollar short, sorry) -Fixed side alignment issues -Upgraded from Python 2.7 to Python 3.3 -Replaced crappy 15-minute-implemented brush writer with PyVMF
sp_Birefringence
This is a medium difficulty map containing two puzzles which focus on catapults, excursion funnels and lasers. Notes: Revision notes: Rev A.- initial release Rev B.- Removed portable surfaces in 3 areas - Organized logic entitie I/O's Rev C.- Added barrier on vertical laser - Removed ability to slide cubes over emancipation grid - Fixed missing emancipation grid emitter - Added no-portal panels in 2nd puzzle - Hopefully, fixed the glitchy laserbeam when portaled on platform wall - Aligned and fit emancipation grid texture in 1st puzzle
