chamber ideas
I never mapped before. i really want to because i have all sorts of odd things i'd like to try... i think since i'm probably not going to become proficient at mapping this afternoon, i think i ought to let some of my ideas off my chest. so..
1. i would like to see a room with no floor, but maybe some really long walls, one side portable, one not, where the only way to navigate across, is to make a series of portals in the same wall you're in, and hop from one to the next, carefully shooting as you're sticking half way out each portal. maybe there'd be turns in the very long tall room, so you really have to perfect this technique.
2. not only can you get into some of the offices, but you also get to go outside. you see the moon. you just for the heck of it shoot at it, then you find you can go onto the lunar surface. or you shoot somewhere into space, and find you are in space.
OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL
3. you can get into a 2001 style space station with curving floors and strange gravity... the rotational type...
HAL voice... (i can do that voice 
if anybody wants)
zero gravity/altered gravity/micro gravity
slow motion...
buttons to change gravity... or other triggers.... object puzzles that are affected by this...
too bad water doesn't flow in this engine... it would be cool to fill and empty rooms making them possible to enter or not...
also there could be some potable water rooms....
4. back to earth... then... scavenger hunt (i'd mentioned this in some other post)
even if you had a level that would take you outside just for a bit to find some objects you need... gnome?
5. back to the test chamber. it has to feel good to return to the bosom of aperture labs...
ya my ideas are usually bigger than my ability to implement them, but i'm sure there's somebody here who is lacking ideas but can implement anything.
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Seeing as how i'm not sure if it can be done, I'd love to see an altered gravity chamber. It could very well change the entire way you'd need to navigate.
Go outside or behind the scenes
gravity manipulation is easy... trigger_gravity set to 0.5 for low grav, 2 for high grav or -1 for anti-grav
gravity manipulation is easy... trigger_gravity set to 0.5 for low grav, 2 for high grav or -1 for anti-grav
But didn't another thread conclude with anti/sideways-gravity making you walk on your head on the ceiling/laying on your side against the walls, as the feet always tries to point towards the original floor?
there was a flash game i saw... i have to find it. where you have a gun that shoots a gravitational anomaly field, where you define a direction for gravity to flow, then shoot. sort of like maybe a click, drag, unclick. type move.
i think that a chamber with various different gravitational situations in it all at the same time, could be really fun. for example, if dr. Freeman happened to be working on a micro white dwarf, which floats in the center of a room, and all gravity points towards it...... ok maybe that's not in the engine heh...
so i guess you can make the gravity variable = 0 then? so everything just floats around.
if you read the book _Ender's game_ there are all sorts of zero gravity battles fought by cadets on a space station. and yes it would be lots of fun to explore such a space, with lots of balls, cubes, and various other things floating around...
but can you make a room that is like a large wheel, like a space station in 2001, where gravity is along the outside of a large circle? gets weaker towards the center areas? can be utilized to make very interesting and odd maneuvers?
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gravity manipulation is easy... trigger_gravity set to 0.5 for low grav, 2 for high grav or -1 for anti-grav
can i change the gravity from the console for an existing map?
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if you read the book _Ender's game_ there are all sorts of zero gravity battles fought by cadets on a space station. and yes it would be lots of fun to explore such a space, with lots of balls, cubes, and various other things floating around...
but can you make a room that is like a large wheel, like a space station in 2001, where gravity is along the outside of a large circle? gets weaker towards the center areas? can be utilized to make very interesting and odd maneuvers?
Adding the gravity gun would be quite fun with zero gravity (I guess it's possible, is it not?), though it would make a lot of cube-puzzles meaningless. As for the gravity wheel, you can always make a rotating room with a func_rotate (or something 
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I vote more difficult puzzles, because i want Portal to be a puzzle game rather than a flinging game.
I picked "going outside" from the poll...though in addition to that I would like to see more impressive-looking puzzles and tricks. they don't necessarily have to be more difficult but it should look cooler while you're doing them...such as:
1. Being launched across a football field-sized room. Large rooms, vast chasms, huge falls. The RenStrike's maps got the big-ass room thing going on and that was pretty cool...if only you had to plunge into the darkness.
2. Or being launched into Low-Gravity / Slow-Mo Goo, in which you need you re-align yourself and place a portal down a narrow hallway before you come flying out the other end of the goo. (Remember in the original Unreal Tournament the floating pyramid level?)
3. Contraptions of doom! Crushing ceilings, trash compactors, splitting floors, laser fields and swinging pendulums. They had some crusher machines in the escape portions of Portal but they were completely harmless. I'd like some potential harm to go with my confusing puzzle.
4. Water. Was there any water in Portal? That is...clear water that doesn't kill you. I don't think there was.
5. Rooms that don't have lights until you figure out how to activate the lighting. Or just rooms with very little lighting. I'm imagining a level where you have a glowing companion cube and you have to use it as a light to figure out where you're going. Perhaps even setting it on an one-way unstationary scaffold to have it go ahead of you and light up a path so you can shoot a portal over there.
stuff.
In short I'd just like more variety and more interesting situations that look cool while not pissing me off over how difficult they are. I'd think the difficulty of the Advanced chambers was pretty good. A bit harder would be fine...I just don't want to be stuck in a chamber for two hours.