[RELEASE] DaMaGepy 02
Finally finished map #2! 
To make it clear, there are some note:
- Its still a training map, so dont expect hard "puzzles"
- The first map teachhed that balls can push objects, kill sentries
- This one do the portal in a small hole trick to increase the players perception, so will shoot into any hole they see
- There is a hidden place (secret prison) that accessible the same way (
- Every puzzle has a reason. With some combination I want the player to become bored and less attentive, and with some puzzle I want to trick him (like the last one)
- The broken ballcatcher puzzle is optional, its only to meet the companion cube and unlock the secret boxspawner button. (You just need a portal and a box)
color=darkblue]- Overall I rate this map's difficulty as "average". If you want better (harder) puzzles, map #3 will be your friend
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Download:
http://heroes.hardwired.hu/-/por_damagepy_02.zip
Forum download:
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=119
More info and future updates (will post updates here):
http://heroes.hardwired.hu/-/portal/portmap.html
(The .vmf source also available here, for mapmakers!)
Whats new:
2007.12.03
- Fixed some missing texture
[img]http://heroes.hardwired.hu/-/portal/map02.jpg[/img]
Please post opinions, feedbacks, bugs, possible exploits (shortcuts)
time to break another map 
will post what i find :3
edit 1- as soon as i started to play i noticed the box spawner but then as soon as i got close the map started to lag horribly? even when looking around o.o
Upload it to the database so one of the mods will move it to the WIP forum.
In the mean time, I'ma test it out
Gotta say Gepy, I'm not liking the concept behind this one.
You give us a 6 cubes to do with what we want at the start. Fine. Then you give us a cube tube, that drops two cubes at a time. Then make it so that when you destroy a cube, one is automaticly deposited. And you have no set limit to the number of cubes you can make.
I made something like 140 cubes before my FPS dropped below a level that I could stand.
I can see where you are going with it, wanting the player to build stuff with cubes, relive the good ol' days of sitting alone in your bedroom playing with legos. But it just really doesn't transfer well to portal.
Burn and die! Its 'Lego' and thats it... No 's' ever. I'm sick and tired of people calling it legos. Even when you are talking about more than one brick its still just lego.
Its like sheep, anyone that says sheeps gets laughed at as a halfwit...Why is it that no one verbaly scolds those that say legos? Its just as bad, if not worse.
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Its like sheep, anyone that says sheeps gets laughed at as a halfwit...Why is it that no one verbaly scolds those that say legos? Its just as bad, if not worse.
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Source: http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/faq.html
Aditional information found her: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/
Since your brought it up 
Its like sheep, anyone that says sheeps gets laughed at as a halfwit...Why is it that no one verbaly scolds those that say legos? Its just as bad, if not worse.
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Really its Lego Bricks, the company prefers it that way, they never made the name Legos. They say Lego Bricks. Check this out:
"The word LEGO? is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
Near the bottom of the page.
Also the map was good, but geez so many blocks set my vid cards on fire.
oH whoops he already has it up, my bad, double post as well...
Its just a fun map. A map modified from my firts WIP room where I temporarily added the boxdroper button.
The next room ist done yet and the portalcleanser will be a door. Ignore the let part. Its just for to have fun spawning lot of cube and playing with them. You can try to climb to the green button on the right near the boxdropper (its a lift switch). First time I simply tried to build fully up to the hole using 50-60 cubes but then one cube started an endless motion lag at the bottom and the framerate dropped to 1-2 fps.
The boxdroper button will not be there in the official map, and dont look this map like a real puzzle. And also if 15-20 cube do too much lag (if they are on top of eachother) then I'll avoid using the build-your-stair concept. When I have at least one working room (or done with the next one) I'll upload it to the database.
Btw I also wanted to see if the box-placement thing works fine on others
machine or not (the first 6 I mean).
Comment/question for developers, mapmakers:
I had problem setting up the 6 box so if one of them removed by the cleanser, the dropper drops another. But also wanted the button to spawn one cube and to remake the dropped ones too. the dropper's template was named box. if I name the pre-placed boxes as box and do the spawn command, both the dropper and the placed cubes spawned one new one (cloned into the floor wall etc). When I named the 6 box as "boxes", then none of the events worked. I added an event to the cleanser when its remove a box or anything, also to the box (tried all, onbreak etc) and global ones, but no effect, they didnt triggered anything. Only if a box "box" was kiled that was spawned by the dropper. But I wanted the boxes to start on top of each other! So I made a func_train with the spawner entity, it places the cubes then moves to its original position. If anyone have a better solution, let me know (6 premade box, one dropper, if any of the premade or dropped box is destroyed in the cleanser, it drops a new one)
ps: ye, I testing thing in preparation for my LEGO-room at map 4.