The Off-Topic Thread
On the second day G-d created a skybox and whatever... added a lod controller, and wasn't satisfied with his map until the next day when he created displacements and props_foliage. On the fourth day, he created light_dynamic and env_sun. On the fifth day, he created npcs. on the sixth day, he created more npcs and an info_player_start. Before the seventh day, he published his map lehavdil. 
On the 7th day he waited around for likes and comments
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On the 8th day Hammer crashed
on the 9th day, a 'typo' was fixed. then, a few thousand years later, episode 3 came out.
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Not even God can go 8 days without crashing.
Anyway, on the 10th day someone posted an unintended solution.
Hi. I'm new here so don't really know my way around here. The [newbie] thread was locked so thought of posting here. Would like to know why I can't download the map files directly from here as shown on various youtube videos? Every download link forwards me to steam and there is no section where I could download the files.
All the downloads link you to the Steam Workshop. Log in to Steam and subscribe the maps from there. It will appear in game once you open Portal 2.
So I was testing my tf2 map, and some play-testers found a way to build in the pit of the train god.
(A train is displayed in the hud instead of a standard fall damage image, which means that everyone knows of your great failure.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUl_juwFDA&feature=youtu.be
Skyboxes hate me today. First I got the paths wrong by trusting VTFEdit too much (it gave full paths, not relative paths). So I tried to fix the relative paths, but I got their origin wrong.
Later it worked, but all six sides were horizontally flipped :/ So I flipped them all, but the top side wasn't cooperating, and I ended up having to try all four orientations of it before it worked.
So today I was playing portal 1 again, and was messing around on testchamber 19. I portal-stood all the way thought the map without solving the chamber, horded every single physics object I could POSSIBLY ever have access to in the map. I portaled all of those to the incinerator "viewing platform" and then back into the test chamber. At least 50 pieces of random junk littered the floor, and I did this all without cheats.
Then, I turned on cheats and spawned 4 npc_citizens, which was because I wanted to vaporize one of them with the energyball that was left over from not solving the test initially, but then, in order, I spawned male_01 (Leon), male_06 (Henry), and male_07 (mike), and then finally male_09 (weird guy). I knew I couldn't possibly bear to kill Leon, Henry, or mike, cause they are the best male citizens, so I spawned another and it turned ou to be weird guy.
So, I directed him to stand directly in front of an energy ball, which he did reluctantly, and it took a few tries to hit him, but once it did, it basically bounced off him and proceeded to whack him in the face multiple times, him completely stone faced. So I tried a different approach.
I shot a portal under the energy ball and let it bounce around the room. Henry managed to get in the way, and he was knocked dead by the impact. I reloaded my game to a save from before I tried that. So I gave myself some weapons and tried to explode weird guy with some frag grenades. I lured him into a corner and trapped him there in the mound of physics objects that were still in the room, and put a grenade there. He ducked and covered, but was completely unhurt by the explosion.
Then, a few seconds later, weird guy ran over to the corner of the room backwards, tripped over a pc_case I had stolen from the labs in the bts area, and fell over and died. Way to go, buddy.
Tl;dr portal 1 is great at 2:00 at night
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