if i made a map and submitted it here it had to be related to portal or could it just be a map (that you can complete) ? with related to portal i mean in the portal univers where you use the ASHPD(Aperture Science Hanheld Portal Device), etc...

As long as it runs in the Portal engine, i'd say it's fair game.

NocturnalGhost wrote:
As long as it runs in the Portal engine, i'd say it's fair game.

ok cause im making a skate map .. like the map in css called surf_skate_park_v2 =) i got an idea to make it kinda related to portal, ill make it in bonus maps and then in the comment ill write: Chell escaped from the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and now has time to do her favourite activity: Skating xD

You mean surfing.

Man, surf maps are so rad.

Hober wrote:
Man, surf maps are so rad.

msleeper wrote:
Hober wrote:

Man, surf maps are so rad.

rellikpd wrote:
msleeper wrote:

Hober wrote:

Man, surf maps are so rad.

sssummer wrote:
rellikpd wrote:

msleeper wrote:

Hober wrote:
Man, surf maps are so rad.

I don't know why this community is so hostile towards any map for Portal that doesn't use the portalgun...

pestchamber: if you make this map prepare to be shunned.

Fusion wrote:
I don't know why this community is so hostile towards any map for Portal that doesn't use the gameplay elements that define Portal...

Seems pretty clear to me.

I'm making a note here:

ThinkingWith# PORTALS

Well, you don't need the portal gun, actually. There are a dozen of other ways to make an interesting map. (Autoportals. Both automatic or on the press of a button. Decreased freedom in placing your portals, increased challenge.)

I'm locking this thread. Surf maps belong in CSS with the rest of the bullshit, if you want to make a Portal surf map then go post somewhere else. Thanks.

EDIT Actually let me put this idea down a little bit more - Surf maps are an excuse for untalanted, unskilled, immature people who stumbled upon the SDK tools and want to map because the idea sounds neat, and instead of taking the time, effort, and dedication it takes to create a quality map, they put together some ugly wedges floating in a huge skybox and call it contributing to the community. It's not, it's a waste of everyone's time and the only people who think that surf maps require any fucking skill to create are the same 13 year olds who made them in the first place. The only reason surf maps are popular at all is because it brought some fresh insight to an otherwise deathly stagnant Counter-Strike community.

We're not Counter-Strike, surf maps do not require any skill to "make" or any skill to "play".