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Just from the screens, I'm seeing a lot of misaligned textures; also, the small metal block texture looks overused.

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You are terrible at taking screenshots. None of those entice me to download the map. They all look so generic and bland.

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Remmiz wrote:
You are terrible at taking screenshots. None of those entice me to download the map. They all look so generic and bland.

It's a portal map. They have to look this generic and bland. It's the clinical style of the Enrichment Center.

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Well you have some interesting ideas, put there's still a lot of work to do. Alot of places were just confusing... I skipped the first chamber right away. How are you supposed to press that button ?!?

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Omnicoder wrote:
I thought the pushed out wall made it obvious you would fling to it. Also, did you see the sign on the floor? I guess I may need to add a monitor replaying 'surveillance footage' of another test subject doing it to make it more clear. You needed to use Portal Standing. I know that usually isn't required in a puzzle but I thought it worked ok. I'll try to make it more obvious. Once I put indicators in it should be a bit easier to understand some of the other parts.

Well yeah i tough about it, but i figured that i would fall into the goo.
There's a platform at first down there but as soon as i approach, it is lowered into the green stuff...
I'll try it again later.

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Omnicoder wrote:
Uploaded an incomplete version for people to try.
dload.php?action=file&file_id=340

Note: Metal blocks are not unportalable. I don't do that till a map is done.

Wait, what? Metal blocks are not portable, even if you don't do anything. The texture should do the work :/

pestchamber wrote:
Metal blocks are not portable, even if you don't do anything.

Do you mean "portalable"? If metal blocks are portable they can move and by this sentence you say nothing.

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
Do you mean "portalable"? If metal blocks are portable they can move and by this sentence you say nothing.

Whatever.

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I don't think you're doing anything wrong...
The Portal metal wall textures are along the lines of "metalwall048...", and the reason these materials can't accept portals is (please forgive me if I'm saying something you already know) because of a special "%noportal" variable in the textures' VMTs. If there is a value of 1 for %noportal, the surface won't take portals. The only place there is a metalwall001 is in the SDK shared materials files, and they don't match the textures used in Flux. The only thing I can think of is that the game is corrupted, but it's certainly an odd sort of corruption...if that is the case, then reinstalling Portal might do the trick. Can you shoot portals on the metal walls when you're playing the original levels?

WinstonSmith wrote:
The only thing I can think of is that the game is corrupted[.]

Agreed, although it may also be that your source SDK is out of date. When compiling a map, the SDK tools label walls as non-portal when they use a material with %noportal in it. (The % indicates that it's a compile time parameter, not a game parameter.) So if the materials are up to date but the build tools aren't, then the metal walls still won't repel portals, as they are not marked as such.

I'd recommend to let Steam connect to the internet and let it update, then re-compile your map and see if it works.

(There is also a menu entry labelled something like "refresh game files" in the SDK launcher. You might want to try that also.)

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Omnicoder wrote:
Could the problem be that I'm using the ep1 build tools instead of the orange box ones?

Bingo.

EDIT: Nevermind, the previous contents of this post were made null and void by the next post.