Hmm, honestly I'm not sure. You can try following the guide, but I don't know what might be different or not if you don't have HL2. You might have to wait I'm afraid.

Well, considering the Steam SDK doesnt launch unless i have HL2 or something installed (I found this out after I used my friend's login to install HL2). my acct though, only has portal, and the SDK doesnt launch. Kinda bites.

ChaosDreamer wrote:
So, I take it the only way to get this to work is if you actually have HL2. I only have portal, and I'm A)broke and B) not going to play much HL2. so I guess I'm stuck waiting on the portal SDK.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. I believe it should be possible to just extract that stuff into your Portal directory (/portal/portal), then manually create a game configuration for it. I made a Portal configuration, but it was originally in the HL2 deathmatch folder. Or something. idk, it's wierd. Have a look at my game config file.

***edit

It seems the SDK will launch now. your idea worked.

<steam_dir>/steamapps/<username>/sourcesdk/ I believe.

Edit: lol I was too late.

I just put it in the portal folder (\<username\portal\portal) and it seems to be somewhat happy. I try to run the hammer editor, and gives me some error

a window pops up and says: the configuration information for the game your trying to edit is invalid or missing

and if i hit run anyway

"gameinfo.txt" doesn't exist in D:\games...\portal\portal"

even though there is a gameinfo.txt in there.

Are you sure the stuff in the game config file is right? You may need to edit it for your setup.

well, i found out that the game config was a bit wrong. but now that i fixed that, the SDK refuses to launch once again. I put the gameconfig into the steamsdk folder, and into the portal folder, but no luck.

OH! I remember now. It's /sourcesdk/bin

Gah, sorry about that. It would be replacing a file if you do it correctly.

Well, now that the config seems right, i get the error

FATAL ERROR
"MountFileSystem( 427 ) failed: SteamMountFileSystem(2604,427,0x1324fc74=,0x1324fd74) failed with error 5: No Steam Content Servers are available"

Oh lord. I remember getting that error some time ago. I have no idea why, but I think it went away after restarting steam a few times. I don't really think I can help any more, sorry. Aside from having no idea about this problem, I have to get to sleep.

Thanks for the help. I guess i'll keep trying and hope for the best

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped me get up and running. You might want to add a quick blurb at the end for us complete Hammer noobs about how to run your map in the game, I had to do a little Googling to figure out the only way to do it right now is through the console, and the proper command.

FYI Guys thats "map mapnamehere" in console. Minus the quotes.

As well as the materials and models folders, you will also need lights.rad from portal content.gcf for the lights to work right. I discovered this trying to replicate the lighting around the edge of the floor.

Grudge wrote:
FYI Guys thats "map mapnamehere" in console. Minus the quotes.

You can also right click on Portal and go to properties, and set launch options to add "+map mapnamehere" (without the quotes) so that it will automatically go to your map straight from boot. Useful if you're loading the same map over and over after making revisions

(Instructions in italics may not be exactly the right name for things. I'm in Chemistry right now and can't look at my steam window.)

Ralph wrote:
As well as the materials and models folders, you will also need lights.rad from portal content.gcf for the lights to work right. I discovered this trying to replicate the lighting around the edge of the floor.

Nice! Mind posting the full lights.rad so everyone has it? Text is fine, no need for attachment.

Here is the file I extracted from the gcf, it needs to be called lights.rad in the root of your mod directory.

eg: c:\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\Portal

As far as I can tell the second block of 4 lines are the only additions above the HL2DM one

Quote:
lights/fluorescentcool001a 189 231 232 350
lights/fluorescentcool001b 236 255 182 350
lights/fluorescentcool002a 189 231 232 400
lights/fluorescentcool002b 236 255 182 400
lights/fluorescentcool003a 189 231 232 300
lights/fluorescentwarm001a 239 216 193 350
lights/fluorescentwarm002a 239 216 193 400
lights/fluorescentwhite001a 245 245 245 350
lights/fluorescentwhite002a 245 245 245 400

lights/light_recessedcool001 239 239 239 200
lights/light_recessedcool002 149 180 200 350 149 180 200 200
lights/light_green001 175 255 233 100
lights/light_orange001 218 76 26 25 218 76 26 15

lights/hazzardred001a 228 37 0 300
lights/hazzardyellow001a 250 215 74 300

lights/HIDcool001a 145 222 172 650
lights/HIDcool001b 205 232 255 650
lights/HIDwarm001a 255 201 116 650

lights/white001 250 240 205 100
lights/white002 189 233 247 425
lights/white003 232 246 190 350
lights/white004 170 228 247 425
lights/white005 234 235 220 375
lights/white006 234 235 220 100

lights/white001_nochop 250 240 205 100
lights/white002_nochop 189 233 247 425
lights/white003_nochop 232 246 190 350
lights/white004_nochop 170 228 247 425
lights/white005_nochop 234 235 220 375
lights/white006_nochop 234 235 220 100

lights/incandescentcool001a 235 235 235 300
lights/incandescentwarm001a 250 226 129 300

glass/glassscreen001a 172 192 161 225
glass/glasspipe001f 214 72 44 200
glass/glassscreen001c 172 192 161 225
glass/glassscreen001d 211 187 134 225
glass/glassblock001a 70 194 209 200
composite/citadelfloor001a 103 143 203 200
props/tvscreen006a 196 0 0 200
shadertest/gooinglass 149 49 15 50

glass/glasswindow002e 189 233 247 425
glass/glasswindow035a 145 222 172 100

dev/DEV_INTERIORLIGHT02B 151 176 204 225

plaster/plasterwall029h 189 223 227 125
building_template/Building_Trainstation_Template001d 230 230 200 65
building_template/Building_Trainstation_Template001e 230 230 200 150
building_template/Building_Trainstation_window002d 230 230 200 300
building_template/Building_Trainstation_window002e 230 230 200 300

lights/physgunlight 189 231 232 20

NullSoldier wrote:

File you Need:

[list]- GCFscape, use this to extract files from GCF files. Very handy tool. Link: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

The Link is broken for me =(

For GCF scape? Works fine for me, try googling for GCFscape to see if there is an alternate page.