Hi All, I'm Lotsafish!

I've been lurking for a while reading through things and I thought it was time I say hello.
This is an excellent community, though a little intimidating as I have only just started learing how to Map and its a very steep learning curve.

I look forward to hearing what you think of my first map - I'm almost finished it now

Shroudeye wrote:
Hello to all! I am Shroudeye. I am GLaD to be here!

So why I'm here?
I'm here because;
1-I'm a P0rtal fan. You know the feeling, yep?

2-I've heard that this place is the main hub for P0rtal level building. I'm into level building, a little new to Hammer, but I got some level building experience.

And most importantly,
3-I also have heard that there is a competition going on?
BRING IT ON!!

By the way, my Steam ID is Hathseput. If you want to run a Co-op, or simply talk about Cake (with Lemonade), you are all welcome.

Test, till you get it BEST!
--Shroudeye

Your level building experience wouldn't happen to include a relatively recent singleplayer map for a 1999 game -- the map being called 'Red Valley'?
(And the levelset it's for being called Army of Haloon).

I see this name and I think... wonder if this is the same person? I think you are.
Welcome!

Hello everyone, Mitsunyan here.
Just an average player, a big Portal fan, which is, well, not a big surprise.
So I've been playing some of your maps, praising them silently, just enjoying my time alone, and then I thought:
"Actually, why do I not sign up on TWP Community if I love science so much?"
Here's this, there's that, now I am signed up, as you can see.
I am currently trying to get on good terms with Hammer, with not so much success, but still, some.
That's about it.

Edit: Oh, that's right, my Steam username is the same as my nickname here, if anyone is willing to have a nice chat or play co-op, or anything else : )

Hey, I'm new, I came across this community a few weeks ago but I didn't join 'till now... (stupid)

Well, whatever I hope I can fit in here and I am planning to release a few maps soon, so... HI!

Hey mappers!

I though it'd be polite to post in this here introduction thread after jumping right into discussion. xD
Hopefully my first map will be done by the end of the week, so I can show my worth then.. if any.

~Kiriashi

I'm not used to introductions, but I might as well anyway. I suck at making puzzles but I love using Hammer regardless and testing things out to see how they work. I'm starting to wonder if detailing and decorating maps may be more my thing than actually building them.

If there's one thing I am good at, though, it's drawing (depending on your definition of "good"). Here's a self-portrait of me holding my weapon of choice for the zombie apocalypse:
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/142/d/1/the_budder_knife_by_yoshermon-d3gzo5u.png

And here's a prophecy of something I swear is going to happen to me one day:
[http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/166/a/6/what_is_this_i_dont_even_by_yoshermon-d39ptss.png](http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/166/a/6/what_is_this_i_dont_even_by_yoshermon-d39ptss.png)

I am a runner, weight lifter, father, pediatrician, author, and mapper.

Here's my three-year-old son playing Portal 2:
RP6s4mitGPI

I'm a HUGE portal fan. I got the game for PS3 and now figured out that my computer can handle it too :O

I really enjoy using the Portal 2 Authoring tools to try and make maps but am having the trouble of not being able to see my error messages because I don't know how.

Any help would be appreciated.

First of all, welcome. However, just for the record there's a dedicated intro/welcome thread. Second, if you want to see the errors in the map's compile log, check the "Wait for keypress before exit" box in the Compile window. If you want to see errors while testing your map, access the Developer Console by pressing the ~ key. You'll have to enable it in the keyboard advanced settings first though.

But again, welcome!

WinstonSmith wrote:
there's a dedicated intro/welcome thread.

Since he made a second thread for the problem, that his other thread superfluous. Merged in to the intro thread.

Hi, I'm jamesf141, and I'm a UK starter mapper. I've only released one map for Portal 2, which I entered into the Summer Mapping Initiative, and have since been working on a short co-op map. Uhm... I like doing strange things with lighting and textures for atmosphere? That's about all that makes me stand out... and not even that much

Hello,
I am here to DL maps, record me playing through them / commentating on them and put them on youtube for your entertainment! yay!

So, hi! I'm Rubrica, as evident. I joined to post a question about something, but I thought while I was here I might as well contribute. I've been a Portal fan ever since it's inception and own both games, and I'm currently in the process of creating my first map for any game, ever. I'm a real perfectionist (misaligned textures make me want to shoot myself, even in Valve's own maps) so you might not see it for a while, but I think it should be worth the wait. Quick personality rundown; I'm annoyingly chirpy, inexperienced and not at too clever (though far too loquacious) so go easy on me, m'kay?

Greetings everyone. My name is Codename and I am one of the hosts of ASEMBLE, the Aperture Science Entertainment and Media Broadkast for Latest Enhancements, or the Portal 2 podkast. If you want to learn more, take a look at my post about the show.

//C# is AWESOME
using System;
namespace greeting
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello!");
        }
    }
}

Hello everybody, I'm Ben... and joined because I wanted to post some stuff on the forums about my upcoming Portal 2 mod BackStock.... soooo yah... ### hi

Hello, my name is Shawy, I'm from Scotland. I absolutely love Portal 2 and after finishing the story and the co-op maps by Valve I felt like I needed more! I'm actually primarily a PS3 gamer, but I used my free code to download Portal 2 on Steam and then found this wonderful website filled with some truly awesome custom maps.

Been playing quite a few single player, as well as a few co-op maps from this website and I'm loving them. I'd have to say the best I've played was a co-op map called 'Fast Bridge', and as for single player, I do have to agree with the contest - 'Patent Pending' was simply amazing!

I espically like that custom maps are generally far more difficult than the offical maps, which is great as I like a good challenge.

I don't plan on making any maps, as I would fail horribly, but a huge thank you to everyone that makes them, keep them coming!

Shawy.

cough

Well, given that I'm a moderator I suppose I should formally introduce myself. My pseudonym's WinstonSmith (taken from one of my three favorite books of all time, George Orwell's classic 1984), and I'm been working with Source development since shortly after I purchased Portal in early 2008. I also do a bit of mapping for HL2 (mainly Ep2). Outside of the Source engine, I'm a general computer enthusiast; I'm learning C++, working on putting up my own website (moving it to a new host, the link in my signature should change soon), and working on improving my Linux and penetration testing skills. Outside of the soft glow of my laptop screen, I enjoy reading and playing classical piano.

Please feel free to contact me for more or less any reason; I can be reached through Steam (I'm not online too often, though) or a private message through TWP or any of the other various sites of which I am a member.

I probably need to introduce myself. But since I'm feeling lazy, I'll let this old thread do the talking.

hehehehehehehe...

hello!

Merged in to introduction thread. -Hober

I see you.