I have some questions. So because i love lists ill make a list.
-Is it possible to download the mapping tools so i can get used to them before i buy portal?
-Is it possible to take different words from what glados says and compose a new sentence?
-Is it possible to change the dirrection of gravity in a map?
-I guess thats it. The list is over.

Happy portaling

panos wrote:
-Is it possible to download the mapping tools so i can get used to them before i buy portal?

You might be able to use the Alien Swarm SDK, but I never used this method.

panos wrote:
-Is it possible to take different words from what glados says and compose a new sentence?

Of course! However it definatley sound botched, it will be extremely obvious you've combined words from different sentences.

panos wrote:
-Is it possible to change the dirrection of gravity in a map?

There's a way to fake it, but it won't work for 100% of situations.

I also have a question.
Is it possible to get music from the portal 2 soundtrack into the game? I think they are not included, since I haven't found them in the sound resource browser.

Thanks in advance

Unjo wrote:
I also have a question.
Is it possible to get music from the portal 2 soundtrack into the game? I think they are not included, since I haven't found them in the sound resource browser.

Thanks in advance

Here, after using the most powerful tool in the world.

Unjo wrote:
I also have a question.
Is it possible to get music from the portal 2 soundtrack into the game? I think they are not included, since I haven't found them in the sound resource browser.

Thanks in advance

Sure you can, they can either be in WAVE format (.wav):

44.1kHz, 16Bit, Stereo

or MPEG format (.mp3):

44.1kHz, Stereo.

You'll have to use something like Goldwave to convert them if they are not already the correct type.

Lostprophetpunk wrote:
Here, after using the most powerful tool in the world.

lol he uses TWP and I can see my avatar in one of the threads xD

He even links to the thread in the description of the video.

Kasc wrote:
panos wrote:

-Is it possible to download the mapping tools so i can get used to them before i buy portal?

You might be able to use the Alien Swarm SDK, but I never used this method.

I'm reasonably sure you still have to have the Portal 2 assets (models, textures, entities) somehow, and that comes from owning the game.

Short answer to the op's question: no.

Well, he said the mapping tools, not specifically the Portal 2 authoring tools. I think he's just saying he'd like to see how difficult it is to map using the Source SDK in contrast to maybe something else that he's used before. In that case, Source SDK is now free since Team Fortress 2 went free-to-play. I'm not sure if they've released the free SDK to the public yet but they definitely announced it.

Ah, quite right. What would be the closest to modern Portal 2 mapping? Does TF2 have instances? Or was that innovation from L4D2?

Hober wrote:
Ah, quite right. What would be the closest to modern Portal 2 mapping? Does TF2 have instances? Or was that innovation from L4D2?

I think it was from l4d2