And yet, you forget to mention that Ricochet (a superb map, I agree) has three AFPs, lasers, redirection cubes, cube-and-button-based-testing, flings AND panels. Most people don't necessarily count panels as a test element, but I do; it's very easy to make an entire puzzle out of panels and flings.

PANELS!

Okay, I want to start a discussion on the possible uses of panels. I love panels...

1. hidden doorway
2. hidden bridge
3. collapsing thing
4. destroyed chamber awakening
5. destroyed chamber twitching while still 'dead'
6. portalable surface deployment
7. portalable surface retraction
8. portalable surface movement
9. block player from going somewhere
10. smashing stuff (crushers)
11. moving floor
12. moving cieling
13. adjusting room size
14. getting off topic
15. you didn't notice I skipped 14
16. you are going back to check
17. you realize what I did thar
18. back on topic: revieling test elements
19. general eye candy
20. moving test elements
21. blocking an object in an excursion funnel
22. blocking lasers
23. blocking exursion funnels
24. blocking lightbridges
25. blocking flying cubes/turrets/players
26. doing that to players
27. making a ramp so an object/player doesnt fall into something
28. retracting a ramp so an object/player does fall into something
29. inspiring other forum members to post their own ideas!

I'm not all that creative when it comes to making up my own ideas, but I can usually improve/get inspired from the ideas from others.

What else can you do with panels that would require thinking with panels?

A slow moving panel wall like the compactor scene in Star Wars would be pretty epic.

Somebody created a pretty cool panel that moves up when you look at it that somebody made here on the site, I managed to create a test chamber using it but I couldn't get it to properly work on the more elaborate puzzles so I gave up.

The Irate Pirate wrote:
Somebody created a pretty cool panel that moves up when you look at it that somebody made here on the site...

That would be me
What did you have trouble on? I could help.

I used panels on my new map that I released, made a "false wall" with the help of panels.

chickenmobile wrote:
The Irate Pirate wrote:

Somebody created a pretty cool panel that moves up when you look at it that somebody made here on the site...

That would be me
What did you have trouble on? I could help.

Don't worry about it, I lost interest in the map ages ago and I can't be bothered to try to get it work properly. The game mechanic definitely had potential though, i'd try to make a proper chamber based on it if I was you Chickenmobile, with your skill it'd be great.