portal2tenacious wrote:
I've been trying to create a portal on a moving surface, such as in the map sp_a2_bts5. Whenever the surface the portal is on moves though, the portal fizzles. Is there anyway to make it not fizzle?

I've remembered zivi7 already thought of a map based in puzzles where you had to carry on a portalable panel to use it whenever you need it to... I've searched and the thread is here.

portal2tenacious wrote:
So separate question:
Will I completely mess up my game if I end up compiling 2 sp_a2_bts5 maps? I'm assuming yes, so could I move the original out until I post to workshop and then replace it?

when its posted to the workshop its name will change... just turn on cheats

Even if you used the hack, it wouldn't survive on the workshop, and it would screw up your singleplayer game.

FelixGriffin wrote:
And it won't do anything. VPK beats folder, so unless you use the DLC3 hack, there's no way to make a new sp_a2_bts5 map.

Even if you used the hack, it wouldn't survive on the workshop, and it would screw up your singleplayer game.

You know, I'm not sure that this is entirely impossible.

First of all the maps are not in a VPK, they are normal files in the maps folder. So it is possible to override them temporarily.

Second, when you use p2map_publish to upload a map to the workshop, it doesn't change the name. It just puts it into portal2/maps/workshop//.

I wonder, if you would make a map named "sp_a2_bts5" and put it into a subfolder of portal2/maps/, would the game still make this exception?
(The name of the BSP file is still "sp_a2_bts5.bsp", it's just in a different place.)

When the developer console is active, the map name is displayed in the top-right corner of the screen, including any subfolders within "maps". If this is what the game checks, then that workaround will not work.

Another option is enabling cheats via a point_servercommand. I'm doing that briefly for the room healing animation in "a beam too far", because it needs moving world portals.
However, that only takes a few seconds, and I turn cheats back off afterwards. Enabling cheats for the entire duration of the map may be a problem, since players can quit halfway and be left with cheats on until they close the game.

portal2tenacious wrote:
Don't commands that require sv_cheats remain activated after you turn it off? I remember turning off cheats with noclip on and still flying around.

once you turn on cheats you can not get achievements for the rest of the session. new sessions do not begin even if you use the map command, they do however begin when the PTI changes levels

portal2tenacious wrote:
I meant: when I turn on cheats, type in noclip, and turn cheats off, noclip stays on. I was asking if it works with the mobile portals command. I'm fairly sure it does though.

it does, it requires cheats to be activated to change the state of a cheat command.
you should do this on the map startup
sv_cheats 1
allow mobile portals
sv_cheats 0

but then, before the map ends you should make sure to disable the moving portals

portal2tenacious wrote:
I've been trying to create a portal on a moving surface, such as in the map sp_a2_bts5. Whenever the surface the portal is on moves though, the portal fizzles. Is there anyway to make it not fizzle?

while your on hammer, click the map bar and click map properties

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tacoguy7765093 wrote:
portal2tenacious wrote:

I've been trying to create a portal on a moving surface, such as in the map sp_a2_bts5. Whenever the surface the portal is on moves though, the portal fizzles. Is there anyway to make it not fizzle?

while your on hammer, click the map bar and click map properties

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and your first post was out of place