EDIT: also feel free to compliment my mapping if you want lol.

taco wrote:
Screenshot/sketch/etc. would be much appreciated - it's hard to figure out what you are talking about.

ok, that's what i thought. i'll add a pic shortly.

EDIT: okdokey, there it is.

the guy with a very sleek avatar wrote:
I'm sorry, but I don't understand anything from that image you posted. Seems you are making this very hard for us to help you.

if so, then im probably doing it by mistake. im actually trying to make it easyer. let me post a youtube video or something, that should help explain it a bit...

Mevious wrote:
I think I see what you mean from the image. Could you make the white tile at the bottom only have room for one portal? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the "ninja jump thing" though.

thought of that, but then it makes it difficult to make it all the way after bouncing because of portal funneling...although, i guess i could fix that by raising the blue gel up closer to the portal on the ceiling. thanks! i'll post more on this thread if i have any other problems.

Mevious wrote:
I think I see what you mean from the image. Could you make the white tile at the bottom only have room for one portal? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the "ninja jump thing" though.

Or maybe use a placement helper with a rather big radius (say 128) to make sure you can have a bigger surface but still only can place it there?

Lpfreaky90 wrote:
Mevious wrote:

I think I see what you mean from the image. Could you make the white tile at the bottom only have room for one portal? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the "ninja jump thing" though.

Or maybe use a placement helper with a rather big radius (say 128) to make sure you can have a bigger surface but still only can place it there?

i'll try both a smaller surface AND a placement helper, that way it'll look good AND be functional!

Does the player have control over where the gel goes? If they do, this is also bypassable simply by putting blue gel where the blue portal is and jumping on it.

srs bsnss wrote:
Are you trying to do something like this? The star is the player, and the blue and orange things are the portals.

Does the player have control over where the gel goes? If they do, this is also bypassable simply by putting blue gel where the blue portal is and jumping on it.

yes, that's what im doing alright. the gel is a pre-placed splash, so the player can't control it yet.

also, i tryed moving the orange portal closer to the gel, but then the bouncy effect of the gel vanished, and it behaved like there wasn't a portal there and i was just standing on the wood floor. so now that's my problem.

How many units away from the gel is the portalable roof?

This can be cheated though. Simply placing one portal on each sides of the gap will make it possible to jump through one and reach the same height on the other side. Can't think of a way to get rid of it though.

I don't think this technique is any good though. When you fall towards a portal the game automatically aligns the player to the center of the portal, so you can't really fall in with an angle. This makes jumping forward tricky since the player doesn't have any forward momentum left and have to strafe mid-air to clear the gap with 3-4 portals.

I'm no expert. This might be false to some extent and there might be a way around it. Keep trying to get this right though

taco wrote:
To make that puzzle "work", just raise exit-side platform to be higher than the starting-side. You don't even technically need a pit, just have the exit-side higher than the starting-side.

THIS. IS GOING TO WORK.