Portal 2 map creator - mod friendly!

Avatar
kizzycocoa
975 Posts
Posted May 13, 2012

HunterBrute, or "Dr. Awesome", just showed me stuff today with the map editor

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656 ... 9217023445

It seems it's all text files. the entire map editor runs on a text file in the portal directory. so, it's fully moddable!

pretty cool stuff. multiple exits and large windows, here I come!

Advertisement
Registered users don't see ads! Register now!
Avatar
Groxkiller585
652 Posts
Posted May 13, 2012
Replied 4 minutes later

Kizzycocoa wrote:
HunterBrute, or "Dr. Awesome", just showed me stuff today with the map editor

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656 ... 9217023445

It seems it's all text files. the entire map editor runs on a text file in the portal directory. so, it's fully moddable!

pretty cool stuff. multiple exits and large windows, here I come!

Yes, but there's a few issues. It's not ALL text files: how it's converted depends on the I/O and logic expected of the instances, and this conversion is hardcoded.

Another problem is any map saved using edits, will for some reason be reloaded with the originals.

Avatar
Termikxs
182 Posts
Posted May 13, 2012
Replied 58 minutes later
Avatar
p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted May 13, 2012
Replied 2 hours later
Can these modded maps be published?

Even if not I can still see the potential for puzzle scripting

Avatar
reepblue
894 Posts
Posted May 13, 2012
Replied 3 hours later
I'm still waiting for the door to be added. I've been waiting for it since I got the beta.
Avatar
kizzycocoa
975 Posts
Posted May 14, 2012
Replied 10 hours later

p0rtalplayer wrote:
Can these modded maps be published?

Even if not I can still see the potential for puzzle scripting

Yep! check some of my maps. multiple double windows!

reepblue wrote:
I'm still waiting for the door to be added. I've been waiting for it since I got the beta.

I hear they're working on adding more items.

Avatar
Lemonosity
363 Posts
Posted May 14, 2012
Replied 9 hours later

Kizzycocoa wrote:
I hear they're working on adding more items.

I heard they were adding more items months ago when I got in the beta.

Avatar
p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted May 14, 2012
Replied 1 hour later
The guy making the portal 2 back-stock mod is working on some items for it...I don't know how far he's gotten though.
Avatar
Jomonay
294 Posts
Posted May 15, 2012
Replied 14 hours later
Anyone figured out how to make 2 buttons open one door? I fiddled around for a while the other day and couldn't get it to work
Avatar
vanSulli
994 Posts
Posted May 15, 2012
Replied 37 minutes later

Jomonay wrote:
Anyone figured out how to make 2 buttons open one door? I fiddled around for a while the other day and couldn't get it to work

Linking two buttons to the exit door should require both of them to be depressed in order for the door to be open.

Avatar
kizzycocoa
975 Posts
Posted May 15, 2012
Replied 4 hours later

Jomonay wrote:
Anyone figured out how to make 2 buttons open one door? I fiddled around for a while the other day and couldn't get it to work

I found the only way is to do an external logic system using panels and lasers. have one panel open one laser, breaking the beam, so the door opens. have additional panels further up/down the beam to add more buttons.

is VERY inefficient, but it works. one of my maps utilised it. it was very slow.

Avatar
Termikxs
182 Posts
Posted May 16, 2012
Replied 6 hours later
Or you could just use.... shees, what was its name again? Screwdriver.. No, no, that wasn't it... Driller? No... it was some kind of a tool, like.. oh I remember know - HAMMER
Avatar
kizzycocoa
975 Posts
Posted May 16, 2012
Replied 5 hours later

t3x wrote:
Or you could just use.... shees, what was its name again? Screwdriver.. No, no, that wasn't it... Driller? No... it was some kind of a tool, like.. oh I remember know - HAMMER

or that too. but I hear it's broken?

Avatar
Groxkiller585
652 Posts
Posted May 16, 2012
Replied 1 hour later

Kizzycocoa wrote:

t3x wrote:
Or you could just use.... shees, what was its name again? Screwdriver.. No, no, that wasn't it... Driller? No... it was some kind of a tool, like.. oh I remember know - HAMMER>
or that too. but I hear it's broken?

It was, but not anymore.

Avatar
p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted May 16, 2012
Replied 7 hours later
Yah they fixed it a couple days after breaking it. At least we know they still have the source code for it, somewhere.

Not that they'll ever properly update it.

Avatar
LambdaCore 21
144 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 5 months later
Avatar
p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 24 minutes later

LambdaCore 21 wrote:

wat

Avatar
reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 22 minutes later
Yay! Aerial Faith Cube!
Avatar
FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 1 hour later
How did you do that?!

Wait, is that the TeachWithPortals version?

Advertisement
Registered users don't see ads! Register now!