Installation :
-Extract the zip content to the "C:\program files\steam[Your steam account]\common\portal 2\portal2" folder.
-Accept to replace, else, you'll not see the icons on the sign.
-Run Portal 2, and type "map sp_madness_1" in the developper console.

Have fun !

File Name: Madness_1.zip
File Size: 1.83 MiB

I tried to use recirculating gel (having the funnel cross itself with gel in it) but the gel doesn't go up the funnel.

You don't need sp_elevator_motifs.nut or sp_transition_list.nut. Just set the elevator speed and give the player the portalgun and upgrade it on map spawn. Valve used those files so they didn't have to program every map start separately. If you're doing just one map (or even just a few), it's a minor tweak.

I merged your sp_lightboard_icons.txt file with mine, but it isn't showing up in the level.

EDIT 10/26/2011: I got it, finally, but I must say that since I play with a controller, getting the gel in the funnel is very tight timewise. A slightly slower funnel would help. The lightboard icons are OK; I had an unbalanced brace in my file (Hey, Valve, ever heard of XML?)

Still, a fairly difficult puzzle, both in method and execution. I give it 4/5.

And for the elevator, ok i'll change that for the next maps thanks !

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Puzzle seemed pretty good, hard too. Had to look at the solution video to be honest. I never thought for a second you could fling gel that far!

This took me over an hour to pull off. I made it across 3 times but I kept getting killed right before I was out of range.

KennKong wrote:
The lightboard icons are OK; I had an unbalanced brace in my file (Hey, Valve, ever heard of XML?)

This is exactly why I use Notepad++. You can open a file with Notepad++, select a language (I would choose C++ for this, or choose any language that understands a brace, maybe XML ), and highlight one brace and it will show you the matching brace. The best part though is that you can collapse the nested levels and get a better view of the hierarchy in the file. Great for files that have 20,000 lines as in Crysis. And you don't have to associate every new file type with Notepad++. Simply right click on the file and select 'Open with Notepad++', even binary files.

Not trying to push the program, just found it works wonders for me.

Dinsy wrote:
This is exactly why I use Notepad++. You can open a file with Notepad++, select a language (I would choose C++ for this, or choose any language that understands a brace, maybe XML ), and highlight one brace and it will show you the matching brace.

In the Valve Developer Community, there are language plugins for Notepad++ that parse various Valve file formats: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B_VDF_languages

I tried every possible conceivable area to get the gel drop at high speed and shoot it across the final gap. It does work if you noclip and set up the gel drop in the dark chamber and fly back to shoot a portal in the circle . . . the gel makes it across.

But I could NEVER EVER get the gel to continue falling anywhere else.
I tried and tried. Finally after a full year - I gave up and watched the video.
I am so STEAMED. The earlier gel drop to get a blast across the water and just behind the funnel worked . . . so I assume it would work for the final part. But no. It was a trick to make you think that and waste countless hours. The actual solution is cake but eluded me entirely no matter how much I thought about it all.

I am STEAMED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I must say - this is indeed a masterpiece.
I rank it right up there with Fizzlers are Fun, The Hard way, Boxy Trixy (Portal 1) and a few others that escape me at the moment.