Switching Between Portal 2 and Editor Fa

Switching Between Portal 2 and Editor Faster?

RoyStanford

4 Posts

Posted May 30, 2011

Is there an easier way to switch between the Portal 2 Map Editor and the actual Portal 2 application itself? If all I need to do is change something very quickly when I test it, it is a pain to wait for it to start every single time. If there is an easier way, please help, if not, than I will be mad......

RageCompeX

65 Posts

#35572

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 22 minutes later

don't close portal? just make sure you leave your map, go back to editor, edit and compile, and go back into portal and launch your map again, also on startup of portal hit esc to skip. There is no way to change something in the map without compiling first and loading your map again, sorry

Another Bad Pun

516 Posts

#35574

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 4 minutes later

You could leave Portal 2 running on your map in a seperate window while working in Hammer, and once you compile pull the window with your map up. Typing kill into the console will automaticly update the map when you respawnalthoguh a few textures may have some cubemap problems. This should be fixible with buildcubemaps command in the console.

Hober

1,180 Posts

#35589

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 41 minutes later

Use the "windowed (no border)" graphics mode that makes alt+tabbing easy.

Sliipperi

30 Posts

#35624

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 2 hours later

Hober wrote:
Use the "windowed (no border)" graphics mode that makes alt+tabbing easy.

And all this time I've been using Portal 2 and the other games in full screen while testing. Someone punch me.

Anyways, I use this method:
Have Hammer and Portal 2 (or some other Source game) open
1. Compile in Hammer
2. Load map in Portal 2
3. Test
4. Change map in Hammer and compile
5. Type "restart" in console in Portal 2 and test
6. Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6

msleeper

4,136 Posts

Admin

#35638

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 43 minutes later

Personally I always disconnect from a map before going back into Hammer. I figure that way the game isn't using up resources doing nothing in the background and slowing down Hammer while I try to do things.

mironos

66 Posts

#35646

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 18 minutes later

Sliipperi wrote:
5. Type "restart" in console in Portal 2 and test

If you add the "-hijack" flag to your $game_exe command (in Advanced compile mode), it will automatically restart the level in Portal2 as soon as it's done compiling

Parameters:
-hijack -dev -game $gamedir +map $file +sv_lan 1

Hober

1,180 Posts

#35776

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 6 hours later

mironos wrote:
If you add the "-hijack" flag to your $game_exe command (in Advanced compile mode), it will automatically restart the level in Portal2 as soon as it's done compiling

Parameters:
-hijack -dev -game $gamedir +map $file +sv_lan 1

Omnicoder

299 Posts

#35808

Posted May 30, 2011

Replied 1 hour later

So that's what hijack does. I'd been wondering about that, thanks.

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