Hi there. I've been mapping for some time, (a few years) and when I had played through Portal, I felt the urge to map for it. I quickly discovered the SDK workaround thanks to a forum post on interloopers and began mapping. I then produced the worlds first test chamber, originally released on October 14th.

There's not much else to say. The map is only 1 test chamber, and I made a custom GLaDOS speech to go with it. I have provided 1 screenshot and two download links.

Enjoy, and please leave a review here after you've played it.

Link: http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=8
File moved to Download Database.

Just did it. Looks absolutely awesome. Have some minor things to note out but have to have dinner first. I'll write it in a few minutes ^^

I'll be waiting.

nice map http://img-up.net/img/espen180_pxXAX4.jpg , i want more

Okay, this is the most 'Portal-ish' custom map I've played yet. Meaning it could be in the game for real easily. I love the custom GLaDOS voice aswell.

I needed to think about how to do the puzzle for about 20 seconds, which is long for me cough cough Smart one indeed.

First thing I noticed wrong was the door here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/espen180_portal010000.jpg

Shadows aren't right I think?

Also, your entrance and exits look different from the regular maps. It's not really a problem of course :p

I'm also missing the emancipation grid at the end. Not needed in this one of course but it would make it complete:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/espen180_portal010001.jpg

Anyway, very nicely done. Maybe you could share with other mappers on this forum (not me) how you made the metal walls so that they don't hold portals. I believe there are quite some who are wondering around here atm.

Kudos to your work Hope you stick around on this forum. Would love to play more of your maps. o/

You got it!

And thanks for all the feedback as well!

been meaning to post this.
from http://kenjara.wordpress.com/

Quote:
How to get the portal gun: -

Select the entity tool (Shift+E)
On the right in the entity object box scroll down to weapon_portalgun
Click in the map to place it!

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How to make walls unportalable: -

Create a new brush
open the texture browser and search for no draw
apply the no draw texture to the brush
select the brush and press ctrl + t
change its class to func_noportal_volume
place it in front of a wall that you dont want a portal to be made on.
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Looking good , really getting the portal feel going.

Can I just confirm that we are not able to replicate the shiny metal pistons until the SDK comes out? What I assume are the right textures do not appear to work.

News page'd. In the future, you might want to have a standard map release info though:

======================================================================

Map Title                : 
Map Version              : 
Author                   : 
E-mail                   : 
Website                  : 

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Game                     : 

Supported Gametype       : Singleplayer
                         : Multiplayer
                         : Deathmatch
                         : Team Deathmatch

Map Size                 : 2-16 : Medium Map

======================================================================

Contents of this Package :

     readme.txt
     map.bsp

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Installation Instructions:

     Extract the contents into your /portal/maps directory and
     enjoy.

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Construction Time        : Approx. 2 days

Custom Content           : Map, Audio

Known Bugs               : 

======================================================================

Credit to Other Authors  :

     credit

======================================================================

Additional Notes         :

======================================================================

http://www.thinking.withportals.com/            Today's Date

Gotcha.

And many thanks for mentioning my map in the news!

very pretty map. nice work.

Nice, I like it! took me while to figure it out

Looks good!

Mine didn't end when i went into the finishing lift though. It said you created it and all though.

Keep up the mapping for portal though :D

Could use some Pakrat to put your sounds into the BSP so there is only one file, but awesome either way! Deffinatly worth playing.

Nice release. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I figured it out eventually.

Looking forward to future maps from you

Thanks for all your comments! Your advice means a great deal to me when I'm making new maps for Portal.