Here is a map i stopped working on a couple of months ago which is the advanced version of the facility map i made a while ago, it's a well in truly updated version of the map with better lighting, portal textures, obstacles and so on; so in other words it's a different map that based on the original.

This map is VERY close to completion but there are a few things that i need to do before releasing it to everyone which will take quite a long time considering i have lost my inspiration to keep on going, the only thing that makes me want to continue is the fact that people keep askign me when i am going to release this on YouTube.

ScreenShots:

Download:
Beta 0.50 (5.39 MB)
FilePlanet
Thinking With Portals Data Base

Beta 1.02 (5.46MB)
half-life2.filefront.com
Thinking With Portals Database

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Cheers,
Mapster

EDIT:
I forgot to mention:
YES i do know that my turret models have a different skin, i just forgot to change it before i took the screenshots.

EDIT2:
I also forgot to mention that since i didn't add all of the files so it's in the bonus map menu, all you have to do is place the .bsp in your portal/portal/maps folder, load up portal, go into console by pressing ( ~ ) and type in: "Por_Facility_Adv" and it'll come up with the latest version underneath console, push the UpArrow and it'll go straight to it.

Screens look awesome, can't wait to play!

This was one of my favorites the first time around, and overall I like the improvements. Although I cant finish it tonight, I will soon enough.

Only one comment so far; some may think that manipulating cubes in the dark, hiding an entrance in the dark, etc is "challenging", etc. . .to me it is simply an irritation and (most importantly) NOT FUN. I have yet to see a single map where a near-total darkness puzzle has added to the gameplay, enhanced the mood, etc. All it does is piss me off. Maybe I can vmex this thing and add a light. . .

Adding more lights would make it much easier to see where to go and so on, I'll try to do that sometime tomorrow.

Fixing the light would be great!

Made it through! Heres a few things I spotted:

• Goo under the turrets-on-lifts area does not kill (I should of died there a lot, but unfortunately had to kill myself everytime).

- That screen that one turret hides behind will kill? Kinda suprised me, but the worst problem was that I was in such a hurry to use a cube to kill the turret, that I dropped/threw it on the other side, and couldnt reach it anymore. I am pretty sure you need 3 cubes to do some of the rest of the puzzles. . .

• The pipes on the wall in the next room are misaligned at the bottom.

• A couple of walls look non-portable in the turret-maze, but are portable.

||- Was I supposed to squeeze a portal past the glass into the area that holds the switch to open the turret-mase? Its the only way I found to reach it; nothing else seemed to open the area. In the old one there was something that moved to allow entrance I think, but it didnt seem to happen, and I looked everywhere.

• Those holes in the glass were VERY hard to see, IMO. Maybe if you put an X on cube-side wall it would be more obvious? Maybe too obvious; I dunno.

• I dont know if there was an easier way, but it took 4 portals to get that darn rocket to hit the glass! My head hurts from the spatial geometry!

• The rocket-to-kill-turret thing was nice; it took me a while to figure out how to use the under-stair walls.

• Not sure about how it ended, because it. . .didnt. I reached the last room, freed the companion cube, and even put the other cube in. . .but the game didnt end. Does anything make the game fade out?||

xitooner wrote:
Fixing the light would be great!

Made it through! Heres a few things I spotted:

• Goo under the turrets-on-lifts area does not kill (I should of died there a lot, but unfortunately had to kill myself everytime).

Thanks, didn't know about that.

xitooner wrote:
- That screen that one turret hides behind will kill? Kinda suprised me, but the worst problem was that I was in such a hurry to use a cube to kill the turret, that I dropped/threw it on the other side, and couldnt reach it anymore. I am pretty sure you need 3 cubes to do some of the rest of the puzzles. . .

Yes, you need all 3 cubes to finish the entire map.

xitooner wrote:
- The pipes on the wall in the next room are misaligned at the bottom.
- A couple of walls look non-portable in the turret-maze, but are portable.

- Was I supposed to squeeze a portal past the glass into the area that holds the switch to open the turret-mase? Its the only way I found to reach it; nothing else seemed to open the area. In the old one there was something that moved to allow entrance I think, but it didnt seem to happen, and I looked everywhere.

There was a button that you pushed, it opened up the door above you with you had to get past.

xitooner wrote:
- Those holes in the glass were VERY hard to see, IMO. Maybe if you put an X on cube-side wall it would be more obvious? Maybe too obvious; I dunno.

Hmm, perhaps you are right there, i'll add a border to the hole so people can see it.

xitooner wrote:
- I dont know if there was an easier way, but it took 4 portals to get that darn rocket to hit the glass! My head hurts from the spatial geometry!

I am able to do it in 3 hehe.

xitooner wrote:
||- The rocket-to-kill-turret thing was nice; it took me a while to figure out how to use the under-stair walls.

• Not sure about how it ended, because it. . .didnt. I reached the last room, freed the companion cube, and even put the other cube in. . .but the game didnt end. Does anything make the game fade out?||

No, the map doesn't actually end yet, I'm not 100% sure on how i should end it, i don't really want it to just be an enter the room then fade away finish.

Sorry for bumping this topic, but i just released a more updated version of this map half-life2.filefront.com thats got more obstacles and so on added to it.

Please download it and check it out please.

Beta 01.02
half-life2.filefront.com
Thinking With Portals Database

nice update... looking good, i don't really know what the hell i'm supposed to do for the final test (with the 2 rocket turrets and 2 gun turrets) what i did was shoot a portal over the emancipation grid back into the room with the single rocket turret (that is activated by button) and bum-rush the portable walls near the rocket turret, grab the cube from the swith then useing that as a shield go back through the portal to block the gun turrets... the rocket turret (behind me) shoots at me, i side step and let it knock down one turret, then do it again for the other turret.... how the hell are you "SUPPOSED" to do this puzzle?

i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

That's what i see in the tube.

infernet89 wrote:
i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

That's what i see in the tube.

why are you in the tube? Mr. Speedrun (aka infernet89)... i never go in the tube.. takes to long

rellikpd wrote:
why are you in the tube? Mr. Speedrun (aka infernet89)... i never go in the tube.. takes to long

LoL!
all glasses has that look for me, very annoyng play a map with those strange reflections, i was in the tube just to show you all what trip it is.

infernet89 wrote:
i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

I'm always getting that glitch on custom maps for some reason, I've got no idea what causes it though. I've been meaning to ask about it here before, but I thought it might just be down to my computer.

Great map, by the way. Looking forward to seeing the final release.

rellikpd wrote:
nice update... looking good, i don't really know what the hell i'm supposed to do for the final test (with the 2 rocket turrets and 2 gun turrets) what i did was shoot a portal over the emancipation grid back into the room with the single rocket turret (that is activated by button) and bum-rush the portable walls near the rocket turret, grab the cube from the swith then useing that as a shield go back through the portal to block the gun turrets... the rocket turret (behind me) shoots at me, i side step and let it knock down one turret, then do it again for the other turret.... how the hell are you "SUPPOSED" to do this puzzle?

Shoot a portal under the stairs, and 1 beside the rocket turret and then use the rocket turret that has the 2 machine turrets facing it to shoot a rocket at those. If that makes sense.

Mapster wrote:
Shoot a portal under the stairs, and 1 beside the rocket turret and then use the rocket turret that has the 2 machine turrets facing it to shoot a rocket at those. If that makes sense.

no not really lol post a quick video (of that section) i mean i can beat it. so no worries. i was just curious on how YOU wanted it completed.

I would post a video but for some reason my video making program doesn't want to produce the video into a video format, i'm digging into it but i don't have much time every day so everything is limited on what i do.