Quote from baca25 on May 27, 2011, 2:55 pm

xdiesp wrote:

baca25 wrote:

half open structure

The style of Wheatley's levels, or the "Colours" map series. As to say: bring those puzzles in an adequate setting, and your map becomes the bomb.

Your making me want to do a lot of work. haha. Shouldn't give me ideas that are going to take me forever to do.

Quote from mickyficky on May 27, 2011, 3:21 pm

Half open structure means: you don't need big ugly walls everywhere, the testchamber has missing walls at some places and is embedded in a bigger setting. The final levels of the single player ("The Itch") are a good reference.
As for the panels: there are some tutorials around. For example linked on this page:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Panels
Also browsing this page might help, a lot of video tutorials:
http://www.tophattwaffle.com/?page_id=62

Quote from mickyficky on May 27, 2011, 3:51 pm

Just wanted to look at your changes in splitscreen. Game crashed. Any1 else having that problem?

Quote from baca25 on May 27, 2011, 4:00 pm

Had a problem last night where it wouldn't go to the game and it would crash, but I thought I fixed that.
I'm also editing it now. adding prop_static stuff and skyboxes. going to make it look better.

Quote from baca25 on May 28, 2011, 3:57 am

Ya something got broken in my map. I can't test it by myself, and I can't test it with split screen, but the map runs fine with normal co-op... weird. Sucks that I cant test out my new textures and stuff though.

Quote from Lukavian on May 28, 2011, 4:15 am

I found another solution to the upper level puzzle. alternate solution
[spoiler]After using the faith plate and the panel atop the second structure, the platform above the glass room, we placed a portal in the hallway and left the one on the angled panel. Second player put one on the exit panel, the one facing the shaft, and came through as well. We noticed the wall around that level, but the ramp coming down from the panel was high enough that we could make the jump to on top of the wall. Then we just dropped down, placed the second-player second portal above the faith plate, and boom. Didn't even step foot behind the glass.
Even just using static prop arms would make this solution impossible: because there's no ramp coming down from that panel, since it's an arm, there's no way to jump over the wall.[/spoiler]

I also had the issue with the nodraw wall in the red space, a nodraw spot above and to the right of the door at the bottom of the shaft, and [spoiler]used the controlled-fall-one-player-at-a-time method to get on the final platform[/spoiler]. I'm guessing, therefore, that I have an older version of this map.
Regardless, despite the intended solution to the upper room somehow escaping me entirely, I still enjoyed this map. Keep working.
Oh, and I am no good at making levels and textures pretty either. Some people just don't have the eye for it.

Quote from baca25 on May 28, 2011, 4:29 am

Ya Lukavian you are using a older version... I have to delete that. The newer version has all the things you listed fixed.

Quote from baca25 on May 28, 2011, 4:32 am

I just deleted a file and I hope it was the older one. Can someone tell me if the version that is uploaded has the glass walls on the final platform? I can't test it without my partner.

Quote from baca25 on May 28, 2011, 7:24 am

well three hours of work is gone... My starting zone bugged out and then my file that I had been working on and saving thoughout is gone. Want to pull my hair out because I was done.