Laser Catcher Color Bug

#1 · August 8, 2011, 5:23 pm

I am sure many of you noticed this bug already.

When a laser catcher is powered, the color is suppose to turn yellow. However, this happens only about 75% of the times. The other times, the color remains blue.

Now I know it's not just my mapping skills, since the same error occurs in all of the official Portal 2 maps by Valve, and it also occurs in the mapping contest winner, Patent Pending.

I tried many things to correct this error, but nothing worked.

Does anyone know a way to fix this annoying bug?

Portal 2 maps in chronological order:
Vengeance
Olympic
[SP] Interception
Interception PeTI
Herman
Uprise
Unified

#2 · August 8, 2011, 5:36 pm

I'm still sort of a Hammer noob, so don't expect any fixes from me. But from what I can tell, the bug only occurs if a save has been loaded at any point in the map. Somebody can test that brief observation if they really want to. If my theory is true, it probably means it's some sort of problem with saves. That should narrow it down to the "I'm pretty sure only Valve can fix this but they will never get around to doing so" category.

Try out Twin Pillars, a Portal 2 map by BOB74j.

#3 · August 8, 2011, 5:52 pm

I remember experiencing this bug even if I load the map fresh from the console.

Portal 2 maps in chronological order:
Vengeance
Olympic
[SP] Interception
Interception PeTI
Herman
Uprise
Unified