Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · May 5, 2011, 4:13 am

It's only been 4 years and I'm back!

Portal4life is a short linear map that introduces some gameplay elements from Half-Life 2 integrated with Portal puzzle system.

In v. 2.0 The map is totally reworked.
-now looks better(still awful though)
-map is now frustration-safe! well, almost...
-crap puzzles removed, new puzzles introduced
-boss fight added
-fixes of all sorts

If you like the idea of portal gun in HL2, give it a try.

File Name: Portal4Life.rar
File Size: 3.42 MiB
Click here to download Portal 4 Life

#2 · May 5, 2011, 11:36 am

A few days ago, someone was asking about how hard it was to include Half Life 2 assets in Portal 2 maps. If you feel like sharing, a guide or tutorial on the steps to do that would be pretty cool.

Oh, and welcome back.
:cake:

"Games are made out of smaller games ? turtles all the way down, until you hit the game that is so trivial and stupid it isn?t deserving of the name." --Raph Koster

#3 · May 5, 2011, 1:56 pm

>how hard it was to include Half Life 2 assets in Portal 2
First of all, it's a Portal 1 map. And it's actually impossible to use proper HL2 NPCs without making a mod of your own for all I know.
NPCs don't go through portals without scripting
NPCs cant use firearms
Turrets dont target NPCs through portals
I just used a bunch of lame workaround solutions.
My previous version of the map had a firearm simulation so lame that I facepalm every time I remember it. You can check it out and laugh.

#4 · May 5, 2011, 2:02 pm

Odd, I managed to get headcrabs in a Portal 1 map I made (wasn't very good, was one of my first tries with hammer) without any trouble.
I also had antlions in it but I ended up removing them because they were too hard to kill with a portal gun .

When I die I want to be dissected by some mad genius and used in one of his evil schemes. It's great to be part of something bigger than yourself.

#5 · May 5, 2011, 2:11 pm

Kaiaatsel wrote:

Odd, I managed to get headcrabs in a Portal 1 map I made (wasn't very good, was one of my first tries with hammer) without any trouble.
I also had antlions in it but I ended up removing them because they were too hard to kill with a portal gun

.

Yeah, but melee damage is pretty much all you can get. Have antlions too, btw.

#6 · May 5, 2011, 4:24 pm

I have found some problems.
See the vid I made
http://videozer.com/flash/4Jluw6Ho.swf

The door closes too quikly, and the button works without cube.

#7 · May 5, 2011, 4:44 pm

Thank you very much for feedback, axe_1337!
>The door closes too quikly
Think with portals, man!
>and the button works without cube.
Not really a problem
Also, the

Spoiler

vent portal

seems to be annoying, I should consider this.

#8 · May 6, 2011, 6:01 am

If you watch my vid, you can see I tried to shoot portals but it didn't work.

#9 · May 6, 2011, 6:13 am

axe_1337 wrote:

If you watch my vid, you can see I tried to shoot portals but it didn't work.

Not going to spoil, but you're just doing it wrong. It's not on timer for nothing.

#10 · October 29, 2011, 4:11 pm

not a bad map by any extent

well designed for the most part, though with some small issues relating to exploitation otherwise i liked the ideas

all in all good work

Portal 4 Life 2.0