Portals on moving surfaces
I've been trying to create a portal on a moving surface, such as in the map sp_a2_bts5. Whenever the surface the portal is on moves though, the portal fizzles. Is there anyway to make it not fizzle?
Use the command "sv_allow_mobile_portals" onMapSpawn via logic_autos.
The only flaw about the command is that you need sv_cheats to be enabled inorder for the command to work.
I heard that Valve did it differently though. Try decompiling the map to see how they did it.
I've remembered zivi7 already thought of a map based in puzzles where you had to carry on a portalable panel to use it whenever you need it to... I've searched and the thread is here.
useful tools and stuff here on TWP 
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The game's hardcoded so that the command is a cheat...EXCEPT when the map's name is sp_a2_bts5. That's VALVe logic for you.
So separate question:
Will I completely mess up my game if I end up compiling 2 sp_a2_bts5 maps? I'm assuming yes, so could I move the original out until I post to workshop and then replace it?
Will I completely mess up my game if I end up compiling 2 sp_a2_bts5 maps? I'm assuming yes, so could I move the original out until I post to workshop and then replace it?
when its posted to the workshop its name will change... just turn on cheats
And it won't do anything. VPK beats folder, so unless you use the DLC3 hack, there's no way to make a new sp_a2_bts5 map.
Even if you used the hack, it wouldn't survive on the workshop, and it would screw up your singleplayer game.
Even if you used the hack, it wouldn't survive on the workshop, and it would screw up your singleplayer game.
You know, I'm not sure that this is entirely impossible.
First of all the maps are not in a VPK, they are normal files in the maps folder. So it is possible to override them temporarily.
Second, when you use p2map_publish to upload a map to the workshop, it doesn't change the name. It just puts it into portal2/maps/workshop/<some_random_number>/.
I wonder, if you would make a map named "sp_a2_bts5" and put it into a subfolder of portal2/maps/, would the game still make this exception?
(The name of the BSP file is still "sp_a2_bts5.bsp", it's just in a different place.)
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I'm assuming it won't work based on my experience with the TwP contest map--I always had the portalgun on my computer, because of the sp_ prefix, but not on the workshop. So perhaps the folder name is included in the filename passed to the game?