The ThinkingWithPortals Map Showcasing Thread
@PortalCombat PTI maps are nothing special. Not matter how good the puzzle is, the visuals of a PTI map can never be as good as a Hammer map. I don't see why you need to post screenshots of a PTI map here. Still, your PTI map looks fantastic and its visuals are much more better than any other PTI maps out there so good job! 
@jordan1m Like what Lpfreaky90 said, this thread is not to promote your map. Since you already posted your map in the Download Database, place your screenshots there. From what I see, your map seems boring, although you used colorful colors which doesn't really fit well in the map. You only use one texture for the whole map's wall, one texture for the whole map's floor and one texture for the whole map's ceiling (which doesn't fit at all). I don't see any visible light models that emit white light (or even those colorful lights) and protruding white walls look sloppy. Another thing is your vactubes look out of place and lack of its connector. Also, panels can be seen overlapping the walls. Your laser fields lack of emitters and your grating lacks of frames. There is also what looks like a very thin glass which lacks of frames too. There is a lot of room to improve. Keep working on it
@Caden Your room looks pretty awesome but its a little too bright, making the purple field somewhat invisible. Also, the white floors on the fizzler makes it possible to portal-bump. Other than that, pretty good design
@FelixGriffin The Compressible Smoke Field will block the player and prevent portals from being fired through it.
Is this still too bright? I tried halving the brightness of the projectedtexture and spotlight in the observation room, but to no avail.
Except it's only possible to portal-bump when you have a Portalgun 
@RectorRocks & Lpfreaky 90. My mistake, i should have mentioned, its heavily work in progress at the moment, as I've only implemented the necessary gameplay/puzzle elements. I simply wanted some feedback on that before I implemented proper art, everything is placeholder. I'm not looking to promote my map, just get feedback.
Its easier to fix a gameplay issue when your map is in whitebox than after you've nearly finished it and are ready to publish.
Caden: that looks better, although still a bit too bright for me. Observation rooms give off a lot of light, so I prefer to use them sparsely.
Well, thanks for your comment and I totally agree with you.
I know that the PTI looks are nothing special and they are almost boring,
but as you already said: I try to make the best of it.
My real focus is the puzzle itself. I am very lazy and I cant finish my maps with hammer,
because it just takes too long and I cant focus on the puzzle, when I have to worry about
the map building itself, too much.
Thats why I use PTI to create my maps, and if I really need something modded, I just create a
instance in hammer and then use it in PTI. which makes things so much easier.
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I know there are many things which you cant do with PTI, but my laziness wont let me finish maps. 
Hey guys! I wanted to share how my remix of Toncica's "White Room" it's looking like so far. I'm finishing lighting and detailing a bit more and I need to finish the easter egg area
I know it's a bit too destroyed, but let me explain this: since the original map is called "white room" because of the absence of black tiles, I challenged myself to keep that idea from the beginning, so there isn't any black tile into the map except for the entry part (same as the original); this forced me to destroy certain walls in an "extra" area that I made as a way to avoid portals from being opened >.< And I decided to take this chance to make a destroyed/overgrown style map... because from all the orignal themes this is my favourite!
(Click on each image to enlarge.....)
Any suggestions or comments are highly appreciated
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Whoa ! This is beatiful ! Very good job josepezdj.
I think I'm not as qualified enouth to give you suggestions, but I have one question : I can't find the "grid with a hole" like under the button on pic 2. Is it a texture or a model ?
Cheers mate! Thanks 
Those below the button in pic 2 are models (just browse for 'wall' or 'debris' and you'll find them), the texture of the grate with a hole is 'metalgrate018b.vtf'
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Picture 1 looks great, but the rest of the pictures are a little too bright for a destroyed/overgrown chamber.
Wow, this map is looking awesome! Almost everything is destroyed, nice job!
I also really like the idea of using only white walls because a lot of people limit the amount of white walls in order to prevent unintended solution. But if your puzzle can't be skipped even if player is allowed to place portals anywhere, your puzzle design is probably very good.
Just be sure to try out all kinds of flings because with a lot of white walls it is easy to fling somewhere and break the puzzle.
Example
I can't wait for this to be released!
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