Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · October 15, 2007, 12:11 pm

Hi there. I've been mapping for some time, (a few years) and when I had played through Portal, I felt the urge to map for it. I quickly discovered the SDK workaround thanks to a forum post on interloopers and began mapping. I then produced the worlds first test chamber, originally released on October 14th.

There's not much else to say. The map is only 1 test chamber, and I made a custom GLaDOS speech to go with it. I have provided 1 screenshot and two download links.

Enjoy, and please leave a review here after you've played it.

Link: http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=8
File moved to Download Database.

http://www.dpgames.co.uk/

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#2 · October 15, 2007, 12:19 pm

Just did it. Looks absolutely awesome. Have some minor things to note out but have to have dinner first. I'll write it in a few minutes ^^

My specializations:
-Thinking with portals
-Killing with Pyro's
-Defending with Engineers
-Healing with Medics

#3 · October 15, 2007, 12:20 pm

I'll be waiting.

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#4 · October 15, 2007, 12:38 pm

nice map :arrow: http://img-up.net/img/espen180_pxXAX4.jpg , i want more

#5 · October 15, 2007, 12:48 pm

Okay, this is the most 'Portal-ish' custom map I've played yet. Meaning it could be in the game for real easily. I love the custom GLaDOS voice aswell.

I needed to think about how to do the puzzle for about 20 seconds, which is long for me *cough cough* :wink: Smart one indeed.

First thing I noticed wrong was the door here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/espen180_portal010000.jpg

Shadows aren't right I think?

Also, your entrance and exits look different from the regular maps. It's not really a problem of course :p

I'm also missing the emancipation grid at the end. Not needed in this one of course but it would make it complete:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/espen180_portal010001.jpg

Anyway, very nicely done. Maybe you could share with other mappers on this forum (not me) how you made the metal walls so that they don't hold portals. I believe there are quite some who are wondering around here atm.

Kudos to your work Hope you stick around on this forum. Would love to play more of your maps. o/

My specializations:
-Thinking with portals
-Killing with Pyro's
-Defending with Engineers
-Healing with Medics

#6 · October 15, 2007, 1:00 pm

You got it! :wink:

And thanks for all the feedback as well!

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#7 · October 15, 2007, 1:31 pm

been meaning to post this.
from http://kenjara.wordpress.com/

Quote:

How to get the portal gun: -

Select the entity tool (Shift+E)
On the right in the entity object box scroll down to weapon_portalgun
Click in the map to place it!

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How to make walls unportalable: -

Create a new brush
open the texture browser and search for no draw
apply the no draw texture to the brush
select the brush and press ctrl + t
change its class to func_noportal_volume
place it in front of a wall that you dont want a portal to be made on.
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#8 · October 15, 2007, 1:34 pm

Looking good , really getting the portal feel going.

Can I just confirm that we are not able to replicate the shiny metal pistons until the SDK comes out? What I assume are the right textures do not appear to work.

Only a spider trusts the web

#9 · October 15, 2007, 1:39 pm

News page'd. In the future, you might want to have a standard map release info though:

Code: Select all: ====================================================================== Map Title : Map Version : Author : E-mail : Website : ====================================================================== Game : Supported Gametype : Singleplayer : Multiplayer : Deathmatch : Team Deathmatch Map Size : 2-16 : Medium Map ====================================================================== Contents of this Package : readme.txt map.bsp ====================================================================== Installation Instructions: Extract the contents into your /portal/maps directory and enjoy. ====================================================================== Construction Time : Approx. 2 days Custom Content : Map, Audio Known Bugs : ====================================================================== Credit to Other Authors : credit ====================================================================== Additional Notes : ======================================================================
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#10 · October 15, 2007, 2:00 pm

Gotcha. :wink:

And many thanks for mentioning my map in the news!

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The Worlds First Custom Portal Test Chamber [RELEASE]