Was this smart or very stupid?

#1 · April 17, 2014, 9:37 pm

Seeing as I keep needing models that aren't in Portal 2, I eventually caved into going into my portal .vpk and porting over almost all of the models (making sure not to grab anything already in Portal 2) into the external folders in Portal 2portal2., like I had done with textures previously.
The good thing is now I have a ton more models to work with, but I'm wondering if this might make releasing maps in the future harder for me. And I'm also worrying about certain things possibly being buggy.
Should I have not done this, or will I be alright?

I think this site could benefit from a full aesthetic/functionality overhaul. Like the Black Mesa forums. They had a site overhaul recently and personally I've found the new forum much easier to use.
Plus, I kinda find all this white a little blinding.

#2 · April 17, 2014, 10:28 pm

You just have to include custom content (which isn't already provided with Portal 2) in your map .bsp file (see Pakrat). Everyone does this (at least those many people that use custom content).

List of Maps, Models, Textures, Instances.