Working with Instances
Quick question, is it possible to parent an entity ouside of an instance to an entity inside an instance?
EDIT: Never mind it IS POSSIBLE!
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Man, some of the 'official' instances are ugly... carved surfaces and just bad brushwork. Kind of lazy if you ask me. Anyway, I have a question about instances: is there a way to easily list custom instances? That means, instances made by me. I have been making some small adjustments to few instances and renamed them, but I forgot which those were and how many... I'm afraid I'll have to do some manual comparing. Please tell me I'm wrong!
You can check the list of Portal 2 instances on the VDC; it's not quite complete but there's a fair amount of info there. Unfortunately, there's no other way short of... no, none that I can think of.
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That list incomplete. Well, I guess I'll have to manually check the modified/created date on each file. Thanks anyway! I guess working on a clean install and then checking compile log for missing instances should work as well.
I highly recommend to leave alone the "instances" directory and create a new one for new and customized instances instead.
How do you access the instances?
Yeah, I'm also wondering how the instances are accessed?
You can open them in Hammer like you would any other VMF.
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is there a way to give outputs to something inside the instance, to something out of the instance? cube in the cubedropper needs some outputs, if it fizzles there need some other things to be done outside the instance
You can edit the instance to make the cube have an output pointing to the io_proxy. Then the instance will have that output.
Portal 1: Portal Pro, Resurrection, Dyad, Rexaura
Portal 2: [Coop] Electrophobia, [PTI] EotM Collection, [SP] Aperture Halloween