Find potatos in basement office, nice flower plant groing there. Thanks,

Loved this

thank you

I love the potato easter egg

I really liked this... I do hope to see more.

For a while I was working on a second one called impulsive flings, but these are really hard to work with so I never finished it.

I can hear a crowd in the background, and they're chanting, "More! More! More!" Awesome concept! Now all the testing element needs is a real test for it.

did you upload it :-)?

i deleted that last post so that no one is going to spam me on my mail

okay :-)

I can just post them on mediafire tomorrow if I remember.

cool thanks

Sure thing, but its pretty hard to make and reuse, and it can't really go through portals without scripts or advanced problem solving workarounds.

can i use this laser in a mod i am making?
i will put your name in the credits.

So you may want to level up in the description reading skill so you can read more descriptions per day, because *shocker* they can tell you all about the map. :0

The thing is, it says exactly what you need to do do in the description.

the problem with this is that nobody knows what this green beam is supposed to do, or what the green ball is, or what it's supposed to do once it glows blue.

What you need to do is include some "training" for the player. You need to explain what this green beam and the green ball are, and explain how it interacts with other things to help the player complete the test.

Valve is really awesome at this concept. They always include the player training. Remember in Portal 1 how Glad0s explains what the energy balls are? Or how in the first level she tells you what an emancipation grill is and what it does? Could you imagine how confused players would have been if they hadn't been given this information? Would you like to feel that way?

I suggest you look at Valve's commentary mode for the campaign in this game. It will explain what I'm talking about in greater detail, and it will outline how valve creates a level. It's been a wonderful resource for me!

oh ok. thanks

You can't, you just make the map in hammer.

from hammer

how do i add them in my community test chambers

its right at the top of hammer, it says "tools", right next to "view" and "instancing".

i cant find it

were is tools?

Go up to the top and click tools, and then model browser. If you want to make it into a prop, put down a prop_dynamic and search it in the world model section.

were is hammers model brows?

Hexed a new model, retextured, Precached model in the map, gave output to a point_clientcommand to setmodel player/chel1/player

How did you change the player model?

Sorry, not combineball, just search combine

It's already in the game, just search combineball in hammer's model browser.

so how do u get the combine luncher and cacher

Honestly, its testing with cheats and developer mode on, and then when I release them they break. Other maps like head crab hockey and ragdoll controller tools are broken because I did not know how to properly use pakrat. The energy ball cannons I could easily remake now that I have more experience, As with the ragdoll gun, but I feel like those are things of the past, and there are new endeavors that are not as glitchy, such as flying cars, etc.

This map was also the first one I ever released on twp, and I just recently reuploaded it to here, so I don't think this was as well made as it should have been. Also, I keep hearing about portal placement bugs. I was almost certain I ironed that one out before I released it, but maybe I messed up.

Oh, that's unfortunate. Sorry to turn the conversation 90 degrees, but on the subject of this level, I would like to point out that you have excellent texturing and modeling skills (loved the catcher and door models), but a lot of what you make it very... glitchy, broken. For instance, the energy core you made clipped through most of the models and walls of the map and it took me several tries to make it A) charge when it touched the laser, B) make it stay charged for more than a few seconds, and C) put it in the energy catcher. Plus, as many other people have pointed out, you cannot place Portals on a lot of the walls, it's frustrating. But that's not all, you have really great concepts, like the ragdoll gun and energy pellet cannon-thing, but in the map you showcase them, it's all broken. I really love everything you make, but what exactly is causing everything to be so glitchy?

Oh. Well, even if I made them into instances or made a tutorial, these would be way to complex for real use.

Sullyr01's comment, "were wor they in your items?" meant that he wondered how you made this in the PeTI; he, obviously, doesn't know what Hammer is.

I don't know what you mean by "were wor they in your items?"

cause i want to make a chamber like yours

were wor they in your items?

The energy core is a custom reskin of the bomb, the doors are custom reskins of doors, and the player is also reskinned. the combineball launcher and catcher models were already in the game.

were did u get all that stuff

where you get the green ball

Where were they hard to shoot?

portals hard to shoot

:) you guys found that place?

yes

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OHH