The Meat Pack. Coming in Summer 2011. This is Map 2. Map 1 will teach you how to solve Map 2. Map 3 will twist around what Map 2 meant. Originally I wanted to make it about the industrialization of food / food science, but I need some decent props models of raw beef slabs. I think the env_projectedtexture spotlight might be too strong, still figuring out how to use it.
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Quote from KungFuSquirrelHey, look at that, an SDK release
They released it early just to spite me! Clearly.
What constraint for the Portal Challenge? 1024^3 would work great, but we don't want to do it again? Or maybe someone could make a reflective cube model replacement that resembles the MapCore logo, and your map has to use that cube somehow... and stuff?
Quote from Senturabut brushes have nothing to do with the bsp structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning
Yes, yes, we all know what BSP actually is
But in this forum, "BSP" has evolved as slang for "brushwork." It's been in usage for a while...
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and that concludes this public service announcement
Quote from instaI think he was speaking of brushes you big silly billy!!!!
SENTURA YOU ARE SO SILLY
You'll also want the func_door_rotating to start in the "closed" position. If you want to animate, say, a pipe cap model, then make the func_door_rotating invisible (texture it with NODRAW) and parent a prop_dynamic or prop_dynamic_override to it.
Mapping for Portal 2 has made me realize how important BSP is for it... I can't imagine prototyping this in an editor with crappy BSP or grayboxing tools. In that sense, tools-wise, it's a perfect fit for Source. Maybe BSP isn't as dead as everyone thinks it is.
If it's, say, three weighted buttons ala Portal for example, you can also use 3 logic_branch and 1 logic_branch_listener.
Well if you do manage to get it working with the Alien Swarm SDK, everything pretty much works. The entities are amazing too; no weird combinations of entities or prefabs to mess with, like in Portal 1. Just plop down a "prop_tractor_beam" or "prop_button" or something and BOOM it works. I prototyped a map in 5 minutes. Really painless stuff.
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Only weird non-intuitive thing: not sure if this is an engine change or a weird quirk of the AS tools because they run vbsp with -alldetail, but you have to surround your map with a giant func_brush room called "structure_seal" to get it to compile
Looks great, but really cookie-cutter / perpendicular. A lot of TF2 maps usually make a point to avoid staying on the grid with 90 degree angles; especially Gravelpit and others, they have so many buildings rotated at different angles, etc. It feels more natural and less "game-y" and opens up cool new line of sight tactical opportunities. Ditch the grid!
Post-SDK? You mean in 6 months? Pffft. That's no fun. Smell ya' later.
I propose a Portal 2 map compo. The unofficial hacky SDK is getting pretty decent and most of the entities have been documented:
http://www.facepunch.com/threads/108133 ... FGD-Thread
http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=454972
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There would be two entry categories: single player and co-op maps.
We should make PhilipK or Minos or someone whip up a set of special MapCore chamber textures... I'm already getting bored of the existing visual style in these first gen custom maps. It's optional but highly encouraged that you use the MapCore textures.
Then, we combine all the maps into one big map pack of custom Portal 2 goodness. (Or ideally, make it a Portal 2 mod that you just unzip to \SourceMods\... can we do that? No one likes fiddling with consoles.)
Finished it. Amazing. I love how it's all about the level design --
especially when Wheatley gives you all those crappy levels and then steals someone else's, sooooo meta
Ctrl + E = center 2D grid views on selected object
Ctrl + Shift + E = teleport 3D camera view to selected object
Shift = clone object
Whoa, Portal 2 assets kinda look better in UDK than in Source...
"High Noon." Source, 2008.
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Currently trying to revamp it and make an actual level out of it. EVERYTHING MUST BE IN ONE BSP.
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Well, it was only memorable because they all choked on water / ice cream.
Finished AssCreedBros. Good stuff except the insta-fail missions. "Everything is permitted," huh?
I'm glad I got to see Kristen Bell's character stabbed.
Quote from JeanPaulOh trust me dude, that chapter has been seriously overhauled since you left.
Thank god. I always thought it needed more torus. 
env_projectedtexture is kind of wonky in the current engine, you'll have to wait for Source 2011 (Portal 2) for decent projected light support
Quote from JeanPaulI did some minor things in Anomalous Materials.
MY BABY!!! (... whom I gave up for adoption, I guess)
