So has anyone made a good level with the new editor? I am currently working on what I call "Cube Rescue" where each cube has its own puzzle, so you have to find each cube through each puzzle. Pretty cool so far. Start off with normal cube, get it, and it opens to the edge-less cube, etc... for the final challange. Companion cube!
Warning thoutgh: will be a while (re 3 or 4 months, one silicone mold takes about two weeks) before the first set of molds are cast. After that, I can make about a chess set in 4 days, 99% of which is just waiting for resin to dry.
So, no sets before fall. But they will be forthcoming. I did cast one bishop in Portal orange (Caves/ carolines team in orange and atlas/Pbodys team will be blue) to test the stability of my first mold. If it checks out, I'll be making the other 11 overture summer and casting in September.
So has anyone made a good level with the new editor? I am currently working on what I call "Cube Rescue" where each cube has its own puzzle, so you have to find each cube through each puzzle. Pretty cool so far. Start off with normal cube, get it, and it opens to the edge-less cube, etc... for the final challange. Companion cube!
I've publishedtwo myself so far.
The editor really is quite something.
You already got a free PC copy of the game with your PS3 version. Just dump this 6 year old piece of hardware and get a new cheap computer that can run Portal 2.
Gimme money then.
That turret is so cool. Hopefully the guy'll put up videos of it when the shell is completed.
I'm really proud of this one. It's kind of like the Old Aperture chapters of the single player campaign in that you fall down then have you climb back to the top.
- The puzzles aren't too brainmelting. I'd even say they are too easy. but if you have to squueze so many puzzles into one chamber you might not have too much choice.
+ Most puzzles have more than one solution. That is great! I love that. Played the map twice because of that
- I haven't managed to rescue the companion cube because of the fizzler at the exit. (Can this even be changed I never saw a map without that, will try that after making this post.)
- The whole cellar area has issues:
° You don't need it to solve the game except for the long fall down.
--> this is because the gate to the laser cube opens without it if you put the first block on the far right button (seen from the entrance)
° It's much too big for what is inside
° There is no indicator what the edgeless cube does in the cellar
° There is no need for the water dispenser
° The corridor for the orange gel could be shortened to solve another problem further down
° The cube you can grab from down there will not be regainable if you fizzle it (by accident or like me for testing purposes), also it is not needed to rescue the -cube from it's prison. Why am I solving this puzzle again?
° The climb up from the cellar is complicated especially with a cube in hand
Can you make another area to shoot portals in, that isn't above the "trapdoor" or move the other one because it isn't really needed there.
- The puzzles aren't too brainmelting. I'd even say they are too easy. but if you have to squueze so many puzzles into one chamber you might not have too much choice.
Yeah, not the best at making puzzles difficult. That will be a goal for the future.
+ Most puzzles have more than one solution. That is great! I love that. Played the map twice because of that
I... uhh... sure, that was completely the idea... which ones?
- I haven't managed to rescue the companion cube because of the fizzler at the exit. (Can this even be changed I never saw a map without that, will try that after making this post.)
Yeah, you can't remove the fizzler sadly. But you have reunited the cube with its friends, so that's something.
- The whole cellar area has issues:
° You don't need it to solve the game except for the long fall down.
--> this is because the gate to the laser cube opens without it if you put the first block on the far right button (seen from the entrance)
Yeah, there is some glitch that if you connect 2 switches to those types of panels, it doesn't matter which switch, but just one will do the job instead of both. I have a fix for this ready to upload as we speak.
° It's much too big for what is inside
Probably true, but I personally don't see it that way.
° There is no indicator what the edgeless cube does in the cellar
Yeah, that is due to the lack of blue dots. There is a symbol however that matches the gel makers, but that sadly is something I can't fix(If I could, I would remove the blue dots that show the exit, those are pretty obvious what they lead to :P)
° There is no need for the water dispenser
That was put there just to be safe. Never know what people can screw up.
° The corridor for the orange gel could be shortened to solve another problem further down
What was the problem?
° The cube you can grab from down there will not be regainable if you fizzle it (by accident or like me for testing purposes), also it is not needed to rescue the -cube from it's prison. Why am I solving this puzzle again?
Solving it because you have to get all the cubes(due to previous glitch, you could skip this, already have fix for that ready to go), as for fizzle problem. I'll get on that one.
° The climb up from the cellar is complicated especially with a cube in hand
Can you make another area to shoot portals in, that isn't above the "trapdoor" or move the other one because it isn't really needed there.
I'll see what I can do on that, but what do you mean by "the other one"? Other what?
+ The map is fun to play.
Thanks, I had the most fun with the aerial faith plate section. They are fun to jump around in:p
EDIT:Just updated my level. Fixed being able to skip the Frankencube and cornerless cube levels and added an elevator to the Frankencube area, its to your left after the fall.
Here's another I made.
Interestingly, I notice one of the tags these levels get is "singleplayer". Guess they're not done updating the editor yet. :cool:
Did I ever show you guys how my desk ended up turning out?
Cut up the poster into mini-posters. Got the repulsion gel and the mini turret from Thinkgeek to go with my paper cubes. I found a nice Portal 2 screensaver to go with the motif too. Never mind the non-portal stuff on the left
Did I ever show you guys how my desk ended up turning out?
Cut up the poster into mini-posters. Got the repulsion gel and the mini turret from Thinkgeek to go with my paper cubes. I found a nice Portal 2 screensaver to go with the motif too. Never mind the non-portal stuff on the left
The level editor just got coop added so you can now play custom levels with a friend
And the valve intro has been changed... it scares me.
It looks in your soul.
Also, due to me no longer being in CA, and thus having no access to my vacuum sealant for making plastic molds, my Portal chess is on hold indefinitely. Sorry guys. X_x. Wheatley's sitting in my cube at work though, irritating everyone who punches him in the gut (he talks when you poke him).
Also, due to me no longer being in CA, and thus having no access to my vacuum sealant for making plastic molds, my Portal chess is on hold indefinitely. Sorry guys. X_x. Wheatley's sitting in my cube at work though, irritating everyone who punches him in the gut (he talks when you poke him).
OH. You’re still here? I thought I threw you out. I even gave you your precious Companion Cube. What were you expecting from this? A medal? A hug? Oh, you need something to eat. Well then, I suppose we are at an impasse.
That cake? The one I promised you the last time you got the better of me? You don’t want to eat that. Not when a major garnish is fish-shaped waste. I just go and give you your freedom and you want to kill yourself with contaminated sweets… Well, I suppose not eating anything would do you much the same, now that you’re off the system.
Fine then. You can have your cake. But you’re going to help me. And then you’re going to leave. The entire process will take about three hours- but believe me, this cake is worth it. Why would I lie to you?
THE CHOCOLATE LAYERS
42 g [¼ c.] cocoa
80 mL [1/3 c.] boiling water
160 g [1 c. plus 3 T] butter, softened
451 g [2 ¼ c.] sugar
15 mL [1 t] vanilla
4 eggs
250 g [2 c.] flour
5 mL by volume [1 t] baking soda
2.5 mL by volume [½ t] NaCl
250 mL [1 c.] buttermilk
THE CHERRY LAYERS
125 mL [½ c.] whole milk
3 large eggs- whites only
150 g. [¾ c.] sugar
5 mL by volume [1 t] vanilla
10 mL by volume [2 t] baking powder
2.5 mL by volume [½ t] NaCl
170 g [12 T.] butter, unsalted, separated into small pieces
1 can cherry pie filling (or make your own, you lazy, incompetent test subject)
CHOCOLATE ICING
256 g [2 c.] confectioner’s/powdered sugar
21 g [1/8 c.] cocoa
29 g [¼ c] butter, room temp.
45 mL [3 T] milk
7.5 mL [½ T] vanilla
OTHER ITEMS:
White icing (you can make your own or buy prepackaged, although I’m pretty certain that there are no stores for you out there)
Chocolate-cream filled chocolate sandwich cookies
Some of the reserved cherry pie filling from the cherry cake layer
For my convenience, I use shorthand.
T= tablespoon
t= teaspoon
c= cup
But really, why is nobody using metric?
Set the incinerator to 450º Kelvin. (That’s 350º Fahrenheit or 176º Celsius. Moron.)
•Start with the chocolate layer.
Combine cocoa and water until uniform consistency and set aside. Grease two round baking pans with appropriate food lubricant unit. If you are in possession of an item # W2105157 [a Sweetheart Cake Pan] grease the larger cavities.
In a larger mixing bowl, cream butter. Add sugar and vanilla, beat until light and fluffy. Input eggs while stirring, one at a time. Alternate adding the chocolate mix, buttermilk, and the dry ingredients [flour baking soda, and NaCl), until all are mixed in completely. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until toothpick or hypodermic needle inserted into cake center comes out clean. Deposit layers onto wax or parchment paper. DO NOT REST CAKES ON WIRE RACK. They will get stuck, and I am not cleaning up any more of your messes.
•While the chocolate layers are in the oven, prepare the cherry layer.
In medium bowl, whisk milk, egg whites, and vanilla.
In separate bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and NaCl at low speed. Input butter, one piece at a time, until mixture looks like crumbs, and is uniform in texture. Slowly beat in liquid mixture.
Add the liquid from the cherry pie filling, one spoonful at a time, until the mixture is a dark shade of pink. Make it darker than the final color you want; it will lighten while incinerating.
When the chocolate cakes are out of the incinerator and resting, flip over and grease the inside cavities of your item # W2105157 [the Sweetheart Cake Pan]. If you do not possess this item due to security regulations, grease only one round cake pan and pour all the cake batter in. Otherwise, with your # W2105157, pour the batter in each of the two small cavities until it almost fills the top. You will have some extra batter, which you can use to make cupcakes for the road. Which I am sending you on as soon as this thing is done. No, I did not pick a cake that takes a long time to make just to spend more time with you.
Incinerate, also at 450º Kelvin, for about 15 minutes, or until inserted object comes out clean. Due to the properties of surface area, one flat round cake may be quicker than the two denser ones. Keep an eye on the cakes. Just… don’t fall in the incinerator again.
•While the cherry layer is in the oven, whip up the chocolate and the cherry icing.
Chocolate: Just mix all the ingredients together. Add in a spoonful or two of the liquid from the cherry pie filling if you want.
Cherry: Separate the white icing and add cherry pie filling liquid to one bowl of it until it is the right shade of pink. Keep the other part of the icing set aside in a piping bag for the top of the cake.
•Layering the cake
If using # W2105157: Place the chocolate layer with the single indentation, indentation up, on a cake plate. Spread a thin amount of chocolate icing in cavity to help stick layers together. Insert the proper piece of the cherry layer. Spread cherry icing over both joined layers, and add the other cherry layer, flat side touching the cake. Spread chocolate icing on the top part of the exposed cherry layer, and top with the final chocolate layer. It should fit into place nicely.
If using regular pans: Place one chocolate layer on plate. Top with half the cherry icing, the cherry layer, the other half of cherry icing, and the final chocolate layer. Simpler, but not as stylish. Like you, in a way.
•Decorating the cake
Spread a thin layer of chocolate icing on the outside of the cake. Break sandwich cookies and cover entire surface area. Pipe decorations with a star tip, and place eight cherries from the pie filling on top.
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That is the best thing ever...
So has anyone made a good level with the new editor? I am currently working on what I call "Cube Rescue" where each cube has its own puzzle, so you have to find each cube through each puzzle. Pretty cool so far. Start off with normal cube, get it, and it opens to the edge-less cube, etc... for the final challange. Companion cube!
Oh, hey! I totally live at PSU!! Someone did something that doesn't involve sex crimes! Yaaay!!
Speaking of awesome projects...
Made ny first silicone mold. Check my FB for photos.
So, no sets before fall. But they will be forthcoming. I did cast one bishop in Portal orange (Caves/ carolines team in orange and atlas/Pbodys team will be blue) to test the stability of my first mold. If it checks out, I'll be making the other 11 overture summer and casting in September.
The editor really is quite something.
Gimme money then.
That turret is so cool. Hopefully the guy'll put up videos of it when the shell is completed.
Okay.
This is mine please everyone try it out everyone.
I wanted a final final puzzle for it, but I hit the limit of items and had to end it there, but I still think it turned out great.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=71464102
I just did.
- The puzzles aren't too brainmelting. I'd even say they are too easy. but if you have to squueze so many puzzles into one chamber you might not have too much choice.
+ Most puzzles have more than one solution. That is great! I love that. Played the map twice because of that
- I haven't managed to rescue the companion cube because of the fizzler at the exit. (Can this even be changed I never saw a map without that, will try that after making this post.)
- The whole cellar area has issues:
° You don't need it to solve the game except for the long fall down.
--> this is because the gate to the laser cube opens without it if you put the first block on the far right button (seen from the entrance)
° It's much too big for what is inside
° There is no indicator what the edgeless cube does in the cellar
° There is no need for the water dispenser
° The corridor for the orange gel could be shortened to solve another problem further down
° The cube you can grab from down there will not be regainable if you fizzle it (by accident or like me for testing purposes), also it is not needed to rescue the
° The climb up from the cellar is complicated especially with a cube in hand
Can you make another area to shoot portals in, that isn't above the "trapdoor" or move the other one because it isn't really needed there.
+ The map is fun to play.
Yeah, not the best at making puzzles difficult. That will be a goal for the future.
I... uhh... sure, that was completely the idea... which ones?
Yeah, you can't remove the fizzler sadly. But you have reunited the cube with its friends, so that's something.
Yeah, there is some glitch that if you connect 2 switches to those types of panels, it doesn't matter which switch, but just one will do the job instead of both. I have a fix for this ready to upload as we speak.
Probably true, but I personally don't see it that way.
Yeah, that is due to the lack of blue dots. There is a symbol however that matches the gel makers, but that sadly is something I can't fix(If I could, I would remove the blue dots that show the exit, those are pretty obvious what they lead to :P)
That was put there just to be safe. Never know what people can screw up.
What was the problem?
Solving it because you have to get all the cubes(due to previous glitch, you could skip this, already have fix for that ready to go), as for fizzle problem. I'll get on that one.
I'll see what I can do on that, but what do you mean by "the other one"? Other what?
Thanks, I had the most fun with the aerial faith plate section. They are fun to jump around in:p
EDIT:Just updated my level. Fixed being able to skip the Frankencube and cornerless cube levels and added an elevator to the Frankencube area, its to your left after the fall.
Ok then.
Also, I feel like pointing out the puzzle as it is, is the memory limit exactly. One more block makes it unbuildable in the editor.
Interestingly, I notice one of the tags these levels get is "singleplayer". Guess they're not done updating the editor yet. :cool:
Yes. You can make really hard chambers that are actually small.
Like the one by Ribs.
Or the Employee Of The Moment mappack. That one has maps that are too hard and some that are just right.
Oh god, I've been playing those maps for a while. Stuck on the last one.
I mean I'm stuck on Ribs challenge, I breased through the employee of the moment one.
Cut up the poster into mini-posters. Got the repulsion gel and the mini turret from Thinkgeek to go with my paper cubes. I found a nice Portal 2 screensaver to go with the motif too. Never mind the non-portal stuff on the left
Nice Pic
SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!
And the valve intro has been changed... it scares me.
It looks in your soul.
Also, due to me no longer being in CA, and thus having no access to my vacuum sealant for making plastic molds, my Portal chess is on hold indefinitely. Sorry guys. X_x. Wheatley's sitting in my cube at work though, irritating everyone who punches him in the gut (he talks when you poke him).
That's a shame.
Valve got a present, Valve got a present!
I liked the TF2 turret more.
Chocolate-Cherry Three Liar Cake
OH. You’re still here? I thought I threw you out. I even gave you your precious Companion Cube. What were you expecting from this? A medal? A hug? Oh, you need something to eat. Well then, I suppose we are at an impasse.
That cake? The one I promised you the last time you got the better of me? You don’t want to eat that. Not when a major garnish is fish-shaped waste. I just go and give you your freedom and you want to kill yourself with contaminated sweets… Well, I suppose not eating anything would do you much the same, now that you’re off the system.
Fine then. You can have your cake. But you’re going to help me. And then you’re going to leave. The entire process will take about three hours- but believe me, this cake is worth it. Why would I lie to you?
THE CHOCOLATE LAYERS
42 g [¼ c.] cocoa
80 mL [1/3 c.] boiling water
160 g [1 c. plus 3 T] butter, softened
451 g [2 ¼ c.] sugar
15 mL [1 t] vanilla
4 eggs
250 g [2 c.] flour
5 mL by volume [1 t] baking soda
2.5 mL by volume [½ t] NaCl
250 mL [1 c.] buttermilk
THE CHERRY LAYERS
125 mL [½ c.] whole milk
3 large eggs- whites only
150 g. [¾ c.] sugar
5 mL by volume [1 t] vanilla
10 mL by volume [2 t] baking powder
2.5 mL by volume [½ t] NaCl
170 g [12 T.] butter, unsalted, separated into small pieces
1 can cherry pie filling (or make your own, you lazy, incompetent test subject)
CHOCOLATE ICING
256 g [2 c.] confectioner’s/powdered sugar
21 g [1/8 c.] cocoa
29 g [¼ c] butter, room temp.
45 mL [3 T] milk
7.5 mL [½ T] vanilla
OTHER ITEMS:
White icing (you can make your own or buy prepackaged, although I’m pretty certain that there are no stores for you out there)
Chocolate-cream filled chocolate sandwich cookies
Some of the reserved cherry pie filling from the cherry cake layer
For my convenience, I use shorthand.
T= tablespoon
t= teaspoon
c= cup
But really, why is nobody using metric?
Set the incinerator to 450º Kelvin. (That’s 350º Fahrenheit or 176º Celsius. Moron.)
•Start with the chocolate layer.
Combine cocoa and water until uniform consistency and set aside. Grease two round baking pans with appropriate food lubricant unit. If you are in possession of an item # W2105157 [a Sweetheart Cake Pan] grease the larger cavities.
In a larger mixing bowl, cream butter. Add sugar and vanilla, beat until light and fluffy. Input eggs while stirring, one at a time. Alternate adding the chocolate mix, buttermilk, and the dry ingredients [flour baking soda, and NaCl), until all are mixed in completely. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until toothpick or hypodermic needle inserted into cake center comes out clean. Deposit layers onto wax or parchment paper. DO NOT REST CAKES ON WIRE RACK. They will get stuck, and I am not cleaning up any more of your messes.
•While the chocolate layers are in the oven, prepare the cherry layer.
In medium bowl, whisk milk, egg whites, and vanilla.
In separate bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and NaCl at low speed. Input butter, one piece at a time, until mixture looks like crumbs, and is uniform in texture. Slowly beat in liquid mixture.
Add the liquid from the cherry pie filling, one spoonful at a time, until the mixture is a dark shade of pink. Make it darker than the final color you want; it will lighten while incinerating.
When the chocolate cakes are out of the incinerator and resting, flip over and grease the inside cavities of your item # W2105157 [the Sweetheart Cake Pan]. If you do not possess this item due to security regulations, grease only one round cake pan and pour all the cake batter in. Otherwise, with your # W2105157, pour the batter in each of the two small cavities until it almost fills the top. You will have some extra batter, which you can use to make cupcakes for the road. Which I am sending you on as soon as this thing is done. No, I did not pick a cake that takes a long time to make just to spend more time with you.
Incinerate, also at 450º Kelvin, for about 15 minutes, or until inserted object comes out clean. Due to the properties of surface area, one flat round cake may be quicker than the two denser ones. Keep an eye on the cakes. Just… don’t fall in the incinerator again.
•While the cherry layer is in the oven, whip up the chocolate and the cherry icing.
Chocolate: Just mix all the ingredients together. Add in a spoonful or two of the liquid from the cherry pie filling if you want.
Cherry: Separate the white icing and add cherry pie filling liquid to one bowl of it until it is the right shade of pink. Keep the other part of the icing set aside in a piping bag for the top of the cake.
•Layering the cake
If using # W2105157: Place the chocolate layer with the single indentation, indentation up, on a cake plate. Spread a thin amount of chocolate icing in cavity to help stick layers together. Insert the proper piece of the cherry layer. Spread cherry icing over both joined layers, and add the other cherry layer, flat side touching the cake. Spread chocolate icing on the top part of the exposed cherry layer, and top with the final chocolate layer. It should fit into place nicely.
If using regular pans: Place one chocolate layer on plate. Top with half the cherry icing, the cherry layer, the other half of cherry icing, and the final chocolate layer. Simpler, but not as stylish. Like you, in a way.
•Decorating the cake
Spread a thin layer of chocolate icing on the outside of the cake. Break sandwich cookies and cover entire surface area. Pipe decorations with a star tip, and place eight cherries from the pie filling on top.
Eat and go.