Category:Mapping
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Mapping for Portal
Beginner Topics
General
- Portal Mapping FAQ General FAQ that contains lots of useful, quick-fix information.
- Publishing A Map How to compile and package your map to distribute.
Scripting
- Bonus Map Script How to setup your map to include Challenges and be loaded through the Import Map interface.
Entity Work
- Detach Camera Tutorial How to make your cameras fall off the wall when you shoot a Portal at them.
- Door and Button Tutorial How to place iconic Portal elements.
- Emancipation Grill How to create the Material Emancipation Grill to destroy objects and Portals.
- Indicator strips How to create functional indicator strips on Output styled triggers.
- Moving Platform Tutorial How to create the moving platforms seen in Portal.
- Elevator Tutorial How to create an entrance, transfer, or exit elevator.
- Use Replace Tool How to quickly and easily replace named entities in a map, useful for those who use prefabs.
- Observation Room Light Tube Tutorial How to create the ceiling lighting in an observation room to match the single player game.
- Portal Examination Room Guide How to create observation rooms in general.
- Elevator Tutorial How to create the end-of-level Elevator.
Advanced Tutorials
Entity Work
- Box Dropper How to build a spawning tube for Weighted Storage Cubes.
- Orb Launcher Tutorial How to place and use Orb Launchers.
- Orb Catcher Tutorial How to place and use Orb Catchers.
- Logic Portals Items How to create Logic Portal setups for your maps as demonstrated in Hurricaaane's map, Logic Portals.
NPC Use
- NPC Use of Portals Tutorial How to make NPCs walk through Portals.
Miscellaneous Lists
- Texture Guide Alternate texture guide.
- Texture and Model Guide List of Portal textures and useful Portal models.
- Entity Guide Entity Guide for Portal.
- Brush Entities Brush entities used in Portal.
- Point Entities Point entities used in Portal.
Stone Knives and Bearskins
- Hammer Setup How to configure Hammer, the official Source map creator.
- Non-Portalable Walls How to create walls impervious to portals.
Pages in category "Mapping"
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