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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.