Portal 2 SDK Tutorial 12 (Elevators)

Portal 2 Authoring Tools Tutorial 12. Shows the easy way to building elevators.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• portal
• sdk
• authoring
• tool
• tutorial
• easy
• elevator

[MrChocofreak]

THANK YOU!! but whats the difference betwee the other elevator files?

[MrJohnLanz]

@MrChocofreak the differences are purely asthetic

[MrJohnLanz]

@downedbyeskimo Hey I made a tutorial about how to take away the potato. Youtube won't let me include the link, but its tutorial 12-2 (Elevator no potato). Enjoy!

[RaiderPCGaming]

It says couldn't read c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\p­ortal2\sdk_content\maps\ytes.p­rt

what do i do?

[GravedadZer0ish]

yo tengo un problema, cuando pongo el func_instance, le pongo el nombre

y el arrival_elevator_a4_base.vmf y otros, pero no aparece, lo cierro tambien, pero no aparece

si me puedes ayudar te lo agradezco.

[SeiakuBlackheart]

so I love this tutorial, but I am having a problem....

I was able to make them across from eachother and they work fine, but the minute I separate them across a room (I have tried this is 3 different new maps) they end up failing. Either they leak somehow after constantly looking for the "leak" or when I get near the end elevator, I end up somehow 'ending' the play test. It seems to be just my departure elevator giving me problems? any help will be appreciated, THANKS FOR THESE AWESOME TUTS! :3

[MrChocofreak]

@MeJohnLanz Which one is the most asthetically pleasing? XP yes i know what asthetic means lol

[notilhenger]

This was suprisingly easy....

[MrChocofreak]

Its not working for me actually..... i tried to add the elevator to a map i already made. I put it away from the "block" and made one under like u did. but when i reloaded it it didnt change

[rtrSnickers]

hey, for some reason whenever I add the elevators+logic I get this error when compiling the map:  "could not open instance file instances/lights/bts_light_flo­urescent _01_128.vmf". There are no leaks on the map. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[nychold]

Just thought I'd add my two cents to this tutorial. I followed yours to the letter, but it wouldn't show the elevator because I put my maps in a separate directory (portal2/custom, not portal2/sdk_content/maps). If you do that, you need to make sure the path to the VMF file is correct. In my case, it was ../sdk_content/maps/instances/­...) Just a warning to people easily frustrated, like myself. :)