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ThinkingWithPortals.com's most recent mapping contest has ended, and the winning map being Rainbow Palace by Duffedwaffe. This contest's theme was visual design in Aperture Laboratories and the map really is a great piece of work! This month's prize was a $50 gift certificate to NewEgg.com...

That has actually been addressed in the Contest thread. If someone outside the US wins, they'll get a $50 gift card to TigerDirect.com instead.

We are having our next Mapping Contest over at ThinkingWithPortals.com, and this time we have a real prize - a $50 gift card to NewEgg.com. The theme of this contest is visual appeal in the Aperture Laboratories test chambers - the best looking map will be our winner. We've had a few contests so...

Use the search keywords "modular" and "bts" (for the behind the scenes stuff). They aren't under like /portal/ or anything, so it's not that easy.

Yeah, I have noticed that texture lighting is severly downgraded from how it was in HL1. Not sure why the change or if it was intentional, but it kind of sucks. :( I'd suggest learning to use light_spot as it can be very effective, and valve uses constantly in their maps.

Search the forum, I'm sure someone has answered how to set an ai_relationship before. If not, look at the Valve Developer wiki.

Pretty sure you just need the add the npc_vortigaunt and make an ai_relationship to hate the player. Though I am pretty sure he will own your face with his lightning attacks, and you might want to lower his health because I think they, like citiziens, have like 3000 HP.

Mind sharing with the rest of the class?

lol wut? Sorry, but I don't think that holding the hand of every single person who manages to open Hammer really helps people get better. The map is far, far from great, and there's no reason to slap him on the back and give a high-five for a less than great release. Sure it is a good start...

You might ask the same question about some of the areas in Half-Life 1. It is underground in some undisclosed facility, somewhere on the planet.

Is there commentary on the challenges? I thought it only had it on the normal game?

I hadn't thought about that, that the part after the fire pit was testing GLaDOS, not us.

Except that ExitE is buggy as hell and you can make it crash faster than Portal on server. You can make Portal run in "DM", but don't expect it to last very long. Wait until we get the code in the SDK and someone can make a proper DM Portal.

Even more widely accepted because that's what the developers have said they're for in no uncertain terms.

How-to to start mapping: http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/viewtopic.php?t=23