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Overview

Portal 2: Community Edition is a mod for Portal 2 developed using licensed code from Valve, that aims to make useful tweaks and additions to the game for mappers and modders. It's designed to be used as a base for custom maps and other Portal 2 mods, though it will also include its own campaign to show off some of the new features.

While there is no set release date, a P2CE developer has stated that the release target is "within 2 years", as they don't want to keep people from using it any longer then they have. ^[1]

Portal 2: Community Edition/en is based on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's engine branch. Therefore, much of the documentation on this wiki pertaining to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may also apply to Portal 2: Community Edition/en.

Features

Runs on Strata Source, a heavily modified version of the CS:GO engine branch with Portal 2's entities ported, having all of CS:GO's features plus more.

Panorama UI
Cascaded Shadow Maps
Lightmapped Ambient Occlusion

Native DirectX 11 support; DirectX 9 support has been completely dropped
TeamSpen's Hammer Addons integrated by default
Left 4 Dead 2/ Black Mesa-style workshop, which allows for asset modification as well as custom maps.
Re-enabled engine tools
Increased env_projectedtexture, now up to 8 dynamic lights can be active at a time.
Volumetric projected textures
Physically Based Rendering shader
Parallax-corrected cubemaps
Enhancements to vanilla test element entities, such as the ability to color lasers
Paint Gun, Adhesion Gel, and Schrodinger's Cube re-implemented
Ladders, both Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive style, are re-enabled
Re-Implemented Half-Life 2 weapons.
Backwards-compatibility with almost all Source Engine games, including support for Source 2013 maps and models
Toggleable b-hop and duckjump
Ability to mount and play other Source games, including Portal and Half-Life 2
Upgraded and expanded Hammer to fix crashes and instabilities.