Discouragement Field

The Discouragement Field or Death Field is a special energy field in Portal 2 which blocks only the player, not other objects. It can be considered as the counterpart to the Emancipation Grid. Collision with the field has a similar effect to the discouragement beam; when touched the player takes damage and bounces away, but prolonged contact kills the player.

Instance

Death Field example.

• Download these two instance files: death_field_128x128.vmf and death_field_256x256.vmf and put them into your instance folder under instances\gameplay. (If only text comes up and you can't download it, press ctrl+A, copy it, paste it in Notepad, and save as death_field_128x128.vmf under All Files (for the 128x128 one)).
• Create a new func_instance in your map, select VMF Filename and click Browse... on the right and select one of the two death field instances.
• The Discouragement Field is now ready and active on default. If you want to activate or deactivate the field, follow these steps:
  • Give the func_instance a name (Fix Up Name), for example death_field_1.
  • Create a trigger or button somewhere and give it these outputs:

	My Output	Target Entity	Target Input	Parameter	Delay	Only Once
	OnTrigger	death_field_1	instance:enable;Trigger	<none>	0.00	No

(for activation)

	My Output	Target Entity	Target Input	Parameter	Delay	Only Once
	OnTrigger	death_field_1	instance:disable;Trigger	<none>	0.00	No

(for deactivation)

Manual Creation

Todo: Doing this

The material for the field itself is effects/laserplane. The sides are the fizzler (dynamic or static) model, skin 2.

Unfortunately, the laserplane material looks strange when activated or deactivated.