Portal 2: Community Edition

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 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.

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.

Planned Features

• Most Mapbase features will be implemented
• Toggleable legacy movement (/)
• Improved gel and portal color customization
• Expanded VScript API, along with a new scripting system utilising AngelScript
• Toggleable Portalgun projectile behavior

Media

Screenshots and videos of P2CE can be found on its Steam store page.

Team

Portal 2: Community Edition is developed by the P2CE Team. An up-to-date member list can be found here.

Gallery

See also

• Portal
• Portal 2
• Mapbase, a similar project for Half-Life 2 (developed from Valve's public Source 2013 Singleplayer repository, and therefore is open-source; compatible with more older DX9 hardware)
• TeamSpen's Hammer Addons, a set of Hammer improvements added to P2CE by default
• Portal 2 Level Design
• List Of Portal 2: Community Edition Entities

External links

• Official site
• Issue tracker
• Discord server

References

References
1. "the plan is to get p2ce released pretty much no matter within 2 years..." #beta-talk-1, P2CE Discord. Retrieved on September 10, 2025.