Portal 2 Puzzle Maker/Piston Platform

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The Piston Platform in the Puzzle Maker.

The Piston Platform in-game.

Piston Platforms are testing elements in Portal 2. They move vertically in 128 unit increments, up to a limit of 384 vertical units. Piston Platforms can be placed in goo (to make a retractable bridge for instance).

Item Properties

Entity Cost: 44

Item Properties

Entity Cost: 8

• Connect to...
  • Opens a pointer to select a test element that activates the Piston Platform.
• Remove connections
  • Shows existing connections to other test elements and allows to delete these.
• Delete item
  • Deletes the Piston Platform.
• Portalable
  • If checked, the small frame that is left around the base of the Piston Platform becomes white. If unchecked, it becomes black. This is only a change of the appearance, it has no effect on the gameplay.
• Pull surface
  • Moves the selected Piston Platform further into the room together with the wall/ceiling/floor block behind it.
• Push surface
  • Pushes the selected Piston Platform out of the room together with the wall/ceiling/floor block behind it.

Editor Adjustments

• The height the platform raises to can be adjusted by dragging the arrow above the platform up and down.

Limitations

• The raised height of the platform cannot be altered from the value set in the editor via inputs.
• Be wary of exceeding the item limit when using Piston Platforms--they consume the most entities of any testing element.