Portal 2: Community Edition

Portal 2: Community Edition

Developer(s)

P2:CE Team

Publisher(s)

P2:CE Team

Release date(s)

TBD

Genre(s)

Puzzle-platform

Mode(s)

Singleplayer, Multiplayer

Platform(s)

Windows, Linux

Engine

Source (Strata Source engine branch)

Steam AppID

440000

Written in

C++

Mod support

Steam Workshop

SDK

Located in /bin/win64

System requirements

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• Win 10 or later
• 2 GB RAM
• 5 GB disk space
• DirectX 11 capable
  with 256MB VRAM

DirectX 9 is not supported.

Distribution

Steam

Official website

Official Website

Links

Steam page
Official Discord
Official Wiki

Portal 2: Community Edition has been announced and is currently in development.
Watch this page, Steam News, or Steam Updates for more information.

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 than they have.^[1] They also hope that the project will enter an open beta state "within 1 year", as at that time hammer wouldn't be necessary to play the game due to both the offical and community made campaigns and standalone maps.^{[citation needed]}

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 engine 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 simultaneously.
• 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 utilizing AngelScript
• Toggleable Portalgun projectile behavior
• A new puzzlemaker, similar to the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker but with more available testing elements.

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. "We expect to have an initial release within 2 years..." #p2ce, P2CE Discord. Retrieved on May 21, 2024.