Category:Portal level design

Getting started

Entity Creation

• Controlling portals

Design

• Design and Detail
• Detailing metal walls
• Portal Mapping FAQ
• Logic gates

Constructing Elements

Level Creation Tutorials

• Beginner Portal Map Tutorial
• Box dropper
• Button and door
• Getting the portalgun at the start of a map correctly
• Creating a door frame using the clipping Tool
• Complimentary Victory Lift
• Creating a Portal AI Voice
• Custom Testchamber signs
• Elevator
• Ending a map
• Energy ball launcher/catcher
• Fizzler
• Glitch Prevention
• Incinerator
• Indicator lights
• Moving platform
• Moving stairs
• Multiple buttons for a door
• Observation hallway
• Poison Water
• Radio
• Recessed lights
• Rotating portalgun
• Security camera
• Switch
• Turrets
• Turret "attack" door
• Wake-up bed
• NPC use of Portals

Scripting

• Bonus Maps
• Challenge scripts
• Making GLaDOS speak

Modding

• Portal mod template
• Adding a logic_choreographed_scene into Portal
• Env_fire fix

Additive Information

• List of Portal Entities
• List of useful Portal models
• List of Portal Particles
• List of Portal soundscapes
• List of graffiti textures from Portal

External Links

• ThinkingWithPortals.com Portal mapping community