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

In-Development (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

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 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 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.