Portal 2: Community Edition
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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, the project is planned to enter an open beta state in Q1 2026, as the game should be possible to navigate by players without any prior modding knowledge. Keep in mind, however, that the exact date is uncertain, and this prediction may change.
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 the latest version of 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
- New rendering and lighting technique, similar to Deferred lighting & shading, allowing multiple dynamic lights to be rendered with little performance hit.
- 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.
- 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 and entities.
- 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
- Volumetric projected textures
- 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
External links
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
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