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.
Features
- Built off the
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive engine branch with Portal 2's entities added in, including all the newer features.
- Panorama UI
- Cascaded Shadow Maps
- Lightmapped Ambient Occlusion
TeamSpen's Hammer Addons integrated by default- Re-enabled engine tools
- Increased
env_projectedtexturelimit - 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 reimplemented
- Ladders re-enabled
Planned Features
- Most
Mapbase features will be implemented - Toggleable legacy movement (HL2/P1)
- Improved gel and portal color customization
- Expanded VScript API
Media
Screenshots and videos of P2CE can be found on its Steam store page.
Documentation
The P2CE wiki can be found here. It currently explains some of the new tools and entities, and will eventually document new VScript features once they are implemented.
Team
Portal 2: Community Edition is developed by Chaos Initiative.
The team consists of:
- CitadelCore (project founder, infrastructure maintainer, core Chaos Engine maintainer)
- JJl77 (lead programmer, Linux port maintainer, core Chaos Engine maintainer)
- EchoesForeAndAft (programmer, graphics programming)
- blenderiste09 (programmer, speedrun feature support, quality of life)
- mlugg (programmer, Linux port developer, speedrun feature support)
- BonnyAnimations (animator, 3D artist)
- craftablescience (programmer, web developer, UI/UX designer, open source tools developer)
- Mystical Λce (level designer, public relations)
- Frosti (artist, level designer)
- don simone (level designer)
- Ferni (media designer, level designer)
- Baguettery (website designer)
- -Smaed (programmer)
- l3ops (programmer)
- Demez (programmer)
- Erin (UI developer, open source tools developer)
- BenVlodgi (programmer)
- Luke18033 (scripting support, GitHub moderator)
- ThePiGuy24 (infrastructure support, systems administration)
- _distrilul (GitHub moderator, Discord community manager)
See Also
Portal- Portal 2
- Mapbase, a similar project for Half-Life 2 (developed by an entirely separate team without engine license; open source)
- TeamSpen's Hammer Addons, a set of Hammer improvements added by default
- Portal 2 Level Design
- List Of Portal 2: Community Edition Entities
