Portal 2

Portal 2

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How-to: have your own picture as workshop thumbnail for your map.
By greykarel
When you publish a map from in-game editor, the game creates a thumbnail that shows a view of your map in the editor.
You can add some other pictures later but it is impossible to change the thumbnail. The only way to have your own picture
as a thumbnail is to force overwrite it during publishing. That is not that big deal, indeed.
   
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How-to: have your own picture as workshop thumbnail for your map.
1. There is no difference if you are only about to publish your new map or if your map is already published. The only important thing is that you should still have your map in game editor so that you can republish it.

2. Once you have built your map, take a screenshot of your chamber and save it in ...Steam/steamapps/common/portal 2/portal2/puzzles/(long number string) folder. Then in that folder find the file "untitled.jpg", delete it and rename your screenshot as "untitled.jpg". Then right-click on it, go to properties and check "read only" box.

3. Open your map in the game editor and publish/republish it.

4.(optional) To have your screenshot as a preview picture of map in the editor: create a copy of your screenshot (now named "untitled.jpg"). Find your puzzle files (.jpg and .p2c files with long number name). You may detect the files you need by previewing picture or right-clicking on the window, then clicking "sort" and "by time". The first two files in raw is for your map. The .jpg file represents preview picture of your map in editor. Delete this file and rename one of your screenshot copies with its name.
35 Comments
[WindVex] 8 Jun @ 6:25pm 
Who knew a guide from a decade ago was gonna be useful in le modern day
Thank you for making the guide, this helped me tremendously. :steamhappy:
BraveCaperCat 27 Dec, 2024 @ 3:59am 
@real vsauce, Should be exactly the same, you will have to copy the image being used instead of the screenshot.
Orangecap 26 Jul, 2023 @ 2:20pm 
okay, but does this work for custom images (not screenshots) too?
Shotkey 13 Aug, 2021 @ 12:57am 
Спасибо, очень помогло руководство.
Один раз был странный глюк: файл с числовым названием (для редактора) создался автоматически, после этого произошла ошибка публикации. Теперь картинка в редакторе появляется автоматически при публикации теста (пункт 4 не нужно делать)
Stane 17 Jul, 2020 @ 2:02am 
Thanks ^^
Unowninator 25 Jun, 2020 @ 9:52pm 
I change them to Read Only, but the picture keeps changing to something else anyway. WTF?
Overthought 8 Jun, 2020 @ 1:42pm 
ApertureRemedy's solution worked for me as well! Thanks!
greykarel  [author] 29 Sep, 2019 @ 6:33am 
@Freya За 5 лет ты первая жалуешься на то что это руководство приводит к крашу игры, что в принципе не возможно. А твои симптомы очень напоминают этот случай .
Freya 28 Sep, 2019 @ 4:36pm 
Всё сделала как написано. Теперь вообще не могу запускать камеры и редактировать или создавать свои. Игра крашит и после проверки, 34 файла не проходят проверку. Перекачивает их и опять ошибка и 34 не прошли проверку.
Что ты мне насоветовал! Из-за тебя не работает игра теперь!
CaliberPlex 1 Jul, 2019 @ 8:17pm 
Thank you so much <3