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Ascension

This map was created for the Thinking With Portals Tenth Mapping Competition. It is based on the 11th AND 12th test chambers in Portal, where you acquire the dual portal device and perform a series of flings. This time, however, the map is reimagined with the Half-Life universe as well, just to see how it would turn out. I'm happy to say that this map is an interesting one. Hope you enjoy! :)

I wish I had some more time to polish everything and add more features, like breaking glass with the gun, but I had to do my best within a one week deadline. I changed the map name from Nostalgia to Ascension last minute lol so that's why the map name is named accordingly.

This map ended up placing 5th place out of 34 entries! Overall, I am very satisfied and had a fun time making it.

Known issues:
- The SMG1 being wacky with the firing speed and decal placements are engine issues with the weapon class
- The looping HL2 music was unintentional!

I did not create all of the custom content in this map.

Credits for custom content:

Valve:
- Some textures, models, and sounds ported over from HL2 and Portal.
- The official map (Decompiled using BSPSource[github.com])

komaokc[gamebanana.com]:
- Their "sky34" skybox texture

StefanH (Tewan):
- Squarebeams with collision

Ellie[gamebanana.com]:
- Their 4K Blood textures

𝓞𝓴𝓽𝓸𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷:
- Their fake shadow models for floor buttons
- Their parallaxed indicator lights

asd417:
- Their HEP Launcher & catcher models, textures, and sounds

Needed Sound Effects:
- Their neck snap sound effect

Cenger2121[gamebanana.com] (and Valve again):
- Combine soldier death sound and flatline sound effect merged

I'm 99% sure this is everyone. In case it is not, then please reach out, and I will fix it ASAP.