You can actually get the start door to open back up again

https://youtu.be/C3iaJWGdEnY

looks fantastic but I don't play this game to hunt for which white surface is actually portalable. I do adore the aesthetic though

Sick!

nice test designes!

@validate(value): Thanks for playing te map :) And thanks a lot for such a contructive criticism, I really appreciated it, we all love to read whatever criticism because that's the way to become better puzzlemakers.
In my defense, I'll only say that this is a version of the orginal mal, just adding a movement I thought it could be inteesting because it's somewhat crazy to think it out, the rest is just make up.
Thanks for passing by to leave the comment! Cheers!

I noticed ratings are well down on this map compared to others. If wondering why (considering that difficult but possible puzzles are normally desired) here's my take. The start makes me sick, literally. It takes so long, just why include it? The "dilapidated" theme/look is interesting to walk through for a while but when you have such a busy map, it's way too distracting. It's almost impossible to tell which walls are portalable and which are not. There are buttons and other things hidden amongst a jungle. Challenges and puzzles should be enjoyable. Trying to work out logic looking at things that can hardly be discerned from the environment is just a pain. A solid thumbs down from me, but also hope something positive comes from my appraisal above. I know it can, because I can see you are keen and able to make difficult but possible puzzles.

Unintended solution (second part) https://youtu.be/DsShy3O70tE

Easy ninja (first part) https://youtu.be/1tKSsFGFheE

Brilliant map. It made my brain hurt.

it extremely lags, but its a good job :D

That would have tekaen me weeks to solve, Bravo!

This is extremely well made, i love it.

Ninja Solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQzFe7JkzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVQubRIF540

Finally I had the time and inspiration to finish the song I made for the intro to this map. For those interested, it's available to download at my SoundCloud [soundcloud.com] page. I hope you enjoy it.

2/2 Compared to your walkthrough, I've never seen that white surface to make the big jump on 1st part (the one you're reaching by walking on the very end corner of floor and jumping). And I've tried a few times to throw that cube then decided to find another way..

The same map with more easy-access portal shots would have been a favorite, because, as I stated before, puzzle are great. I have friends playing portal 2 who think a jump in main campain is difficult because you have to portal somewhere while moving...

1/2 Well, I don't know. Of course it's thumbs up, because the design is awesome and the puzzle are complex. But I felt a bit bad with the skillshots/moves we had to do here.. My F6-F7 combo has never been used that much (or maybe in your other map "oxygen station"). I just can't portal a surface at the other side of the map while moving vertically at high speed, and as the design is quite heavy, FPS go down slightly and this is even more difficult. For the first part, I went up finnaly with funnel, and for the last part I threw the cube in goo from funnel place and stuck myself against the wall, preventing me to enter the portal I needed to open the last fizzler.

WHAT A HARM TO MY COMPUTER LAGING GLICHING OMG jk still not bad what was the epic music doing at the end?

Oh, that's clever.
P.S. I'm Test Subject #54067 on TWP.
P.P.S. Are you still working on The Enceladus Initiative? You haven't updated the moddb page in so long!

@dante: yes, I use point_viewcontrols prented to func_tracktrains to create the camera movement; the custom text banners fading-in/out are just a custom animated textures (it has 60-100 frames inside) that I use on func_brushes parented to the camera as well ;)

How do you do cinematic intros with custom text in Hammer? Is it a point_viewcontrol? If so, how do you get the custom text.

Exceptionally well made map both in visuals and puzzle, although the funnel bugged out on me a lot.

K, lo siento

@grossedout5: Good mood always! But dude, please try to reach me using other way :P A comment on my profile or writting to me on TWP or moddb... But not in any of my maps' threads, in order to not spam the maps' discussions ;) Thanks

Thanks!

@Mr. Narrator: I grabbed it from DevianART to make my overlay. It was made by a guy called Daveastation (look on the credits). Link below:

Drawing of Chell [daveastation.deviantart.com]

Hey where can I find that awesome art from the last screenshot?

Brilliant map,enjoyed every part of playing this map,thumbs up.Can u try mine
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=218380323

Omg, this map is fascinating and gorgeous. With addition, the solution is brilliant!.
Just a little unsastification due to the last part you need to fling the cube to fizzle . Overall, this will be one of my favourite at all times.

Last part of the map required way to much skill and timing instead of thinking, i disliked it.
The first part was good, the easter egg beautiful.

That "one move" with the "one tricky shot" that must be perfectly times and aimed. That is what confounded me for 3 days. I thought about it - but never tried it 25 times in a row to make sure I got it. Finally I watched the video - then tried the move over and over - finally got it on the 17 try (approx the 17th try). That beginning part with the extra roow off to the side made White Room - which was already great - FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what is the name of the intro song? Great map as well!

nice easter egg

I watched the video and I have absolutely no idea what was going on there at the end.

Nice map! I played the file version and found some weird ways to complete this myself but you probably fixed them. What is the new on the E. I. (I can spell for my life)???????????/

Not Sure If i did it the intended way though

I Love It!!!

@cyhborg: I forgot to reply about that... I don't think I did anything against the rules: for the broken glass I added a plant to give the impression that you can't shoot portals through; the little holes on the upper floor could be "too little" to allow a shot too. And about that white wall you mention, there is a big plant there, so I avoided portals there to make it more realistic not the opposite ;) (and I prevented a portal bumping there that led to an unintended solution) Also there are many func_noportal_volumes on those floors where there are groups of broken tiles... and that is how it should be done, otherwise it would look weird when you open portals and the broken tiles stay in mid-air. I've tried to break the tiles in one or other way to always justify this though, and I think every no-portalable surface has a logic reason.

@Gemarakup: iirc, the white surface to the left of the pedestal button that controls the cube dropper doesn't allow portals even though it seems large enough. I could be wrong though. And yes, I know there's a fizzler there but portal shots can't go through the broken glass to hit the white surfaces just before the fizzler. They seem to stop dead at the glass as if there's an invisible wall.

@cyhborg: thanks for playing, mate! Yeah, there are multiple ways to get up to the upper level and to bring the cube there... About the second part, hehehe... you monster! I unbound keys "a" and "d" to avoid such a maneuver, but I simply didn't think of key "w" :D I'll add it to the next update... Cheers!

Also, the solution videos have been added here.

@AD_79: Thanks for commenting, and I'm happy that you liked it. It's a bit twisted but once you have mess around with it for some time, the solutions come easily ;) Some hints have been already said here, but for the first part, check out the grate paralel to the fizzler and think that even if you move the cube from the button, that grate is a gap to shoot portals through ;)

About the scanline effect, there is a stock texture called dev/dev_scanline ; it's the only used by the tv monitors in Portal2 although you can't use by default as it hasn't got any .VMT file stocked. I'll write a pm to you to explain a bit more in detail ;)

And finally, as Gemarakup said, maybe you are not playing with the Shader Detail settings to High and you are only watching a pre-rendered version of the water material, it's highly recommendable to play my maps on HIGH settings ;)

Also, Cyhborg, there's a fizzler behind the broken glass.

Cyhborg, the slanted portal surfaces aren't meant to be used. (I thought it was obvious). Jose, I think you should link the video here.
AD_79, the blue water is probably dependant on what graphics settings you have, because it's a custom texture.

Minor crit: the broken glass doesn't allow portals to be shot through it, so it kinda goes against what is established in the regular portal "rules". Also, some white surfaces don't allow portals.
PS I couldn't get to the very end of the easter egg area. Solution please :)?

Phew! I had to sleep on this twice, once for each section. Fantastic work. I solved it slightly differently than the official solution, though. In the first part I used the funnel to get up to the high platform . In the second part , since I'm not very good at throwing cubes, it didn't occur to me to throw the cube at the fizzler to generate a new one. Instead, I placed the cube in front of the portal I was going into and, once on the other side (in the tractor beam), I looked up and pressed the forward button so that I'd get stuck in the broken bits in the ceiling. This would allow me to remain in the beam while the new cube travels to the button .

Also, the liquids appear somewhat blue. Is that how it's supposed to be?

This is a great little map, although I haven't solved it yet. It's clear you put a lot of time into this. I especially liked the 'intro' part. One question, though. How did you do that scanline effect at the beginning? I'm planning on using that in a future map, to show the view of an area through the 'eyes' of a security camera.

@General_Lecter: thanks for the positive comments on the map! :D I hope that you keep on trying to solve it with the hints Toncica threw ;) I've changed the twp link to the topic, instead of the map's download page because you're right, it always returns an "Access Denied" mess.

@Prototype: haha... good finds! :D Thanks, dude. I'll fix those little gaps in the next update ;) Cheers!

I have found a little hole that allows for an easier solution to the first part. Here is my solution: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cu4lnw4devyg857/whiteroomremix.dem The graphic design is awesome and the puzzles are challenging too, great map.

I was struggling with the first part myself, it was a tough one. Somehow I was expecting a completely different solution to that. Only when I started to think about which kind of familiar approach - not a carbon copy - could be done, the solution became apparent. So it helped me in a way.