Portal 2

Portal 2

Wheatley Saved From Space
51 Comments
JAZ  [author] 2 Dec, 2023 @ 3:13pm 
Check out the free Portal 2 VR mod here;
https://github.com/Gistix/portal2vr/releases
VR MOD video about installing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFCTqKJP80&t=1s
The video misses telling you to move the three sub folders from the extracted Portal2VR file into the regular Poral 2 folder. Or at least I had to do that to get it to work.
Oddities at present, no visible hands until you get the portal gun, but you can still pick things up.Some of my levels with paint gun not quite right...
Multiplayer not functioning yet but they are working on it.
Grande1900 21 Mar, 2023 @ 1:07am 
Note: if you get 'test chamber is unavailable,' you can either:
1:
* Load up the chamber
* Open the console
* Browse local files
* Go to ./portal2/maps/workshop
* Delete the folder that the console says contains an invalid BSP
or 2:
* Browse local files
* Go to ./portal2/maps/
* Delete ./workshop (All of your chambers will be redownloaded)
luv2play7 2 Oct, 2021 @ 1:22pm 
I! AM NOT! A MORON!
Shrtony 27 Nov, 2017 @ 12:45pm 
That moron again...
JAZ  [author] 12 Apr, 2017 @ 7:32pm 
Hammer for PeTI Dummies Pt 1: The Basics http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2735440

Below, while not specifically for Portal 2 but hammer in general, I found this guys tutorials very useful:
Source SDK Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfwtcDG7LpxF7-uH_P9La76dgCMC_lfk3
Or try searching for portal 2 hammer basics on youtube.

VTFEdit used to convert your jpg images into the format needed for use as a texture https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VTFEdit
Pakrat if you get into custom textures, you'll need this to publish the maps- https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Pakrat

Map publishing 2016 error fix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-t8lohPXf4&feature=em-subs_digest
NNinja1255 11 Apr, 2017 @ 8:18am 
links to some videos and downloads?
JAZ  [author] 3 Apr, 2017 @ 3:05pm 
Thanks! Since you have Portal 2, Portal 2 Authoring Tools should be under Library/Tools. Each version of Hammer is specific to the game it came with. Warning it takes a lot of time and learning to make maps in it. Plus Valve doesn't really bother to fix it anymore and there are problems publishing the maps. You need to download fixes, programs for making custom textures etc. for it. There are lots of Tutorials on Youtube if you really want to get into it.
NNinja1255 2 Apr, 2017 @ 2:21pm 
i like it!
NNinja1255 2 Apr, 2017 @ 2:20pm 
also this is one hell of a great map!
NNinja1255 2 Apr, 2017 @ 2:20pm 
Hammer... Doesn't that come with sfm? i have sfm
JAZ  [author] 30 Mar, 2017 @ 3:21pm 
I made the map in Hammer a.k.a. Portal 2 Authoring Tools
NNinja1255 28 Mar, 2017 @ 3:28pm 
What did you use to create this level and the other ones?
discoople 21 Feb, 2017 @ 3:55pm 
WOW that is cool!
JAZ  [author] 7 Oct, 2016 @ 7:57pm 
Just tap E quickly twice, you drop it but catch it again immediately.
fantasychica37 7 Oct, 2016 @ 3:45pm 
How can I jump and then use the screwdriver to fix the broken light bridge if I can't reach the screwdriver to pick it up when in the air and if I'm holding the screwdriver and then press E, I drop it?
JAZ  [author] 17 Jul, 2016 @ 7:20am 
Your ship (The Tardis) runs into the two cores briefly in space but must land to pick him up later. Wheatley is actually speaking over the radio at the side of the room. Press the red button sticking out of the console to land. You also need the sonic screwdriver sitting next to the radio. Then you use the buttons to activate tractor beams to pull him down from space. If you are not a Doctor Who fan, or even if you are, the video walkthrough above may help. Also on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87F4clNgm0
fantasychica37 16 Jul, 2016 @ 4:30pm 
Wheatley disappears before he asks me to pick him up and I can't find him!!
JAZ  [author] 15 Aug, 2015 @ 10:30am 
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=315716731
"Wheatley & Gallifrey Falls No More". The "Final" battle between Wheatley (with the Doctor) and the Caretaker (leading the Daleks) takes place on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey!
Based on the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special "The Day of the Doctor".
Hint - When Wheatley says let go, let go of him or die!
Time travel between past Gallifrey and the end of the Time War. Includes Antigravity swimming pools and the making of a Tardis!

This is a new map, published August 15, 2015. Due to an error, I am unable to publish new Hammer maps (I get the below error message). I was able to fool it and publish over an old test map and change it's name.

Getting error message "Failed to write File mymaps/Gallifrey.bsp to Steam Cloud! Please Verify the File name and try again." Anyone encounter this and know how to fix it? I verified the integrity of Portal 2 and Hammer, it didn't help.
JAZ  [author] 14 Jul, 2015 @ 4:06pm 
Hi Sgt Beachboard, I see what is confusing you. The "screen" is actually your view out into space. Your ship (The Tardis) runs into the two cores briefly. Wheatley is actually speaking over the radio at the side of the room. Press the red button sticking out of the console to land. You also need the sonic screwdriver sitting next to the radio. If you are not a Doctor Who fan, or even if you are, the video walkthrough above may help. Also on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87F4clNgm0
Molly 13 Jul, 2015 @ 5:54am 
the cores arent apearingon the screen and wheatley just keeps talking, could you please fix or something?
JAZ  [author] 12 Jun, 2015 @ 3:50pm 
Sorry I wasn't online a few days - The Sonic Screwdriver turns on every time you pick it up, and turns off after 3 seconds.
timidphossu 9 Jun, 2015 @ 10:07am 
How do you use the sonic screwdriver
Diesel’s deployed 10 Feb, 2015 @ 5:52pm 
The Moonbase falling apart... THAT explains why the turrets look like they're defective. THEY must be falling apart too.
ethanwiithan 8 Feb, 2015 @ 1:45pm 
thank u
JAZ  [author] 8 Feb, 2015 @ 12:38pm 
ethan - Sorry I wasn't online for a few days. You make the entity called an npc personality core in Hammer. There are also some notes in the comments of another of my maps, on how to make him "talk". See Wheatley Breaks the Tardis,
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=268474518
ethanwiithan 6 Feb, 2015 @ 5:09am 
please i really want to know how to use wheatley in my test chamber please answer my question
ethanwiithan 6 Feb, 2015 @ 5:04am 
hey question how do u use whealtey in your chamber cause i really want to put him in mine
JAZ  [author] 19 Jan, 2015 @ 3:08pm 
The Moonbase is supposed to be abandoned and falling apart, with the lightbridges malfunctioning. Read further if need help with the solution. - When the lightbridge breaks it also breaks open the way out. You should see two targets, where you need to place portals to jump and fly through the opening in the glass. One target is up high by the light and tractor beams, the other you can see looking down from there.. See the walkthrough video if that didn't help.
Diesel’s deployed 17 Jan, 2015 @ 5:29pm 
How come the light bridge connected to the cube button malfunctions after not long?
JAZ  [author] 17 Nov, 2014 @ 7:10pm 
Thanks for letting me know, I will think on that. Also I forgot to say Thanks for the compliment on the radio easter egg.
sunsette 17 Nov, 2014 @ 4:44am 
Bit of an issue with the time vortex linked portal door- I don't know if you can fix this- you can shoot portals in it, and maybe grab wheatley for a short period of time.
JAZ  [author] 16 Nov, 2014 @ 7:28pm 
If it is getting to the other side of the glass towards the Earth/tractor beams: you need to portal jump so that you go up the vent with the smoke, you will see it bends and extends through the glass. You can place a portal where the light hits below it, then jump down into a portal from either of the highest platforms.
sunsette 16 Nov, 2014 @ 5:41pm 
I found the radio easter egg- best easter egg ever- but I'm having trouble advancing past the moon part.
JAZ  [author] 16 Nov, 2014 @ 4:27pm 
AAAH! You killed your companion! LOL. Sorry about that. The Sonic Screwdriver has a fizzler that activates during the sonic sound - you can use it to kill turrets by touching them. But you need your companion, so don't use it on her or the map will end. But hint - your companion just stays there for this map. I did it to be consistent with the storyline in the other maps. Hope you are enjoying the Doctor Who theme. If you would like, Play Part 2, just published (see below).
sunsette 16 Nov, 2014 @ 12:47pm 
What the heck, I used the sonic on the companion cube and the chamber ended
JAZ  [author] 16 Nov, 2014 @ 6:08am 
Updated my first Doctor Who "Inside the Tardis"map to become Part of a collection of maps with a storyline.
In timeline order it would be
*Wheatley’s Halloween Adventure (A strange Halloween non-Doctor Who Map where Wheatley is “attacked” by the Mad Caretaker.) Made earlier, it is the first encounter with Wheatley’s Nemesis, the Caretaker.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=188617335
Doctor Who
Part 1 Wheatley Saved From Space (THIS MAP) https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333711364
Part 2 Wheatley Inside the Tardis https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=342267881
Part 3 Wheatley Breaks the Tardis
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=268474518


gremlin 10 Nov, 2014 @ 9:48am 
Just finished the map.... it was really good! Going to play your other maps too, well done!
JAZ  [author] 7 Nov, 2014 @ 3:02pm 
You are Welcome, I will answer any other questions, or the Video is also on youtube at http://youtu.be/i87F4clNgm0
Enjoy!
gremlin 7 Nov, 2014 @ 2:57pm 
oh, thanks JAZ, video wouldn't load so I couldn't check. The idea is very good- I hope the whole level will be too!
JAZ  [author] 7 Nov, 2014 @ 2:54pm 
If I understand your question - When Wheatley says Pick Me Up (voice on the radio), Wheatley means retrieve him from space. You can't grab him, you must use the buttons on the Moonbase to tractor him down from space. It is half way through the map before you actually get to him and carry him with you. See the video, if that didn't answer your question.
gremlin 7 Nov, 2014 @ 1:57pm 
This is going to sound stupid... but at the very start how do you pick up Wheatly!???
JAZ  [author] 4 Nov, 2014 @ 8:08pm 
Storyline and Walkthrough Video completed. Warning, contains some Portal 2 Ending Spoilers!
JAZ  [author] 2 Nov, 2014 @ 1:49pm 
To get to the other side of the glass section: you need to fly up the vent with the smoke, you will see it bends and extends through the glass. You can place a portal where the light hits below it, then jump down into a portal from either of the highest platforms.
JAZ  [author] 2 Nov, 2014 @ 1:48pm 
Thanks for the Advice. I made the Tardis console in Hammer, cut the shapes and used game objects. I am not sure how to share it, but Yes you can use it and give me credit. I made it for the Map "Wheatley Breaks The Tardis" and then re-used it in this one.

I had a lot of problems with the Tardis doors, and had to settle for this way. I had an issue with func_door deleting the linked_portal_door when used together. Also the custom Tardis door texture would disappear when I tried putting it on the func_door.

Can you take a screenshot of the texture that is not aligned?
Doctor_GLaDOS 2 Nov, 2014 @ 9:16am 
Yes custom sounds did work, sonic and radio. However i did not finish your map, id get stuck in the moment when you find the radio but no idea where to go next.
Few advices:
1.Align textures
2.For the doors in the TARDIS use func_door AND linked_portal_door. Or just make doors texture and when tardis lands trigger linked portal door.
3.Go to www.thinkingwithportals.com and ask questions.
BTW how did you create Tardis console ? It is incredible !
Can i use it in my maps with adding you as a co-creator (of course) ?
JAZ  [author] 2 Nov, 2014 @ 5:45am 
Thanks, One thing you can help with right away. I put a couple custom sounds in this map. Did the Sonic Screwdriver make it's sonic sound when you pick it up? Did you find the hidden radio, and did it play when you picked it up? Finally did a brief bit of the Doctor Who Theme play at the end?
Doctor_GLaDOS 2 Nov, 2014 @ 4:43am 
I really like your idea and I would love to help you somehow
JAZ  [author] 1 Nov, 2014 @ 9:07pm 
Thanks to those who have posted,
Updated a few or fixed a few minor things 11/1/14. Video including details about the storyline and walkthrough coming soon. Any new people can Post here to be kept informed.
Doctor_GLaDOS 31 Oct, 2014 @ 9:49am 
+ For the round things
pinkbussyhole 30 Oct, 2014 @ 10:28pm 
omg awesome