{"id":11696,"date":"2011-05-11T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"keep-doing-science-with-the-portal-2-authoring-tools-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11696-keep-doing-science-with-the-portal-2-authoring-tools-beta","title":{"rendered":"Keep doing science with the Portal 2 Authoring Tools beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve has opened up Aperture Science Laboratories Enrichment Centre to the general public with the launch of the Portal 2 Authoring Tools beta for PC today. Now’s your chance to be the despotic AI tyrant you’ve always known you were.<\/p>\n

The Portal 2 Authoring Tools set provides everything you’ll need to create a safe and\/or dangerous testing environment for both single-player and co-op, as well as custom character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and whatever else your rogue core module so desires.<\/p>\n

The add-on should be available to all Portal 2 PC owners, as a free download listed under the “Tools” tab in Steam. Here’s what’s it includes:<\/p>\n

– <\/span>Updated version of Hammer, the Source level editor<\/p>\n

– <\/span>Updated Faceposer<\/p>\n

– <\/span>Example maps and instances to help build new maps<\/p>\n

– <\/span>Updated suite of command-line compiling utilities<\/p>\n

Just don’t forget to include the text “TEST” on all your test chambers, so subjects know what it is. The Enrichment Centre promises to always provide useful advice.<\/p>\n

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Portal 2 Authoring tools<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, if making your own deathtraps isn’t really your thing, Valve has already announced they’re deploying the first Portal 2 DLC sometime pretty soon, which will include new test chambers and challenge modes for single- and multiplayer, and it’s going to be 100% free. <\/p>\n

Discuss the Portal 2 authoring tools<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n

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Have map editor, will test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}