Very nice map work. Good puzzle - took a while to solve getting the cube behind the fizzler. Thanks for creating. Will follow...

Very well done!

Very fun and nice map brooo!

Portal Revolution sure revolutionized this concept!

Fascinating! Would be great to see this concept expanded.

lots of gel action in that map :o)

Good puzzle, thanks!

that was tricky.

This is amazing, the ending was really clever. The challenge was fun. The animation when you went through the vent was astounding

New mechanic, nice! =)

Cool chamber, I enjoyed the ride in the tube =)

Fun map. Thanks!

how can i get the thing to create what the vent did

Best. Map Ever. Infinity/100

Dice your first map I knew you were a good creator. Nice work

Very nice idea.

I enjoyed this, thank you for the good time! :-)

I really like that the player could go through the vent. That being said, you should change the flip tiles so they flip back to a portable surface when you block the laser instead of when you get up on the platform with the laser. Since the panels fliped when I entered that room, I was able to get gel close enough to the exit platform to jump there.

On my first run the cube and I entered the gell tube but only I came out. Dropped another cube and was going to try again but the first cube ( blued ) entered the room! Now had two cubes??
Tried to repeat but cube kept exiting the tube with me. Was fun, Enjoyed, Thank you.

Original, great work. Thanks.

First thing I noticed was the companion cube behind the elevator XD Man alive, I got my hopes up... Anyways awesome chamber!

my first map download (its has been a year)

@Kukulkahn
@Mr. P. Kiwi
According to BEN 77, who had a fan push gel a bit, the Point_Push entity pushes gel!

Loved everything except GLaDOS's death threat...
4.9/5

Fun use of an infequent feature.

@Sleter
Must be connected to the fact GLaDOS didn't play her line (the door opens when she finishes it) Try changing the language, maybe there is no translation to these lines in your language...

The trigger that opens the entrance door is broken:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ11j5wQCMc

Nice puzzle. Very funny. Thanks.
I recorded my gameplay (valve DEM file format): Download [dl.dropboxusercontent.com]. Comments inside video.

Turrets highly explosive. Handle with care

Awesome! 4.5/5

Thanks P. Kiwi ! The problem is that i'm not actually making an isolated map, but I'm trying to integrate a full vaccum tube set in the BEE2 mod for their use with the puzzle editor. I saw what you did with the particle effects and logic branches. This is a very beautiful solution but i can't integrate it to make custom vactube rides with pieces in the editor, that would just be impossible. Though, there's no doubt i'll be using this when editing isolated hammer maps!

I had another idea of simulating this gel transportation effect by using kind of an invisible prop_tbeam or something, but that would be difficult and buggy for shure. Do you have any other ideas?

Again, good job, keep working!

@Kukulkahn - You might also want to explore prop_paint_bomb s. You can say they act like normal prop_physics, so it might be easier for you to use them. However they will not appear as a stream of gel (like in my map) but rather big gel blobs, separet of each other.

Looking forward to see what you come up with,
Happy mapping :)

@Kukulkahn - Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the maps.

Sorry this took so long (I was away for the last week). Anyways, in Diverity Gels the gel is what you might call "cinematic". It's not really physics at work there: I used a particle effect (blob_curve_blue) which makes the gel look like it's being sucked through the tube. When you turn the laser off the particle stops playing and a real info_paint_sprayer starts, well, to spray paint. This is the only way to make a stream of gel travel through vents.

You might also want to read this and this .

Hello Kiwi, first of all, amazing maps !! Your vactubes are incredible.
Just one question, I've been trying my own vactubes, but looking all around in hammer only managed to transport physic objects, not gels. It doesn't work with normal trigger_push or similar. I'm becoming crazy to make gels work out with tubes. Can u tell me what kind of brush/entity did u use to make gel transportable in the tubes??

Thank you so much

I found the Companion Cube as I was looking at your map in hammer, so I chould learn something.(I'm not telling where it is!)

While simple, it is a really good concept. I love the idea of the Pneumatic Diversity Vents transporting Gels and the player, rather than them simply ridding an area of turrets. You're really on to something and I'd love to see you develop it into more advanced maps. Bravo. I wish I had your Hammer skills.

It was quite an easy map, but very beautiful. Here's my blind playthrough of it: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/ptal2/diversitygels-drpkiwi-blind-by-bisqwit.zip

Nice map, thanks! Maybe too easy.

Маленькая простенькая карта,но выглядит неплохо.
Good map! Thx!

Fun and enjoyable,thanks.

@Roflpwninator - I'm bad at designing difficult puzzles. I like to keep mine short, easy and innovative. However now I am making longer puzzles (as they are really big, in terms of actual size of the chamber, but not too hard if you find creative solutions for them).
Also, Bounce Maneuver has been taken down for the moment because it will be featured in the Back-Stock mod that might be released in the distant future.

Oh and where is Bounce Maneuver? The link did not work - is that one still in progress?

A fun short puzzle. The stairs with the two steps were completely necessary =). I liked the extra touches, like the hole behind the water pipe.

For both of your maps, it looks like a lot of work went into the custom effects for such short puzzles - are you planning to make the actual puzzles longer eventually? I have the opposite problem - I made a huge puzzle, but am still learning how to do the custom effects =)

Love the touch of HER voice!

Very good test element. A little audio from Glados is always a nice touch.

Now, why are the fans making good use of a test element that was scrapped in the final release, like you? I yearned for this element to be in the final release!

Very cool,and new :)

Mr. P. Kiwi
thankyou for your reply.
interesting answers.
next time I see a Diversity Vent, I will take nothing for granted, thank's to your feedback.

@mood3rd - There are some lines recorded for Portal 2 that were left out, like the voice lines you heard in my map.
About your second question - Diversity Vents are not as simple as other test elements. They are constructed, mainly, by invisible entities which give them the properties you need for your puzzle - In this case I made gel flow through it, you can make (in hammer) the vent to do whatever you'd like...

great stuff.
Glodos said she can kill me for being a liar.
did you do that, or did you find it already recorded somewhere ?
good to hear new comments anyway.
good map.
dispite easy rating, good puzzle.
good ride.
will turrets survive a diversity vent ride ?
please try my 2nd map.
"a simple turret problem 2"
http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=80012838

Hey loved the map. Thank you fpr this map!
I've got a map of my own I'm trying to get out there a bit, try it and leave a comment :)

Strategy 4: Knockoff