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Boot to the Cube

My second Hammer-forged PeTI map, now revised and with extra GLaDOS flavor. Basic puzzle structure sketched out in PeTI, then detailed and optimized in Hammer. At its heart this is a cube-transportation puzzle with a few twists, some gel use and creative portal placement required. With so many open portal surfaces there are multiple ways to get most of the cubes, but one easy, "optimal" way for each.

Revision 2:
- Added a player clipping brush covering the faith plate on the wall to prevent the player getting into an inescapable faith plate loop. You must be a cube to ride this ride, kids. ;)
- Added noportal volumes to the BTS areas to prevent players from portaling up to them. Gaze upon them from afar--they're not so pretty if you actually manage to get up there.
- Added glass covers over the sides of a couple of the steps to prevent players rebounding off the bounce gel when they're just trying to climb the steps.
- Minor texture tweaking to hint at solutions.

Revision 3:
- Added situation-appropriate demotivators from everyone's favorite passive-aggressive homicidal AI, GLaDOS.
- New BG music.
- Those glass covers didn't work as well as hoped. Removed them and instead just made the ceiling above the steps a NPS so they won't get painted. It takes a few moments longer to get up there, but no more frustrating bounce gel deaths.
- Made a column of tiles on the back wall NPS so that the player can't fling the first cube into the (then-unreachable) faith plate loop.
- Added more texture hints.
- Significantly revamped signage to better guide the player.
- Fixed an obscure but visible nodraw surface.