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Revision as of 17:54, 31 January 2021

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Spreadsheet plotting out the connections.

In early February 2018, it was discovered that the entity names of many objects within the Portal map files could be used to trace back earlier map layouts. This page hosts the data and offers an explanation for how it was obtained.

Overview

Within the released Portal .vmfs, many of the entities contained pre or post-fixes that referenced the map name.

The odd thing was, as discovered by Half-Alive, that many of the "map names" placed there were using obsolete versions of the layout with different names and often chamber placements. This offers a strong insight into both how chambers were named and how the chambers used to be arranged.

Locating Names

Locating the names is done in two ways:

  • Checking targetnames of various entities around the map
  • Checking the names of visgroups

By figuring out the pattern of "map references" in one particular map, it can then be deduced what this map was in that particular era of map organization.

Data

The currently-collected information about map series references.

Order: rm##

These are ordered in favor of the rm## series, which also (save one map) lines up with the lvl## series.

Map rm lab intro lvl chamber
a00 1 1 00,01
a01 2,2a 2 02,03
a02 2,3 3 3 04,05
a04 5 5 08
a03 6 4 06,07
a05 5-a 5 5-a 09
a06 5a 5a 5a 10
a07 6 6 11,12
a08 7 7 7 13
a09 7a 7a 14
a10 7b 7b 7b 15
a13 8 5 17
a15 8 2 19
a11 3 16
lab_lvl3a 3a
a14 8 4 18
escape 00 4a

Order: a##

These are ordered in favor of the a## series, the farthest left column.

Map rm lab intro lvl chamber
a00 1 1 00,01
a01 2,2a 2 02,03
a02 2,3 3 3 04,05
a03 6 4 06,07
a04 5 5 08
a05 5-a 5 5-a 09
a06 5a 5a 5a 10
a07 6 6 11,12
a08 7 7 7 13
a09 7a 7a 14
a10 7b 7b 7b 15
a11 3 16
a13 8 5 17
a14 8 4 18
a15 8 2 19
lab_lvl3a 3a
escape 00 4a