How to use Battlefield Portal

Get started with Portal

Battlefield Portal is a space where you can find player-made experiences or design your own by building off existing game modes or creating something completely new.To start using Portal, go to the Portal website and select Create New to build your own experience.

If you haven’t used Portal before, make sure to select Download SDK first. This lets you write code for your experience and make spatial, map, and level edits.

How to create a Portal Custom experience

Portal Custom experiences give you an empty template to build from. They’re more customizable than Verified Modes experiences. When you create a Portal Custom experience, you can choose all the factors that create your game. To start creating a Portal Custom experience:

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Select Create New.
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Select Portal Custom.
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Select the default template, then Start Editing.

You can then begin creating your experience.

To begin, go to the Settings tab to pick a Mode and Game Time.
Under the Teams tab, choose your max players, number of teams, and factors like human players, AI players, and squad revive settings. Some modes may limit AI player numbers.
Under the Modifiers tab, choose gameplay modifiers like Soldier, Vehicle, User Interface, and AI settings.
Select restrictions, like excluded classes, weapons, attachments, and gadgets, under the Restrictions tab.
Choose maps under Map Rotation.
Use the Rules Editor to set rules. You can use typescript scripting in the Script tab to code your own rules and game logic.

When you’re happy with your experience, select Create New to save your experience.Then, select Submit to Publishing. This makes your experience visible under My Experiences. There’ll be a moderation check before your experience is ready, which can take around three hours.

Now you’ve set up the basics of your experience, you can keep editing it in Godot, which lets you make spatial, level, and map changes. To get started:

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Run Godot. You need to have downloaded the SDK to do this.
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Select Import and open the Portal SDK folder.
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Select GodotProject > project.godot > Import.
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When Godot has loaded, select Setup.
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When that’s complete, select Scene > Open Scene.
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Go through your files and choose a map to edit.

Selecting a map will open it in the Godot game engine, where you can edit it. Use the file’s folders to add objects that already appear in a map, move objects on the map, or remove objects. When you’re done editing:

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Select Scene, then Save Scene As…
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Save your map under a new name.
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Select Export Current Level.
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Next, select Open Exports…
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Go back to the Portal website and find your experience under Drafts.
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Select it and choose Modify.
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Select Map Rotation.
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Find the map you edited on the right-side of the screen, then select the Import button to attach a spatial JSON for this map.
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Choose the file you edited, then go to the Publish tab and select Save.

To test if your edits work in-game:

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Select Portal > Browse Server > Locally Host.
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Go to My Experiences and select the experience you want to test.
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Choose Host Locally.

You can go back to Godot if you want to make more edits, but make sure to save your experience again.

For more info about using the Portal SDK tool, read the full guide.

How to create a Verified Modes experience

You can also create a Verified Modes experience on the Portal website. This lets you edit an existing game mode to suit your preferences. You can’t modify as much as Portal Custom experiences.To start creating a Verified Mode experience:

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Select Create New.
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Select Verified Modes.
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Choose a game mode you want to modify, then select Start Editing.

From there, you can edit certain game features to customize your experience.

Under the Teams tab, choose your max players, number of teams, and factors like human players, AI players, and squad revive settings.
Under the Modifiers tab, choose gameplay modifiers like Soldier, Vehicle, User Interface, and AI settings.
Select restrictions, like excluded classes, weapons, attachments, and gadgets, under the Restrictions tab.
Choose maps under Map Rotation.

When you’re happy with your experience, select Publish. Name and describe your experience, set an image, then select Create New to finish your experience. Need more help? Learn more about creating Verified Modes experiences.

How to publish your experience

Creating an experience makes it available to you. When you’re ready to share your experience with other players, select Submit To Publishing. There’ll be a moderation check before your experience is ready, which can take around three hours.

How to find your experience

Once you’ve published your experience, it’ll be ready to find in the Community menu under My Experiences.

How other players can find your experience

To let other players find your experience, you need to host the experience.

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Go to the Community menu.
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Select My Experiences.
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Select an experience.
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Choose Host.
If you’ve made a Portal Custom experience, you can choose Host Locally to test it out privately.
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Players can now find your experience using the title or experience code.

Learn more about finding and hosting Portal experiences.

How to use Battlefield Portal

Overview

Table of Contents

Get started with Portal

How to create a Portal Custom experience

How to create a Verified Modes experience

How to publish your experience

How to find your experience

How other players can find your experience

How to use Battlefield Portal

Overview

Table of Contents

Get started with Portal

How to create a Portal Custom experience

Create custom maps

How to create a Verified Modes experience

How to publish your experience

How to find your experience

How other players can find your experience