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Is it possible to install the Portal 2 authoring tools without Portal 2 installed. Otherwise, would it be fool steam into thinking I have?

The reason I'm asking is that I have Portal 2 installed for mac. However I can also run Steam through wine, to play the games only available for windows. Now I want to install the Portal authoring tools on the wine steam, but Steam wants me to download Portal 2. Could I point Steam to my mac version or do I need PC version for it to work?

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    I'll not post this as an answer as I haven't done the legwork, but: It is my understanding that the authoring tools require access to game assets (models, etc.) in order to function and that the only way to get these assets is to install the game. – Ben Blank Oct 17 '11 at 18:30
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If you have enough HD space you can just copy your portal 2 game folder from your pc onto your mac, at least it will save you the time downloading it :)

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  • Sorry, have you tried copying about a 5gb game to another computer, this answer only answers how to lose your time? – Bailey Rowland Jun 16 '13 at 11:06
  • 5gb is nothing, stick in a usb3 pen drive, job done in under 20 mins, the question was how to do something, not how to do something fast. – David Craig Jun 16 '13 at 21:40
  • under 2o minutes, roflmao, it takes me a hour. – Bailey Rowland Jun 17 '13 at 9:47
  • then perhaps you have usb1,2 or a slow/dying harddrive, regardless this is offtopic to the question, the question being how to do something and not how long something will take to do :) – David Craig Jun 26 '13 at 19:21
  • OK. This will now end. – Bailey Rowland Jun 26 '13 at 21:50

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