Habzs wrote:
FelixGriffin wrote:

Habzs: If you set a portal to rendermode 10 it will redirect things without requiring the fancy lighting calculations.

I see. I didn't know changing the rendermode would affect portals.

It's really cool. It doesn't change the way the portal looks, it just doesn't transmit light, so you can have as many onscreen as you want. Same for worldportals.

Not a very good video today, but I got splitscreen with a static camera working with Adhesion Gel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNHDieUd30

Does this only work with a static camera, the second player can just watch what the first player does, or did you finaly get Co-op working?

Also how far is the Map-Pack you are working on?

I really should continue the Map I'd startet, I've taken a break from Mapping for a few weeks now...

It's not true co-op, the gel only works for blue. But red doesn't have to be static, it's just a better effect (the cameras are in the monitors).

There is a problem I have and that is that I don't know where to put the player marker. Now the player spawns outside the map when I walk on the gel. Also, it seems like that sometimes trigger_vphysics_motion being dissabled doesn't affect the bomb when a cube is fizzled off a button connected to it, but with a player walking off, it worked. Here's a screenshot of what I have so far: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190741193

yishbarr wrote:
There is a problem I have and that is that I don't know where to put the player marker. Now the player spawns outside the map when I walk on the gel. Also, it seems like that sometimes trigger_vphysics_motion being dissabled doesn't affect the bomb when a cube is fizzled off a button connected to it, but with a player walking off, it worked. Here's a screenshot of what I have so far: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190741193

The map looks nice! The playermarker can go anywhere, the script parents it properly when the map starts up. I don't know about the vphysics_motion thing, but with the gel it sounds like the player's position is not updated properly. Could you post the last few lines from the console?

Sorry for the late reply. Just forgot about this.
ERROR: Tried to SetParentAttachment for entity info_target (playermarker), but it has no parent.

Also, where do you place the world origin or whatever that target is called? Also anywhere in the map?

Okay, I'll look into that. It sounds like something went wrong with the startup script.

The @world_rotator needs to be somewhere near the center of the puzzle. It doesn't really matter where, but the world will rotate around it and thus the containing box needs to be centered on the rotator.

New update on the Adhesion Gel! This isn't a cheap attempt to one-up Sicklebrick, that would be petty...okay, maybe it kind of is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ24Mh9H5Mw

That's quite cool.

Update on the Adhesion Cubes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDRyDqGGJdY

Unfortunately an error in Source prevents me from letting the cubes stick together when they're not attached to a wall. If anyone knows a way to move constraints at run-time please let me know.

Yesterday I had a great idea for a new test element (at least, it seemed great at eleven at night), and I'm trying to implement it now. It should allow for some pretty cool portal-less gameplay.

Why not work with sicklebrick to make the most adhesion gel ever?

That's what I'm probably going to do, I designed all this to be independent of the Adhesion Gel implementation. But neither of us has the gel working well enough to release yet.

I've been playing around with Sickle's implementation, and hope to upload a comparison video here soon. My conclusion is that both have their pros and cons, and the choice depends mostly on what type of test you want to make. At the moment I'm working on letting them work side by side; it mostly works but the gel sometimes takes on conversion properties (which is not always desirable).

Two Adhesion Gel implementations coexisting in a single map!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPhZZut-O4

blows dust off Authoring Tools

I haven't really done anything with Portal 2 in a while, but today I'm opening up Hammer again and trying to build another test element in under one hour. Let's see if it's possible.

And here is yesterday's video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOO3zHCfGxU

Portals in mid-air! Controls: press either mouse button to launch the corresponding energy ball, press the same button again to open it into a portal. As shown at the end of the video, you can have both out at once.

Refinements since that video was made:
- Portal-balls use better particle effects (from core P2)
- Portal-balls move 4x as fast as shown here, unless the player is ducking when they are fired (for more precision)
- Removed annoying visual stutter when moving through portals (for players and portal-balls)
- Removed particle effects "bleeding" through portals (which caused the blue portal to have an orange rim on the inside and vice-versa)
- Made portals change angles so that the velocity of the ball is normal to the surface at the time of opening

Improved version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pCOURsMW4