Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · October 15, 2007, 11:58 am

I would love to see some Portal action with a mixture of half-life 2 baddies in it... I am not a coder, just do some modelling and mapping.. so my question is, how hard would it be to import weapons to the portal engine?

I propose that anyone willing to discuss this topic, do it here.

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#2 · October 15, 2007, 12:00 pm

I'm not sure what you mean by 'adding weapons to the game'. But Portal is based on HL2 completely. If you use the cheatcode 'impulse 101' you'll get all HL2 weapons.

They look a bit glitchy though.

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#3 · October 15, 2007, 1:00 pm

Didn't know that ;-) well what i was thinking is, I can envision a multiplayer mod with this portal technology where the gun itself had limited uses, and spawned very infrequently for death match, or for team/class based mod, having 1 class that uses the device for circumventing obstacles for the team...

Could/would a portal be available to be used by anyone in the game once created? Would it be based on your team? There are alot of questions that I am sure could be asked, however... all speculation aside, I am sure that a good coder could bend the variables of Aperture's science toy to fit into some form of SP/MP DM or Team/Class based mod.

#4 · October 15, 2007, 1:09 pm

There is already a "portal" multiplayer mod.

http://www.exitemod.com

It's real glitchy and laggy.

http://www.dpgames.co.uk/

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#5 · October 15, 2007, 1:15 pm

Yeah, ExitE is neat but they seemed to have stopped caring about updating the mod. I think the last release was in 2006? Maybe when the portal code is released with the full SDK, they'll give it another go.

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#6 · October 15, 2007, 1:16 pm

espen180 wrote:

There is already a "portal" multiplayer mod.

http://www.exitemod.com

It's real glitchy and laggy.

alpha ...

#7 · October 15, 2007, 1:46 pm

or maybe valve purchased the code from them and created portal?

#8 · October 15, 2007, 1:46 pm

quentin wrote:

or maybe valve purchased the code from them and created portal?

Uhh, no.

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#9 · October 15, 2007, 1:47 pm

quentin wrote:

or maybe valve purchased the code from them and created portal?

I think that would be out of the question since their version is the one containing bugs.

But who knows...

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#10 · October 15, 2007, 1:47 pm

ok... well it looks awefully similiar... who bit who then?

Lets talk about "adding" stuff to the game.