Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · May 22, 2014, 5:34 pm

I can't find anything helpful on how to do this properly.
LAYOUT:

Code: Select all: ================ = P P = = P L P = = P P = ================

where P are the linked_portal_doors,
= are the walls,
L is the player,
and empty space is empty space.
If the player walks to the left, they should not hit the wall, and instead come through the portal on the right.
However, the player walks through the portal and hits the wall like

Code: Select all: ================ = P P = =lP PL= = P P = ================

(l is an entity that mirrors the player's actions)
What am I doing wrong?

#2 · May 22, 2014, 5:42 pm

Wait wat

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#3 · May 22, 2014, 5:45 pm

It sounds like your "exit" door is just backwards... I don't have the time to help find some useful links at the moment but you want to make sure your linked_portal_doors are facing the right way (towards each other from what I think your trying to do - an infinite loop).. this is to do with the orientation of the entity in Hammer. The big red arrow/end is the front, the green bar is the left/right and the blue flag is up/down... sorry if that's not very helpful but I'm not at my home PC to do any further digging for you, it should at least set you on the correct path to fixing your problem

Also, screenshots of your map/hammer views are more helpful to most people then "drawings"....

#4 · May 22, 2014, 5:50 pm

RustyDios wrote:

It sounds like your "exit" door is just backwards... I don't have the time to help find some useful links at the moment but you want to make sure your linked_portal_doors are facing the right way (towards each other from what I think your trying to do - an infinite loop).. this is to do with the orientation of the entity in Hammer. The big red arrow/end is the front, the green bar is the left/right and the blue flag is up/down... sorry if that's not very helpful but I'm not at my home PC to do any further digging for you, it should at least set you on the correct path to fixing your problem

Thanks! I'll try that now!
EDIT: that works!

RustyDios wrote:

Also, screenshots of your map/hammer views are more helpful to most people then "drawings"....

I'm not allowed to use the IMG tag though...

#5 · May 23, 2014, 6:24 am

Why would you not be allowed to use the [img] tag?

Wow! That was...uh, yeah. Just, yeah.

#6 · May 23, 2014, 6:48 am

No clue.
It just says I can't

#7 · May 23, 2014, 7:43 am

sack_bot wrote:

No clue.
It just says I can't

That is so weird.

Wow! That was...uh, yeah. Just, yeah.

#8 · May 23, 2014, 10:54 am

You don't have enough posts yet. It's to prevent spammers from putting pictures or videos in their first few posts.

Flip your portals around so the red arrows point towards each other and try it again. (Change the second number in the Angles by 180 in either direction.)

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#9 · May 23, 2014, 11:01 am

FelixGriffin wrote:

You don't have enough posts yet. It's to prevent spammers from putting pictures or videos in their first few posts.

Flip your portals around so the red arrows point towards each other and try it again. (Change the second number in the Angles by 180 in either direction.)

I did that.
It works.
I don't think I need this thread anymore

linked_portal_door help?