Old Portal Prefab List

#1 · May 26, 2008, 1:28 am

Open up SDK for Half Life 2, and click prefabs.
Then select Portal Prefabs.

Looks like prefabs for an old portal, before they made it Apeture Science like.

What do you think?

#2 · May 26, 2008, 8:29 am

sbrown wrote:

Looks like prefabs for an old portal, before they made it Apeture Science like.

What do you think?

I think that's exactly what it is. I heard in the Portal commentary that Portal used to have a Half-Life 2 look and this is it, great find. There is a lot of detailed brushwork that was probably made by the level designers as temporary models before the modellers made models for Portal. This is a look into an early iteration of the game left unintentionally by Valve.

#3 · May 28, 2008, 2:20 pm

I highly suggest you to look at those slides:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicatio ... Mortem.pdf

Source:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications.html

Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw, "Integrating Narrative and Design: A Portal Post-Mortem," Game Developer's Conference, February 2008.

Made Logic Portals in early 2008. Making diportals in 2011.
Author of Minecraft mods (MAtmos, Minaptics, NoteSlider) and Garry's Mod addons (Gunstrumental, SharpeYe, GarryWare, DepthHUD).

#4 · May 28, 2008, 4:33 pm

thats... interesting... wanted more before/after pictures.

do NOT click this

#5 · May 29, 2008, 10:52 pm

Hurricaaane wrote:

I highly suggest you to look at those slides:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicatio ... Mortem.pdf

Source:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications.html

Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw, "Integrating Narrative and Design: A Portal Post-Mortem," Game Developer's Conference, February 2008.

2 excellent links. I love the Portal Kombat pic.