Quote from rellikpd on April 13, 2008, 8:24 pm

that was... wicked sick!

Quote from Fusion on April 13, 2008, 9:33 pm

Wow amazing, this makes our dear Portal look... average! The best part was when they changed the size of the portal by putting it through a scalable portal, and also when they changed the size of the cube.

The fact that this is open source is very exciting because it means that the community can take this project anywhere they like, even to multiplayer.

Edit: BTW I couldn't find a website for Portalized. Do they have one?

Quote from nightfire on April 13, 2008, 9:51 pm

Fusion wrote:

BTW I couldn't find a website for Portalized. Do they have one?

No they do not have a website. I am pretty sure it is being developed by one person.

Fusion wrote:

the fact that this is open source is very exciting...

From what have heard it is still undecided as to whether it is going to be open source. You can check its development here on the Ogre3d showcase forum.

EDIT:
I remembered that freegamer did a report on it a while back thinking it was open source but if you read the article and through the comments the author clearly states that it is not. It also has a link to another video.

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-press-portalized-open-source.html

Quote from iamafractal on April 13, 2008, 9:51 pm

I subscribed to nullsquared's videos......

Quote from MrTwoVideoCards on April 14, 2008, 3:47 am

Hmm this isn't actual scalable Portals real time, instead its a simple entity that controls the in-game scale, making it seem like the room is getting bigger. So really this is a neat trick, but its not real advanced, aside that this is Lua coding, with that you can do almost anything, so Source, can already do something much like this. Its like If I made a room, with two portals. One would go to a bigger room, while the other goes to a smaller room, its fairly simple. You could even do this with a monitor in Source, then have the player teleport to another area. So pff, this fails.

It does seem that objects can be scaled though, which is another thing Source already has too.

Quote from iamafractal on April 14, 2008, 7:01 am

MrTwoVideoCards wrote:

Hmm this isn't actual scalable Portals real time, instead its a simple entity that controls the in-game scale, making it seem like the room is getting bigger. So really this is a neat trick, but its not real advanced, aside that this is Lua coding, with that you can do almost anything, so Source, can already do something much like this. Its like If I made a room, with two portals. One would go to a bigger room, while the other goes to a smaller room, its fairly simple. You could even do this with a monitor in Source, then have the player teleport to another area. So pff, this fails.

It does seem that objects can be scaled though, which is another thing Source already has too.

hm rlly? i guess if it were real you could rapidly get into major trouble after a few passes...

Quote from SaSuK3 on April 14, 2008, 8:06 am

old old old!!!

Quote from MrTwoVideoCards on April 14, 2008, 8:26 pm

iamafractal wrote:

hm rlly? i guess if it were real you could rapidly get into major trouble after a few passes...

Yeah eventually so much ram would be used to calculate the scale, or the engine would run out of space, either way, it ends somewhere.

Quote from iamafractal on April 14, 2008, 9:19 pm

hmmmmm its scary anyway to imagine shrinking and shrinking forever like that.... there was a short story, that came out in the 1930's called "he who shrank." i believe it has been made into a podcast, maybe in "escape pod." but anyway this guy keeps shrinking and he makes a transition into another universe every time he gets down to the molecular scale... it happens many times...

hm why though do you have to keep the information about all the previous rooms. can't you just cache the latest few?