Hello,

Is it possible to allow a portal to remain active on a portalable surface, while that surface is moving / rotating? If not, are there any good alternatives to simulate this behavior?

I am envisioning a puzzle involving a portalable angle panel which would follow a circular track along the wall.

Any suggestions / ideas would be much appreciated! If it is not possible / worth it, that would be good to know too =)

Thanks in advance,
Denominator

There's a console variable that allows portals to move around. They can be pretty buggy, though. sv_cheats must be on for the variable to be changed. What you want to do is use a logic_auto to, OnMapSpawn, fire the command "sv_cheats 1;sv_allow_mobile_portals 1;sv_cheats 0" to a point_servercommand to enable the behaviour, then turn it off once done. It might persist across loads, so turn it off as soon as you can.

The only downside to that is it might disable achievements for players. Most people have the ones they need, but it still might affect a handful of people. However, it's probably your best bet. There's also a command that disables the display time of the "Server cvar 'sv_cheats' changed to 0/1", though I forget what it is.

Interesting fact: the game is programmed to allow moving portals without cheats on if the map name is "sp_a2_bts5".

srs bsnss wrote:
The only downside to that is it might disable achievements for players. Most people have the ones they need, but it still might affect a handful of people. However, it's probably your best bet. There's also a command that disables the display time of the "Server cvar 'sv_cheats' changed to 0/1", though I forget what it is.

hud_saytexttime 0

To reset, use 12 instead of 0

@TeamSpen210 Thank you so much! It is so cool that they built in that option, even if it is buggy!

@srs bsnss / @CamBen Thanks for the helpful info! I should probably add a warning in the map description, that the tester should exit the game if the map crashes =)

CamBen wrote:
srs bsnss wrote:

The only downside to that is it might disable achievements for players. Most people have the ones they need, but it still might affect a handful of people. However, it's probably your best bet. There's also a command that disables the display time of the "Server cvar 'sv_cheats' changed to 0/1", though I forget what it is.

hud_saytexttime 0

To reset, use 12 instead of 0

Isn't it just hud_saytime?

Nope, i was hung up in a tree because of that for a while, wondering why my command wasn't working. Checked the console, it was hud_saytexttime.

In order to enable it without cheats enabled the point_servercommand has to be named enable_mobile_portals_command.

You could probably steal the scripted scene in Portal 2, can't you?