Portal 2 Mechanics remade for Portal.

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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Jun 27, 2010
Hi guys, its been a while.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to take a short break from Blue Portals and join the rush to remake Portal 2 for Portal. I know I got mentioned a lot up on Facepunch a lot even though I'm not a part of that mess. So I decided to share it here:

Aerial Faith Plates (Attempt)

Excursion Funnel (Attempt)

Diversity Vents (Vid 2)

Thermal Discouragement Beam

Now although I don't have all the textures right to the bone, in the Diversity Vents and the Discouragement Beam maps, I studied the Portal 2 videos and was able to remake the map to the very unit the best I could.

Before you go all: "Wheres the download link?" These are not very. . . Public ready. That is, it breaks if you do something stupid. Now, When I mean "break" I don't mean "door will not open", or "If you place a box here, this will happen", etc I mean the game will crash.

I'm thinking about going back and try to fix these errors, however It will subtract time from Blue Portals and I really don't wanna waste any more time. (Also, Colossal would kill me.)

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Nacimota
345 Posts
Posted Jun 28, 2010
Replied 15 hours later
Certainly not as awesome as valve's, but very impressive nonetheless. :thumbup:
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pestchamber
614 Posts
Posted Jun 29, 2010
Replied 1 day later

reepblue wrote:
Hi guys, its been a while.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to take a short break from Blue Portals and join the rush to remake Portal 2 for Portal. I know I got mentioned a lot up on Facepunch a lot even though I'm not a part of that mess. So I decided to share it here:

Aerial Faith Plates (Attempt)

Excursion Funnel (Attempt)

Diversity Vents (Vid 2)

Thermal Discouragement Beam

Now although I don't have all the textures right to the bone, in the Diversity Vents and the Discouragement Beam maps, I studied the Portal 2 videos and was able to remake the map to the very unit the best I could.

Before you go all: "Wheres the download link?" These are not very. . . Public ready. That is, it breaks if you do something stupid. Now, When I mean "break" I don't mean "door will not open", or "If you place a box here, this will happen", etc I mean the game will crash.

I'm thinking about going back and try to fix these errors, however It will subtract time from Blue Portals and I really don't wanna waste any more time. (Also, Colossal would kill me.)

So, how did you manage to get the funnel going through the portal?

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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Jun 30, 2010
Replied 7 hours later
I took some Sorcery in the 3rd grade. :razz:

Its actually a set of entities its kinda a BP secret.

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pestchamber
614 Posts
Posted Jul 01, 2010
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reepblue wrote:
I took some Sorcery in the 3rd grade. :razz:

Its actually a set of entities its kinda a BP secret.

:thumbdown:

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knizz
6 Posts
Posted Jul 01, 2010
Replied 5 hours later
I'll guess...

Thermal Discouragement Beam: env_beam, OnTouchedByEntity, !activator and Ignite
Excursion Funnel: parent attachment to portal

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hanging_rope
435 Posts
Posted Jul 03, 2010
Replied 2 days later
I have an idea to fix that player speed when going through the funnel- make 2 seperate trigger pushes, 1 for the cube, 1 for the player, and set the player one at a higher speed.
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kubus_pl
4 Posts
Posted Jul 17, 2010
Replied 13 days later
Dear god... If you had made it before the release of Portal 2... It was possible. All that was needed was an idea.
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MrTwoVideoCards
584 Posts
Posted Aug 22, 2010
Replied 1 month later
I can't really understand the trend with people wanting to remake Portal 2 gameplay mechanics for Portal 1. Eventually the game is going to come out, and this isn't going to matter even the slightest. You would be better off spending your time thinking about a Portal 2 map design idea, or layout etc than actually trying to recreate this stuff. Theres really no point in doing it when it's already going to be ten times better in Portal 2.
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msleeper
4,136 Posts
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Posted Aug 22, 2010
Replied 9 minutes later
I have to kind of agree. It's really cool and all, but if you're not going to release it and if it's going to be obsolete in 6 months, why waste the time?
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WinstonSmith
940 Posts
Posted Aug 24, 2010
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msleeper wrote:
I have to kind of agree. It's really cool and all, but if you're not going to release it and if it's going to be obsolete in 6 months, why waste the time?

I think it's because it demonstrates mapping skill. Yes, it will be obsolete in six months because an engine/SDK update will facilitate the creation of those mechanics; however, if you're able to set up a rig that realistically replicates the mechanics in the current engine (which is obviously not built for them) it says something about your mapping ability.

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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Aug 25, 2010
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msleeper wrote:
I have to kind of agree. It's really cool and all, but if you're not going to release it and if it's going to be obsolete in 6 months, why waste the time?

I mostly did it for fun, really. I've learned a lot of things doing Portal 2 stuff, and most importantly got more people to support Blue Portals.

Its pretty much all an experimental and promotional game which in-fact my Hammer Notepad videos was all about from day one.

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msleeper
4,136 Posts
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Posted Aug 25, 2010
Replied 1 hour later
Hey fair enough, I can't hate on you for that!

So when are we going to get our Exclusive TWP release? :wink:

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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Aug 25, 2010
Replied 8 hours later

msleeper wrote:
Hey fair enough, I can't hate on you for that!

So when are we going to get our Exclusive TWP release? :wink:

lol,

I don't really know since I'm ether experimenting or working on Blue Portals. Only did that Portal 2 Map for a contest. Once the site starts to kick back up, I'll treat TWP and myApertureLabs the same or any future releases I tend to do. :smile:

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Racecarlock
4 Posts
Posted Aug 25, 2010
Replied 11 hours later
You wouldn't mind perfecting the diversity vent so it doesn't crash the game, right? I want an empty room with a funnel so I can send a turret and maybe some office chairs and hard drives into an infinite loop.
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jubradbig98
13 Posts
Posted Dec 07, 2011
Replied 1 year later
wat i do to see...ppl keep doing this but i think it just to be mean to people with slow learning