[Solved] linked_portal_door crashing the game

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Sliipperi
30 Posts
Posted Jun 01, 2011
I've got two linked_portal_door entities in my map, with width of 768 and height of 1024. When I compile my map, the compiler doesn't show any errors. Even the Interlopers' error checker can't find anything out of the place. Linked_portal_doors have never ever crashed the game, but now Portal 2 just shuts down when the map is finished loading. I'm quite sure it's the linked_portal_door, because when I cordoned them out, the game didn't crash.

Update: It seems that the size of the linked_portal_doors does the crash. I change the size to 128x256 and it didn't crash.

Update 2: All right, I solved it! It seems that you have to input 1/4 of the real area the linked_portal_door covers. For example, you wanted to make a 768x1024 sized portal_door, you need to give the entity 1/4 of the real size, so the area you want to give to the portal_door is 384x512. That means you have to measure one corner of a rectangular area to get the value the portal_door wants. I think I explained it quite badly, so if anyone wants to confirm my theory or clarify it, please do.

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NocturnalGhost
200 Posts
Posted Jun 01, 2011
Replied 2 hours later
Yep, world portals should be half the width and half the height of the area they cover, like a radius, but in rectangular terms.