Would it be possible to create surfaces that reflect portals, making them hit another place as if the shot bounces of the wall?
It believe it would enable very innovative and creative puzzles

Almighty paintskills!

If you can code you can do it.
It could potentially be dead easy, but then again it could be very hard.
And yes, If you could get it working it would be quite cool

Ive actually thought of this before.. very interesting

I have no chance at all coding it, Hammer is hard enough for me, it was more of an idea for other people hint

Well, it may be possible, but wouldn't it require a lot of portal detectors (assuming you don't code it in?)

or do portal detectors not function like that, or is it just the figuring of the
angles that makes it difficult?

Writing a mod that can do this sounds simple enough, actually, if the gun works anything like I suspect it does. Reflecting a vector around the normal of the face it hits is trivial, and from there all it would take is to fire another portal projectile out from the face. Actually getting it done, on the other hand... and then there's the whole "it's a mod" thing.

I could actually see this being a very good idea. The surface could be like a mirror which you could see yourself and everything in. Bullets would hit the mirror, but the portal gun shots would reflect off of it.

I like it, very interesting.

Yeah I've thought of this before as well, as have a couple other people I believe. I'm sure somebody will code it into a mod sooner or later, maybe even me!

100% would need new coding. So you'll have to wait a while until the SDK base is updated.

msleeper wrote:
100% would need new coding. So you'll have to wait a while until the SDK base is updated.

Again.

The SDK base hasn't been touched yet. Just the SDK.

Isn't SDK base just a graphics test?

Or have i had it wrong since the day i downloaded it?

I'm pretty sure you need to have sdk base installed if you have any mods on. I had the HL2 insurgency mod once. Made me download the sdk base before I could play.

Insurgency is the only mod I've run into that required it. I'm not exactly sure what it is, though, either.

Check out the Valve wiki on SDK Base:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_SDK_Base

Apparently it's a streamlined version of the HL2 exe & content for modmakers to base their mods on, rather than the version used for Half-Life 2, which has a slightly older codebase, and it loads more "stuff" that most mods don't need.

I'm pretty sure it is possible, as the portal gun fires 'portal balls' which are projectiles. Crossbow projectiles get reflected too, under the right angle. If you use the same script as for the crossbow bolts and change the angle limit, you have yourself a bouncing portal gun...

And we need a reflective surface.
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nvm what I said above.

EDIT
Oh wait, you can say: if hits surface, reflecting enabled.
I know not much about scriping, so I'm only wild guessing right now.