Many world portals
Posted Jun 08, 2012
For my first map, I built an unfolded Tesseract, which is a 4 dimensional object with 8 cubes in it. (Ever see the movie Hypercube?)
Most of the faces of the cubes are connected by world portals (linked_portal_door) except for the cubes which are adjacent in 3d. It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals, but this seems to be causing some odd graphical glitches, errors and bugs. I'm kinda overwhelmed at this point. Maybe I'm trying to do something a little too crazy with Portal 2 which it cannot handle?
Any input or comments appreciated.
Most of the faces of the cubes are connected by world portals (linked_portal_door) except for the cubes which are adjacent in 3d. It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals, but this seems to be causing some odd graphical glitches, errors and bugs. I'm kinda overwhelmed at this point. Maybe I'm trying to do something a little too crazy with Portal 2 which it cannot handle?
Any input or comments appreciated.
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Posted Jun 08, 2012
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I just posted this on the map thread:
If you have too many portals in your map, it will result in glitches and bugs. That's that. Not much else I can say, maybe someone found a way to fix it up...
If you have too many portals in your map, it will result in glitches and bugs. That's that. Not much else I can say, maybe someone found a way to fix it up...
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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The engine starts shitting bricks if you have more than 8 world portals.
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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Thanks for the quick replies. I guess I'll toss this idea then.
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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World portals are also known for their buggyness. They were intended to link puzzles together so it was easier to link them together during development. They are NOT intended to be used as a test element, if you use them sparely they shouldn't cause problems but I already saw problems in a level taht only used two which could see eachother and caused a hell of a lot problem
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gizm0steve wrote:
It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals

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BEARD! wrote:
gizm0steve wrote:It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals
HA, Thats It? I have a map with 48!
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GLaDOS CUBE wrote:
BEARD! wrote:gizm0steve wrote:
It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals
HA, Thats It? I have a map with 48!
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GLaDOS CUBE wrote:
BEARD! wrote:gizm0steve wrote:
It might be the fact that there are 12 world portals
HA, Thats It? I have a map with 48!

Posted Jun 08, 2012
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Lpfreaky90 wrote:
It Was an Old Test, Very Old
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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I dought i still have it...it...It still Here? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61522918/pic/portal2%202012-06-08%2017-53-31-72.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61522918/pic/portal2%202012-06-08%2017-53-53-60.png Now I Remember why i scraped the idea
NEVER AGAIN
NEVER AGAIN
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I agree with LpFreaky90 on this one. 
I laughed when I saw how many World Portals you used. Btw,
This Applesauce GlaDOS_Cube:
http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/11/09/EA1B03_10-Minute-Apple-Sauce_lg.jpg

I laughed when I saw how many World Portals you used. Btw,
This Applesauce GlaDOS_Cube:
http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/11/09/EA1B03_10-Minute-Apple-Sauce_lg.jpg
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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Can you Blame Some One For Being Bored? Having a BAD ideaAnd having to much time to Create all the logic for this?
Posted Jun 08, 2012
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Quote:
Hey guys I'm making a map based entirely around using world portals as a gimmick
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man that is one complex map
you might be able to solve the problem with a lot of area portals to stop all the extra rendering, however I dont know if this will help once you start using your portal gun.
also there are quite a few problems with the portals being misnamed or something
also this isn't a real tesseract, but that is beside the point
nice try
try using hammer, and not the puzzle builder also
you might be able to solve the problem with a lot of area portals to stop all the extra rendering, however I dont know if this will help once you start using your portal gun.
also there are quite a few problems with the portals being misnamed or something
also this isn't a real tesseract, but that is beside the point
nice try

try using hammer, and not the puzzle builder also
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Posted Jun 09, 2012
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You know, this could work without rendering problems. Either put doors between all of them, or attach as many as you can together normally without world portals, but not in the "standard" net.