http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMMWHAbl ... ature=plcp

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Vordwann wrote:
That awkward moment when Inception was about putting ideas in other people's minds and not dreams within dreams.

It was a bit weird that the film never really looked at the moral implications of going into someone's mind and basically just running around messing with all kinds of different shit. Although I guess that wouldn't have been quite as cool as recreating the Surface level from Goldeneye.

El Farmerino wrote:
Vordwann wrote:

That awkward moment when Inception was about putting ideas in other people's minds and not dreams within dreams.

It was a bit weird that the film never really looked at the moral implications of going into someone's mind and basically just running around messing with all kinds of different shit. Although I guess that wouldn't have been quite as cool as recreating the Surface level from Goldeneye.

What I'm trying to say is when people use the -ception postfix to talk about something inside something else, it doesn't... mean that. So... memes originating the wrong way. Because Inception is putting an idea in someone's head, NOT the concept of something within something else.

Conway wrote:
A portal inside portal!!!

DMMWHAblAo4

For everyone like me too lazy to click on the link.

EDIT
Also something like this has been done before a few times. The first example I can think of is time arch.

msleeper wrote:
I don't know why everyone is so impressed with world portal gimmicks.

Peons don't listen to dev commentaries and as such are surprised

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... ortal_door

There really isn't anything special or impressive about this.

Vordwann wrote:
"It's craaaaaaaaazy how this guy made a portal. Wow. In the steam engine."

That is quite amazing... Steam engine powered portals you say?

Also it has to be commented how easily Damapegy polishes and details anything he makes in a short time (this was made in only some hours): all those props for the gate, the bottom part emitting the red light, the upper slots where the gate connects... the dirty fizzler texture in the direction of the destroyed room, the sprites and env_beams.

Anyway, I remember I also said to him it reminded me of Stargate... but I keep good memories about that movie.

Nacimota wrote:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik%20...%20ortal_door

There really isn't anything special or impressive about this.

Well, I DO like world portals when they are used moderately and with a certain style like in this case. I like the 2 versions of the same room separated by a "time" door... Also with a good soundscript it can frighten the player or make him feel in another world... I think this entity is useful in a sci-fi game, that's all.

josepezdj wrote:
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I agree - I've seen this idea done a couple of times before, but never looking quite this good.

msleeper wrote:
Also something like this has been done before a few times. The first example I can think of is time arch.

First example I can think of is in the main game when you portal into Wheatley's trap where he tries to shoot you with defective turrets. So there.

RubbishyUsername wrote:
First example I can think of is in the main game when you portal into Wheatley's trap where he tries to shoot you with defective turrets. So there.

I think they also use it when you plunge into the incinerator. (The map is sp_a1_wakeup if anyone is interested).

My two pence on world portals: sometimes they can create a cool effect, but they're very easy to make frustrating from the player's point of view.

I think the best example was a map where gravity 'flipped' so that the ceiling became the floor if you went high enough. That's not the best description; it's probably clearer to say that it was made by constructing the two halves of the room separately and then stitching them together with a world-portal ceiling.

Not so fun: puzzles where you have to shoot portals through world-portals. If it's set up like with the Wheatley turrets, (where you don't realise the world portal is there) it's fine. But if you've recognised it as a portal, you treat it like a normal portal, which doesn't let you shoot portals through it.

Also not so fun: creating 'weird' geometry. Maybe a door which leads to two different parts of the map, depending on the side that you enter it from. It's tough enough to wrap the brain around portals that the player places, never mind ones over which the player has no control.

BEARD! wrote:
RubbishyUsername wrote:

First example I can think of is in the main game when you portal into Wheatley's trap where he tries to shoot you with defective turrets. So there.

I think they also use it when you plunge into the incinerator. (The map is sp_a1_wakeup if anyone is interested).

My two pence on world portals: sometimes they can create a cool effect, but they're very easy to make frustrating from the player's point of view.

I think the best example was a map where gravity 'flipped' so that the ceiling became the floor if you went high enough. That's not the best description; it's probably clearer to say that it was made by constructing the two halves of the room separately and then stitching them together with a world-portal ceiling.

Not so fun: puzzles where you have to shoot portals through world-portals. If it's set up like with the Wheatley turrets, (where you don't realise the world portal is there) it's fine. But if you've recognised it as a portal, you treat it like a normal portal, which doesn't let you shoot portals through it.

Also not so fun: creating 'weird' geometry. Maybe a door which leads to two different parts of the map, depending on the side that you enter it from. It's tough enough to wrap the brain around portals that the player places, never mind ones over which the player has no control.

I don't think world portals were used at all except sp_a4_finale2
P.S it's called sp_a2_intro.
I saw inside the incinerator was a transition trigger.