[Cheat Suggestion] Portal shoot goes in portal

[LightningFire]

If you don't know what I mean, I mean that if you could make it so when you shoot a 'bullet' into a portal, it goes out of the other. This will lead to a whole new level of tricky puzzles.

[renhoek]

didn't happen in portal

[LightningFire]

I know, but it would be cool if Maurice added it to the game.

[Sky]

Consider the insanity of the possible puzzles. Call it "x."

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insanity_of_coding_that=x;

[PloXyZeRO]

Well Maurice seems to be sticking to the game for the most part. If you shot a portal through a portal, it would break space.

[Superjustinbros]

I don't think this is a good idea. It would make some puzzle-based levels ridiculously easy. :[

[Sašo]

I don't think this would be problematic to code, especially considering portal shots are objects and could be made to travel through portals.

But that would make things just more complicated and frustrating when you'd try to move a portal for a bit and would end up shooting it on the other side of the map.


Consider it a design related decision.

[LightningFire]

Ok, I understand. Thanks anyways.

[d_0o_d]

How should that work anyways, you've got two portals you set the first now shoot through it, where is it supposed to get out?

[Maurice]

I don't think this would be problematic to code, especially considering portal shots are objects and could be made to travel through portals.

Portal shots aren't objects.
They have a pre-calculated startpoint, endpoint and payload.

[Franpa]

How should that work anyways, you've got two portals you set the first now shoot through it, where is it supposed to get out?

The idea was that you create 2 portals, then shoot through them with the portal gun and the energy orb/projectile fired from the Portal Gun would travel through both portals hitting a surface beyond.

[Sašo]

I don't think this would be problematic to code, especially considering portal shots are objects and could be made to travel through portals.

Portal shots aren't objects.
They have a pre-calculated startpoint, endpoint and payload.

Close enough. (Not close at all.)

[Maurice]

I don't think this would be problematic to code, especially considering portal shots are objects and could be made to travel through portals.

Portal shots aren't objects.
They have a pre-calculated startpoint, endpoint and payload.

Close enough. (Not close at all.)

Well you're right though, it isn't problematic to code.
I'd just have to extend traceline to allow portaling.

[TheSeek]

But that would make things just more complicated and frustrating when you'd try to move a portal for a bit and would end up shooting it on the other side of the map.

maybe it's nonsense, and i have no idea if that would be hard to code, but how about you can shoot a portal just through the other portal color? i.e. you can shoot the blue portal through the orange one but not through the blue one, and viceversa. that would allow to move a portal without mistakenly shooting it on the other side of the map.

[renhoek]

I'm against the idea because this can break many mappacks and make it extreamly hard to make levels.

[TheSeek]

I'm against the idea because this can break many mappacks and make it extreamly hard to make levels.

you're right...what if added just as a cheat?

[renhoek]

that's... Not a bad idea actually.

[Mari0Lu1g1]

Idea: What if you could shoot a portal through a portal? Because there'd be already pre-placed portals!

[LightningFire]

Ok, a cheat suggestion it is. Updated title.

[Turtle95]

It's mind-bending! But in portal, it just moves the portal (if it were the same color, otherwise not do anything at all). I kinda like it, even if it does go against the portal rules. Rules are sometimes meant to be broken, and that's what portal did.

[12seth12]

So now the question is, would you be able to aim it, or would it shoot perfectly straight out onto the next wall. and would the aiming pointer show the difference in aiming through the portal.

[SpocKirk]

That's the way they did portals in Darksiders, but you could look through the portal to see where you were shooting it.

[Turtle95]

So now the question is, would you be able to aim it, or would it shoot perfectly straight out onto the next wall. and would the aiming pointer show the difference in aiming through the portal.

Hm.. Want me to try something here?

EDIT:

Can't seem to get this, unless..

[Maurice]

You can stop talking about this already, I won't add it.

[PloXyZeRO]

You could walk half way through a portal in Portal, and shoot through it that way though, as long as your gun was through. I don't know if this works in Mari0, but I'm guessing it does.

[Camewel]

It works much better in Mari0 because you don't get pushed out of a portal when you make a new one.

[humodz]

You could walk half way through a portal in Portal, and shoot through it that way though, as long as your gun was through. I don't know if this works in Mari0, but I'm guessing it does.

The game makes a sound when you pass through a portal, this way you can know from which "side" you'll be able to shot

[fakeuser]

It works much better in Mari0 because you don't get pushed out of a portal when you make a new one.

That should not happen. @Maurice: maybe adding some logic to close the orange portal when the blue one is moved and then reopen it while opening the blue one?

[LightningFire]

Uhh, not to be mean, but there is already a thread for suggesting, and Maurice already said that he won't be adding this in the game, so why do you guys keep posting in here?

[Franpa]

Because they're prepubescent teens?

[renhoek]

Uhh, not to be mean, but there is already a thread for suggesting, and Maurice already said that he won't be adding this in the game, so why do you guys keep posting in here?

I keep visiting this thread and wandering the same question.

I think it's because some people still think it's a good idea?

[Camewel]

Because there's a conversation going on.
We're not so afraid of Maurice that we instantly kill all conversation in the topic when he says you should stop talking about adding a dumb feature to the game.

[Maurice]

It works much better in Mari0 because you don't get pushed out of a portal when you make a new one.

That should not happen. @Maurice: maybe adding some logic to close the orange portal when the blue one is moved and then reopen it while opening the blue one?

Seemed more like a limitation In Portal to me due to the opening animation of the portal so I thought it'd be nice to remove it.