Enable Portals on a Moving Portalable Surface?
Hello,
Is it possible to allow a portal to remain active on a portalable surface, while that surface is moving / rotating? If not, are there any good alternatives to simulate this behavior?
I am envisioning a puzzle involving a portalable angle panel which would follow a circular track along the wall.
Any suggestions / ideas would be much appreciated! If it is not possible / worth it, that would be good to know too =)
Thanks in advance,
Denominator
There's a console variable that allows portals to move around. They can be pretty buggy, though. sv_cheats must be on for the variable to be changed. What you want to do is use a logic_auto to, OnMapSpawn, fire the command "sv_cheats 1;sv_allow_mobile_portals 1;sv_cheats 0" to a point_servercommand to enable the behaviour, then turn it off once done. It might persist across loads, so turn it off as soon as you can.
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The only downside to that is it might disable achievements for players. Most people have the ones they need, but it still might affect a handful of people. However, it's probably your best bet. There's also a command that disables the display time of the "Server cvar 'sv_cheats' changed to 0/1", though I forget what it is.
Interesting fact: the game is programmed to allow moving portals without cheats on if the map name is "sp_a2_bts5".
hud_saytexttime 0
To reset, use 12 instead of 0
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@TeamSpen210 Thank you so much! It is so cool that they built in that option, even if it is buggy!
@srs bsnss / @CamBen Thanks for the helpful info! I should probably add a warning in the map description, that the tester should exit the game if the map crashes =)
hud_saytexttime 0
To reset, use 12 instead of 0
Isn't it just hud_saytime?
Nope, i was hung up in a tree because of that for a while, wondering why my command wasn't working. Checked the console, it was hud_saytexttime.
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In order to enable it without cheats enabled the point_servercommand has to be named enable_mobile_portals_command.
You could probably steal the scripted scene in Portal 2, can't you?