-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Well... the early replies were probably correct... but I'm sure certain parts of the code were revamped just for this.
On 8/1/06, Adam amckern Mckern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=168366 > > LUA 'Portal' > > Adam > > --- "Ben \"amogan\" K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I can tell from what I saw in the trailer > > they've done the > > portals in a pretty simple way: > > > > First off they used rendertargets etc. on the > > portals. > > For (non-player) object going through the portals > > they just add a temp. > > copy of the object to the exiting portal and when > > the actual object is > > half-way through copy and original switch places and > > after the object > > fully exited the portal the temp. copy gets removed. > > However this doesn't work (or isn't implemented) for > > the player entity. > > As you can see in the trailer the player-model > > doesn't move through the > > portals seamlessly, it rather really only gets > > teleported from one > > location to the other. > > > > Of course I can't be 100% sure about this as I > > didn't have the chance to > > play the game or look at the code. ;) > > But that's definitely the way I'd go when coding > > such portals - and at > > least it really looks like that's how they've done > > it, once again > > watching the trailer. :> > > > > So far I guess the Portal team didn't have to modify > > the engine itself a > > lot. The hardest things to do IMO probably were > > making the player see > > his player model when looking through the portals, > > making entities not > > collied with the wall when going through portals and > > adjusting some > > viewangle stuff. > > > > - amogan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view > > the list archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > -------- > Nigredo Studios http://www.nigredostudios.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
