a couple of questions

#1 · May 31, 2011, 11:30 am

well, i have a few queries.
firstly, how can i make coop spawn elevators where one person gets a portal gun and the other does not.
secondly can i somehow take away a players portal gun.
thirdly can you give each player a orange/blue only portal gun.
and finally, is it possible to make a portal land on a wall sideways(i have a good idea for HLBs).

#2 · May 31, 2011, 12:49 pm

1. It would appear that by default a coop bot will spawn with a portal gun.
2. Probably. Use trigger_weapon_strip.
3. See 1.
4. Yes. Use info_placement_helper.

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#3 · May 31, 2011, 2:51 pm

1&3 i want them to spawn without the portalgun
2&4 will try that thanks

#4 · May 31, 2011, 5:20 pm

Idolon wrote:

1. It would appear that by default a coop bot will spawn with a portal gun.
2. Probably. Use trigger_weapon_strip.
3. See 1.
4. Yes. Use info_placement_helper.

can you tell me how the placement_helper works...

#5 · May 31, 2011, 5:40 pm

RageCompeX wrote:

can you tell me how the placement_helper works...

Thirty seconds on the Valve Developer Wiki:

VDC wrote:

Entity description

A portal auto aligner. Portals fired close to it will automatically be positioned where this entity is placed. Compare with func_portal_orientation that only controlled the orientation.

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#6 · May 31, 2011, 10:05 pm

By the way, spawning the robots without guns must be somehow possible, since the co-op calibration course does that. How I don't know, maybe just a trigger_weapon_strip in the spawns.

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