Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · September 2, 2011, 11:53 pm

I'm curious, is it possible to port any portal models or any source engine game model to portal 2, or a cake model?

#2 · September 3, 2011, 12:18 am

There shouldn't be any problems as long as you correctly relocate the materials/textures/models.

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#3 · September 3, 2011, 12:21 am

Be careful though, some Portal 1 models can crash Portal 2. (old Switch, Old AutoPortal Frame, etc)

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#4 · September 3, 2011, 12:23 am

reepblue wrote:

Be careful though, some Portal 1 models can crash Portal 2. (old Switch, Old AutoPortal Frame, etc)

Really? Did not know that. Something to do with the version?

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#5 · September 3, 2011, 12:52 am

reepblue wrote:

Be careful though, some Portal 1 models can crash Portal 2. (old Switch, Old AutoPortal Frame, etc)

Yep reepblue's right, my portal 2 crash as quicky as I loaded the map with the models

#6 · September 3, 2011, 8:41 am

Just remember it happens in all Source Engine games...

#7 · September 4, 2011, 3:49 am

Never had a problem by using older modelversions in other source games.

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#8 · September 4, 2011, 11:20 am

The second time didn't crash, until I placed a portal near it.-__-

#9 · September 8, 2011, 5:15 am

I havent been able to figure this out, would someone please be able to tell me exctly how you inport old models? using the cake for an example, i grabbed the folder called cake from the model folder of portal 1 along with the materials folder by the same name. i put the cake model folder within a folder i created called spamnugget in portal 2's model directory. the cake textuer folder i put in the directory portal2/portal2/materials/models/spamnugget. i changed the vmt so it points to the correct files. however when i load hammer i can find the model but nothing appears on the preview pane. when trying to load it into the model viewer, i just get an error. could you please tell me how to do this? there are a few models i would like to import in, but i just cant get it to work.

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#10 · September 8, 2011, 6:36 am

You need to decompile the model and change where the resources are coming from in the .qc file.

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