Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · April 7, 2008, 6:05 am

So I decided to investigate on closing portals. Ive played with the Gmod 9, and gmod 10 portal guns and R closes portals, I think it was the same with the sourcemod ExitE.

So I wanted to do it in Portal, and I did, so Put this into your Config
bind "r" "ent_remove_all prop_portal; play weaponsportalgunportal_close2.wav;

You can change the Closing sound as well if youd like

I dont know if it will work if you type it in console, I forgot the console command to bind it so youll have to add it to your config, Other wise ENJOY

#2 · April 7, 2008, 8:15 am

PortalFan77 wrote:

bind "r" "ent_remove_all prop_portal; play weaponsportalgunportal_close2.wav;

I think you're missing an end quotation there. Also, does this require sv_cheats 1 to work?

"Games are made out of smaller games ? turtles all the way down, until you hit the game that is so trivial and stupid it isn?t deserving of the name." --Raph Koster

#3 · April 7, 2008, 9:30 am

Well, there is one problem here, I believe: doesn't this close all of 'em, including autoportals?

"Duct Tape is the answer."

#4 · April 7, 2008, 1:31 pm

Re-open the Portal in the very next command so that the user never notices it's gone?

"Games are made out of smaller games ? turtles all the way down, until you hit the game that is so trivial and stupid it isn?t deserving of the name." --Raph Koster

#5 · April 7, 2008, 4:16 pm

Re-open the...?

Then what's the whole point of closing the portal in the first place?

"Duct Tape is the answer."

#6 · April 7, 2008, 4:42 pm

Ricotez wrote:

Re-open the...?

Then what's the whole point of closing the portal in the first place?

reopen the autoportals IE the ones the play has no control over.

I was sure there is already a bind to close user placed portals

/me shoots off to portal to see if he is right

EDIT: /me is devistated to find he is wrong

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#7 · April 7, 2008, 6:27 pm

Hober wrote:

I think you're missing an end quotation there. Also, does this require sv_cheats 1 to work?

Nope

Ricotez wrote:

Well, there is one problem here, I believe: doesn't this close all of 'em, including autoportals?

Yeah, but I use this once I get the UPGRADED Portal Gun

Ricotez wrote:

Re-open the...?

Then what's the whole point of closing the portal in the first place?

Well, hard to explain, But sometimes when Im doing a puzzle, I want to place a portal under a combine ball and not have it go through another portal, so I close the portals, Place the portal, then Ill place the portal I need at the right time

youme wrote:

reopen the autoportals IE the ones the play has no control over.

I was sure there is already a bind to close user placed portals

/me shoots off to portal to see if he is right

EDIT: /me is devistated to find he is wrong

I could of told you that

#8 · April 18, 2008, 7:52 pm

does it need end quotations or not?

#9 · May 10, 2008, 7:12 pm

cant you add a command to make the autportals reopen? so it also does that when doing "R"? i guess it would be possible but i dont know ... i never config scripted b4 xD i made a pistol script for cs once.

if you could i got an idea to cheat using the script xD in the lvl

Spoiler

that you also get to later in the escape lvls where the elevator isnt there, you just go though the cleanser and press r then the outside autoportal comes back and you place one inside and take the storage cube inside... but why do that when you can do it the real way?

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How to close Portals