Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 5:21 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

Taken from thread "Quick Question From New Member"

Makes me laugh too.

Quote from pestchamber on July 31, 2009, 5:24 pm

Holy shit! We made a new page in only about an hour! let's keep it up!

Changing the subject again (to keep it up):
What makes the portals unable to be placed on the metal walls?

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 5:28 pm

pestchamber wrote:

Holy shit! We made a new page in only about an hour! let's keep it up!

Changing the subject again (to keep it up):
What makes the portals unable to be placed on the metal walls?

Concrete walls are more flat than metal ones, so a portal can fit more perfectly.

Quote from pestchamber on July 31, 2009, 5:57 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

Concrete walls are more flat than metal ones, so a portal can fit more perfectly.

lol

You mean something like this?

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 6:01 pm

pestchamber wrote:

lol

You mean something like this?

Something more like this:

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 6:06 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

Concrete walls are more flat than metal ones, so a portal can fit more perfectly.

I must respectfully disagree. I'm pretty sure concrete is a much rougher surface than metal. Metal can be made very smooth; do the concrete walls in Portal look all that flawless? If anything, I would think it would have something to do with the way that the "seed" of the wormhole (the orb shot from the ASHPD) takes "root" in the surface. It may be that the various imperfections, notches, grooves, etc. in a surface allow a sort of foothold for the portal to form and expand. Same with glass; that can be made incredibly smooth as well. The reason a portal simply bounces off metal/glass may be that it just slides off the surface until it fragments and dissolves.

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Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 6:10 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

Metal can be made very smooth; do the concrete walls in Portal look all that flawless?

The point is that metal surface is simply separated into the segments you see in any Portal level, and not one of them is able to accomodate a portal.

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 6:13 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

The point is that metal surface is simply separated into the segments you see in any Portal level, and not one of them is able to accomodate a portal.

Good point...but...now that I think about it...can't you create portals over the borders between concrete slabs?

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 6:16 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

Good point...but...now that I think about it...can't you create portals over the borders between concrete slabs?

Yes, you can because the concrete slabs are more smooth than metal ones.