Portal Linkage

#1 · June 16, 2012, 6:54 pm

I've been working on a variation on Laser Cubes which redirect portalgun shots, and they almost work now...except for one thing.

Whenever an external portalgun opens a blue portal, it refuses to link with the player's orange portal. But an external orange portal links just fine.

Why is that? It seems very strange. All linkages are set to 0.

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#2 · June 16, 2012, 7:59 pm

vmf or it didnt happen

I've had problems with linkages when using props and stuff... but I dont know if I can help without more info

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#3 · June 16, 2012, 8:55 pm

Thanks!

I'll post a VMF, but until then, here's what I'm doing: I modified the portal-gun-on-pedestal instance to fire portals, and have buttons to fire both. The orange one links, but the blue always stays closed, no matter what.

EDIT: VMF DL URL http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=2115

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#4 · June 17, 2012, 4:51 pm

SOLVED!

After some testing, it seemed that the portal gun was firing portals with linkage 1.

So if StartingTeamNum set to 0 fires with linkage 1...what happens with StartingTeamNum 1?

It turns out, it fires with linkage 0! Honestly, Valve...

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