Portal-Life and more!

[Evo]

The PC Gamer guys have a blog here which details how you can get the Portal gun to work in Half-Life 2! Now obviously this is not advised by Valve, but if you do dare experiment then you will need GCFScape and then just to follow the guide here.[br]In related news, over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun there is a an article featuring a video by Matt Malesky showing us how to get the Portal weapon into HL2 Death Match maps, however any actual online gaming is yet to appear![br]Finally there is a lengthy feature called Valve's Virtuosity here from Next-Gen-Biz providing information on the Orange Box and many other tidbits of information from Valve!

 

[Zaph]

Holy fudgecicle! That's awesome!
You can see it in action here.

 

[mchammer75040]

lol at the bottle part. man thats farkin awesome

 

[Rapstah]

Just a quick explanation: this won't work in any game except for Half-Life 2. The reason this works is because for some reason the Half-Life 2 weapons and NPCs were left in Portal. You can't repeat this with CSS.

 

[Xendance]

That was crap playing it in HL2.

 

[Zaph]

I just tried it, and it is indeed, pretty awesome. Well, until the game crashed, anyway. There probably some trouble with certain scripted events. And of course, it's very easy to avoid triggers when you're placing portals all over the place in a fit of glee. Anyway, if you hunger for a new Portal experience, this is a excellent opportunity to satisfy your cravings. Mmm, portals.

 

[xrikazen]

Very cool. I'll have to try it when I get home.

Never doubted that would be possible - I actually thought it would have happened on the 10th.

 

[k3ithrm]

Can someone please tell me how to do this!

Holy ****, never mind I forget to READ it. Stupid.

 

[ibex]

Oh, exploitable!!!

 

[Iron_cube]

You guys are making this sound like a big official uber secret that absolutely no one knew about :hmph:

The npcs are completely mute, including their weapons, that alone makes it worthless.

 

[Operational]

You guys are making this sound like a big official uber secret that absolutely no one knew about :hmph:

The npcs are completely mute, including their weapons, that alone makes it worthless.

Are you seriously calling playing around with Portals and combat worthless because it's not 100% perfect?

 

[TheMtR]

Just a quick explanation: this won't work in any game except for Half-Life 2. The reason this works is because for some reason the Half-Life 2 weapons and NPCs were left in Portal. You can't repeat this with CSS.

actually you can, just copy maps, models and materials from css gfc to portal folder. I can post screen if you want!

 

[Kyorisu]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun[/url] there is a an article featuring a video by Matt Malesky showing us how to get the Portal weapon into HL2 Death Match maps, however any actual online gaming is yet to appear!

Because without even watching that video I know all that's been done is copying a DM level into Portal/Maps. Portal being a singleplayer game is not designed to work for MP, so it won't happen.

 

[Dr. G. Freeman]

I wonder, you could see Chell in the Portal (cause that's who you played as) I wonder if you could see Gordon Freeman in HL2????

 

[CLASSIFIED]

Portal weapon is pretty useless on HL2. You can't make funny stuff like messing with NPCs and shooting through the Portal. All you can do is step into it and find yourself in the other side. It's not that fun.. you can just do the noclip if you want to just travel the map. What's cool is exploring the portals in HL world. But I would rather do something else

EDIT: hmm actually exploring the beginning of the game would be cool (hey look, I walk between you) well just until you find out the level is not complete because it wasn't designed so you get there

 

[Zaph]

Portal weapon is pretty useless on HL2. You can't make funny stuff like messing with NPCs and shooting through the Portal.

Wait, what? You can shoot through the portals!
And throw grenades and other physics objects.
It's awesome how you can open a portal behind enemies and
shoot them in the back while they are shooting at you. Yeah.

 

[soulslicer]

I wonder, you could see Chell in the Portal (cause that's who you played as) I wonder if you could see Gordon Freeman in HL2????

wow, I never thought of that. you win..

 

[Xendance]

I wonder, you could see Chell in the Portal (cause that's who you played as) I wonder if you could see Gordon Freeman in HL2????

Why would you see Gordon?
Firstly, theres no third person model for Gordon, just a black figure with an orange (his suit) arm.
Second, you load up PORTAL, not Half Life 2. Obviously you will see Chell, since your playing Portal.

Common sense.