Why has nobody...

[Moto]

...modded the portal gun into Half-Life 2? Yes, I know that you can play HL2 maps in portal, but that kind of sucks because there's no dialogue, tons of sounds are missing, it crashes randomly, etc. It seems like with mods such as SMOD putting tons of completely custom weapons in the game, it should be totally possible to mod an already made gun into HL2 and its episodes. I mean, both games use the source engine and all the files for the portal gun are in the GCFs. What's the deal?

I have no idea how to do it, but there are so many people who have done amazing things with the source engine. Surely it can be done.

I've searched for a mod, but all I found were pages talking about how you can extract HL2 maps and scenes into portal. Well of course you can, where's the big surprise in that? You can do the same thing with CS:S too if you want.

Anybody seen or heard anything?

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

I would love this to happen. Seriously

 

[Acepilotf14]

I just played some HL2 levels in portal, and there are no sounds and no animations. It was interesting, but it would make the entire game super easy since you can just skip certain parts, although it'd be funny.

 

[Lizardizzle]

that's the point.... He wants to play hl2, and put the portal gun in

 

[Barnz]

We don't have the source code for Portal.

 

[ríomhaire]

There's the Exite mod.

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

There's the Exite mod.

I prefer the one made by VALVe, their gun shot actual portals, not just one end here, one end here, and it teleports you.

 

[tschumann]

all the files for the portal gun are in the GCFs

the files we need are compiled and therefore unusable.
also, if it could be done it would have been done long before now.

 

[Lizardizzle]

Is there a file to the "Impulse 101" command? And if there was, would it be possible to put the compiled portal gun into it?

 

[tschumann]

no.

anyway, it's all in the client.dll and server.dll which are compiled into something the computer can understand but we can't. impulse 101 isn't in any file; it's compiled in with the portalgun and everything else etc etc...
perhaps you should read up on programming to fully understand why you can't do what you said.