Portal Gun

[Patrickssj6]

Watch this first if you haven't already

I thought of bringing back the Portal Gun for HaloCE and then H2V in near future.

Me (and I think the other members who worked on the Portal Gun agree with this) were tired of hearing all those little kiddies who complain that it is impossible to metaswap a teleporter, or whatever they do with HMT, and tell us that this whole thing is fake.

So I thought of the following features:

-Multiplayer
-Syncing (Everyone can pick it up and shoot etc.)
-Attaches to Vehicles/Players (everyone that played the Portal UT Mod knows what I'm talking about)
-Public


How?

I have a theory about all the things that have to be done in order to work but ONLY the dedi server needs the app to be running and ALL client will be able to shoot and kill or whatever.

I don't want it to be a major success...even if it runs only for one day I would be happy because I'm sure it will be a lot of fun.

Progress Report 08/11/07:

-I asked Sunny to do the projectile and portal effects and he agreed to do them

-I finished almost all the code (some tests and I need Locke's help still on some things)

-We chose "Chiller" by NeuroKoNeza as the map of choice since it will suit this map very well. I hope I can get the permission from him since we have to modify the map. Pictures below.

-Tweek is still working on the weapon

-Public Beta soon

Portal_Chiller

Original Map:http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1723







Progress Report 08/16/07:

Well Sunny is pretty sick at the moment so I won't bother asking him how it goes cause he is doing this on his vacation somewhere else.

Team Members:

Programming / Theories / Founder - Patrickssj6
Programming / Execution / Founder - Locke
Memory / Research / Founder - BEEF!!!

Memory / Theories - Skyline
Memory / Execution - Limited
Testing / Ideas - Conscars

Weapon Modeling - Tweek3d
Map Chiller - NeuroKoNeza
Graphic Effects - SuperSunny & ?

and the unusual thing is that they are obsessed of releasing this lol...for now we have to wait for tweek and co to finish their things.

I don't know how much Sunny will do...but we may need someone for minor misc stuff...like shooting particles etc...

We had to change the whole concept so it's a 2 way portals now.

We also couldn't do secondary fire, instead the portals are going to change with each 2nd shot.

I cleaned my tags set and extracted all the tags from Chiller and got the permission from NeuroKoNeza to use his map.

[Tyler777]

i see another outstanding map!! 10/10 welp u know i could convert this if you give me permision

[Cryticfarm]

Are the tags protected?

[Tyler777]

idk if they are or arent i am asking if i can port it. mgulch was protected but the owner game me a unprotected version and thus me asking for permision

[JK-47]

I was wondering if you'd ever come back with something awesome to show us again, Patrick. This is pretty awesome, I can't wait for the beta.

[Patrickssj6]

Thanks JK-47

People, please understand this:

It's impossible I repeat IMPOSSIBLE to make a portal gun just like THAT in HaloCE. To do the impossible the server has to have a special application DESIGNED only for the HALO DED SERVER and only for THIS MAP (it may work on other maps but different). It costs us extensive effort to make this app and make everything look beautiful.

The portal gun mods on other engine are made possible due to that their engine is either A.newer or B.way more capable of doing things (Halo is pretty good too but just not for this stuff (H2 has some nice features that will come in handy "Camera Textures"))

So please don't sent me any PMs regarding about how to get it, cheating issues or whatever....it's just impossible...the application was designed only for this purpose...If you start doing memory hacking or have any knowledge about how memory is saved you know why this only works on this map...at least if you don't do heavily modifying.

[Veegie]

It's true.

[StalkingGrunt911]

Looks bad arse man. Nice job.