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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / January 2008anyone know of any good portal add-ons or mods?
I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. Anyone know of any good portal add-ons or mods?  Signatureto reply via email - remove the "nospam_" from the reply to address ... >I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. > > Anyone know of any good portal add-ons or mods? http://www.portalgamemaps.com/index.cfm?pg=1&sid=38 Cows portal map, AB test, Sidewinder, Stations are very good. I haven't tried them all so there's bound to be more good ones. If you want difficulty try Saved by the cake and SS Orangebox. I can't get either one. Anyone that does please post a walkthrough here. Have fun. >>I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Have fun. Thanks!! I will check them out!! riggor schrieb: > I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. > > Anyone know of any good portal add-ons or mods? How about the ability to play through Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-powered games with the portal gun in-hand? This is not a real mod, but a very funny thing to do, believe me ;) http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/ > riggor schrieb: >> I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/ Neat....I wonder if this will be in episode 3? >> riggor schrieb: >>> I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Neat....I wonder if this will be in episode 3? That is insane!...It'd make HL2 a very easy game though.... >> riggor schrieb: >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Neat....I wonder if this will be in episode 3? I doubt it - This is just a couple of HL fans who have imported HL2 maps into the Portal folder (it works because Portal's .dll is a HL2-based modification, and allows access to all HL2 content). I noticed a comment about trying this with CS:S and TF2 - something which almost certainly couldn't work, since the CS:S and TF2 content isn't available to mods as standard. For that matter, I don't believe that Valve ever released an SDK for portal *[1], which is a shame, because it means that noone will ever be able to take Valve's portal code and modify it (It would have to be rewritten from scratch). This pretty much kills any hope of a portal DM mod, unfortunately. *[1] I could be wrong about this, its been a while since I looked into the SDK Source code. SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" Ben Cottrell schrieb: >>> riggor schrieb: >>> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > For that matter, I don't believe that Valve ever released an SDK for > portal *[1], [...] An SDK for Portal already exists! Here you can download and upload costum maps http://portalmaps.net/ > An SDK for Portal already exists! Here you can download and upload > costum maps You misunderstand - To create a map merely needs an FGD file and Hammer/Worldcraft or some other mapping tool. SDK stands for Software Developers' Kit, in other words, DLL source code which allows you to extend portal's game functionality (Such as has been released for HL2 and HL2DM). Audio/visual content such as maps, models, textures and sound do not change the underlying functionality of portal itself - the game's behaviour is still Portal, even if it looks like HL2. Since multiplayer comes under the 'functionality' category, there'd be no way to force portal to work properly in multiplayer, unless it had already been coded in the DLL (It may have been, though I'm not aware of it - Portal was supposed to be SP only AFAIK). The same would be true for any co-existence with portal between CS:S and TF2 content, eg, getting portal to behave like CS:S. The most you'd be able to do would be import models/maps, and get the game to 'look' like CS:S or TF2. SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" > *[1] I could be wrong about this, its been a while since I looked into the > SDK Source code. The new SDK for modifying OB games has been released as Beta today "To run this beta version you will need to add -beta srcsdk0122 to your command line when you start Steam." http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_SDK_Release_Notes - Peter >> *[1] I could be wrong about this, its been a while since I looked into >> the SDK Source code. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > command line when you start Steam." > http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_SDK_Release_Notes That's good news :) Valve's wiki only mentions Ep2 though. I really do hope they add portal to the list of available Source SDK base mods :) SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" |
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