Change Green Time Portal to Match Original Portals

[PopinFRESH]

For the love of OCD, can you please make the time portal use the same portal visualization as the original blue and orange portals? The rectangular portal just looks so out of place to me.

[BurningCakeDoesAche]

People would confuse time portals and regular portals

[mattrearickdroid]

Not sure if you know much about hammer for map development, but he uses Linked Portal Doors (or World Portals as some refer to them) for the time portal. Those are square by default with no way to make them round that I am aware of.

The base portal color for the standard Portal gun portals (prop portals) cone from the player, only 2 colors at a time, portal 1 and portal 2 with single player as Blue/Orange, and Co-op as Light Blue/Blue and Red/Yellow.

Even if he changes the 2 portal colors he cannot set a third color for a third portal gun portal, so it would be a second Blue or Orange portal.

The only thing he could do would be adding a skin onto a 3rd portal gun portal like I did in my test video below (see the Red and Green swirl portal)

But the time portal being square adds a nice obvious change.

https://youtu.be/av_oPEgQRT0

[shamamoes]

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

For the love of OCD

thats a whole new level of OCD right there.

[PopinFRESH]

Originally posted by Shabaoe:

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

For the love of OCD

thats a whole new level of OCD right there.

Ha ha ha. Not as bad as people who have to open and close a door three times before they walk through it. :)

Originally posted by mattrearickdroid:

Not sure if you know much about hammer for map development, but he uses Linked Portal Doors (or World Portals as some refer to them) for the time portal. Those are square by default with no way to make them round that I am aware of.

The base portal color for the standard Portal gun portals (prop portals) cone from the player, only 2 colors at a time, portal 1 and portal 2 with single player as Blue/Orange, and Co-op as Light Blue/Blue and Red/Yellow.

Even if he changes the 2 portal colors he cannot set a third color for a third portal gun portal, so it would be a second Blue or Orange portal.

The only thing he could do would be adding a skin onto a 3rd portal gun portal like I did in my test video below (see the Red and Green swirl portal)

But the time portal being square adds a nice obvious change.

https://youtu.be/av_oPEgQRT0

Thanks for the technical explanation. Looked through the Hammer docs for the world portals and prop portals. Makes a bit more sense with the understanding their initial intent for functioning as a "fake" doorway to allow putting a room, or interior to exterior, in different areas of the map I can see why that was chosen for this implementation. Doors being normally rectangular it also makes sense that Valve didn't build it to have a different or modifiable shape.