Do Portals Work in Skyrim?

[Magic Spazm]

I'm talking about the graphical effect. If so is there a mod that uses them?

[Fear2288]

Do you mean like, an actual portal?

As in you enter it in Riften and seamlessly step out into Solitude?

I don’t think the engine could even remotely handle that.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Fear2288:

Do you mean like, an actual portal?

As in you enter it in Riften and seamlessly step out into Solitude?

I don’t think the engine could even remotely handle that.

Pretty much. It'll just make you go through a loading screen.

[xybolt]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Fear2288:

As in you enter it in Riften and seamlessly step out into Solitude?

I don’t think the engine could even remotely handle that.

There is a "portal" somewhere that allows you to access Sovngarde in the base game already. Or those portals you can find in Forgotten Vale. Not to mention that paragon portal that selects its destination by using a proper paragon. It is just some marker scripting and fast travel combined.

@OP I remembered a mod that may offer what you want; void gate[www.nexusmods.com]. There are probably other similar mods you can use.

[Magic Spazm]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xybolt:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Fear2288:

As in you enter it in Riften and seamlessly step out into Solitude?

I don’t think the engine could even remotely handle that.

There is a "portal" somewhere that allows you to access Sovngarde in the base game already. Or those portals you can find in Forgotten Vale. Not to mention that paragon portal that selects its destination by using a proper paragon. It is just some marker scripting and fast travel combined.

@OP I remembered a mod that may offer what you want; void gate[www.nexusmods.com]. There are probably other similar mods you can use.

You missed the mark by a mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA82CD9YFG0
The game Portal and Portal 2 make significant use of the portal graphical effect. You see there's a 2D plane and you can see the perspective of the other 2D plane from it, walking through it teleports you to the other 2D plane. It's often used in other games to bridge spaces that would have conflicting geometry should they be directly modeled together.

[sansee]

Liminal Brigdes/Portals is closest: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6094
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/104212

But as for the graphical effect like in Valves Portal? Don't think so.

Works for Enderal too with a patch, and Liminal Portals is best as it "hums" or "waives". Cool effect nonetheless. https://www.nexusmods.com/enderalspecialedition/mods/608

[vee-kay]

Skyrim has had tons of portal mods over the years.

Here are a few..

Stargates of Skyrim - Portals of Skyrim Stargate Edition:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/94764

Portal - Dynamically Placed Teleportation SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20235

Shalidor's Migrant Portals SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17262

Liminal Portals:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/104212

Wayshrines of Tamriel:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3045

Skyrim Town Portals and Followers Spells:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43504

CC - Placeable Teleportation Pads:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/14879

Portal Gun:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15673&searchtext

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqeL9gwSQU

[Magic Spazm]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย vee-kay:

Skyrim has had tons of portal mods over the years.

Here are a few..

Stargates of Skyrim - Portals of Skyrim Stargate Edition:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/94764

Portal - Dynamically Placed Teleportation SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20235

Shalidor's Migrant Portals SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17262

Liminal Portals:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/104212

Skyrim Town Portals and Followers Spells:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43504

Portal Gun:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15673&searchtext

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqeL9gwSQU

Do any of those actually make the window effect of a portal?

[alexander_dougherty]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xybolt:

There is a "portal" somewhere that allows you to access Sovngarde in the base game already. Or those portals you can find in Forgotten Vale. Not to mention that paragon portal that selects its destination by using a proper paragon. It is just some marker scripting and fast travel combined.

@OP I remembered a mod that may offer what you want; void gate[www.nexusmods.com]. There are probably other similar mods you can use.

You missed the mark by a mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA82CD9YFG0
The game Portal and Portal 2 make significant use of the portal graphical effect. You see there's a 2D plane and you can see the perspective of the other 2D plane from it, walking through it teleports you to the other 2D plane. It's often used in other games to bridge spaces that would have conflicting geometry should they be directly modeled together.

The game isn't coded for that, it won't work.
What would happen is you would get a loading screen each time you used a portal, no a smooth transition like in the Portal game, which has an engine coded specifically for it.

[vee-kay]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย vee-kay:

Skyrim has had tons of portal mods over the years.

Here are a few..

Stargates of Skyrim - Portals of Skyrim Stargate Edition:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/94764

Portal - Dynamically Placed Teleportation SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20235

Shalidor's Migrant Portals SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17262

Liminal Portals:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/104212

Skyrim Town Portals and Followers Spells:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43504

Portal Gun:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15673&searchtext

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqeL9gwSQU

Do any of those actually make the window effect of a portal?

If you had bothered to click through any of the links to those mods, you would have found the answer to your question to be a YES.

[vee-kay]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย alexander_dougherty:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

You missed the mark by a mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA82CD9YFG0
The game Portal and Portal 2 make significant use of the portal graphical effect. You see there's a 2D plane and you can see the perspective of the other 2D plane from it, walking through it teleports you to the other 2D plane. It's often used in other games to bridge spaces that would have conflicting geometry should they be directly modeled together.

The game isn't coded for that, it won't work.
What would happen is you would get a loading screen each time you used a portal, no a smooth transition like in the Portal game, which has an engine coded specifically for it.

The loading screen would occur only if the destination is a different "cell".
Within the same cell, the teleportation through the portal is instantaneous.

The portal gun mod and video I had linked in my previous comment demonstrates that - it's actually a Blink teleportation rather than portal-transfer (fast travel), And Blink is a vanilla mechanism in the game.

There are several mods that leverage the Blink mechanism well. Here are a few more:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/jo7pm3/looking_for_blinkteleport_power_ability/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/vld5h7/alternative_to_blink_spell_for_ae/

Flash Step:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqCs7Dvl3IA&t=54s

Magical Blink:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/106085

Jaxonz Blink Teleport SE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7978?tab=files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHoPHYiY0w

Psijic Teleport Spells - SSE:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of65ykI1Eh8

Blink Spells SSE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETh5vv4FV6k

Voidgate - A simple town portal mod for Skyrim (Updated):
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMIQrLM6l4

[Magic Spazm]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย vee-kay:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

Do any of those actually make the window effect of a portal?

If you had bothered to click through any of the links to those mods, you would have found the answer to your question to be a YES.

Ok I wasted my time and clicked them, the answer would be NO. None of them have a windowing effect to them.

[vee-kay]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย vee-kay:

If you had bothered to click through any of the links to those mods, you would have found the answer to your question to be a YES.

Ok I wasted my time and clicked them, the answer would be NO. None of them have a windowing effect to them.

You didn't waste your time, because answers you got here, are actually apt for your query.
You merely didn't bother to agree with them, because you seem to have some warped (pun intended) concept of what a portal is.

The mod that @Sansee linked (Liminal Bridges) has the glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.
The first mod I linked (Stargates of Skyrim) itself has the glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.
Other mods (Shalidor's Migrant Portals SE, and Voidgates) also have that glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.

At this point, I feel like you are trolling us, and hence wasting our time.

If you don't like any of these beautiful mods, and if you have a better concept of what a portal in Skyrim should be, then go ahead and create your own mod for your portal concept, and share the link here, so we can see how it's better than these mods.

I have a hunch you don't understand Skyrim game engine's limitations, and think that modders can replicate Portal game in Skyrim without issues. Short answer: they cannot - because of game engine limitations. Hence they haven't.

[Mez Koo]

As others have said the game can not open a window through space time to show you a real time picture of what is going on on the other end. If the graphical effect is the only thing you're after then you can either make your own mod or try to find one that puts up a still image of the place you want as a texture over a portal, it won't be real time like Portal the game but it will serve a close enough purpose to show you where you are going to fast travel to.

Honestly it is kind of surprising that all the portal mods listed just show a magical orb instead of a picture of where it is going but I guess a magical orb looks better than a flat image but they could've dress it up with a phasing effect and glowing edges.

[Magic Spazm]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย vee-kay:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Magic Spazm:

Ok I wasted my time and clicked them, the answer would be NO. None of them have a windowing effect to them.

You didn't waste your time, because answers you got here, are actually apt for your query.
You merely didn't bother to agree with them, because you seem to have some warped (pun intended) concept of what a portal is.

The mod that @Sansee linked (Liminal Bridges) has the glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.
The first mod I linked (Stargates of Skyrim) itself has the glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.
Other mods (Shalidor's Migrant Portals SE, and Voidgates) also have that glowing window/doorway effect for the portals.

At this point, I feel like you are trolling us, and hence wasting our time.

If you don't like any of these beautiful mods, and if you have a better concept of what a portal in Skyrim should be, then go ahead and create your own mod for your portal concept, and share the link here, so we can see how it's better than these mods.

I have a hunch you don't understand Skyrim game engine's limitations, and think that modders can replicate Portal game in Skyrim without issues. Short answer: they cannot - because of game engine limitations. Hence they haven't.

Considering the actual terminology for what I'm describing is a portal, I think you have the warped sense of a portal since the mods you linked are just doorways.

[Mez Koo]

Now that I think of it, weren't there actual "Portal" portals in the dawnguard dlc as shrines or something?