How do I remove a portal without shooting it somewhere else?

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On Test Chamber Junkie and some other places I have seen Portals removed using a macro on the mouse, does anyone know how to do this?

[☭TSAR_]

Go to settings and bind a key to do it

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There is no option to remove portals in the settings

[laevent]

Originally posted by The Singularity:

There is no option to remove portals in the settings

There never was a remove portal setting. I've owned portal 2 since December 2012. I pretty much like the graphics but it takes a little while to calculate the lightning when I wanna test my testchambers before I publish them.

[MilleniumLuigi]

Originally posted by Pengychat2:

Originally posted by The Singularity:

There is no option to remove portals in the settings

There never was a remove portal setting. I've owned portal 2 since December 2012. I pretty much like the graphics but it takes a little while to calculate the lightning when I wanna test my testchambers before I publish them.

*slow clap* great way to get totally off topic, man, it must be hard to go from not having a setting to remove portals to taking a while to calculate lighting. props. *hands trophy*

[TeamSpen210]

If you enter the command "bind x prop_portal 'setactivatedstate 0'" that should make the x key destroy all portals. If you use "bind x !picker 'setactivatedstate 0'" that'll only destroy portals you're looking at directly. You can change x to be any character.

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Originally posted by TeamSpen210:

If you enter the command "bind x prop_portal 'setactivatedstate 0'" that should make the x key destroy all portals. If you use "bind x !picker 'setactivatedstate 0'" that'll only destroy portals you're looking at directly. You can change x to be any character.

I know how to make it delete all portals, but how do I say, make the x key delete the blue portal, and m delete the orange portal?

[Brash Candicoot]

Originally posted by TeamSpen210:

If you enter the command "bind x prop_portal 'setactivatedstate 0'" that should make the x key destroy all portals. If you use "bind x !picker 'setactivatedstate 0'" that'll only destroy portals you're looking at directly. You can change x to be any character.

The correct command is :

bind "r" "ent_fire prop_portal fizzle"

. bind x prop_portal 'setactivatedstate 0 will do nothing. You can replace the "r" for whatever key you want, I just think it's the most convenient.

[TeamSpen210]

I messed that command up. It should be (bind x "ent_fire !picker setactivatedstate 0"), which does do the same thing as the Fizzle input.

[Brash Candicoot]

Originally posted by TeamSpen210:

I messed that command up. It should be (bind x "ent_fire !picker setactivatedstate 0"), which does do the same thing as the Fizzle input.

Oh ok

[Maevended]

Originally posted by Moltar:

Originally posted by TeamSpen210:

I messed that command up. It should be (bind x "ent_fire !picker setactivatedstate 0"), which does do the same thing as the Fizzle input.

you have to have sv cheats on though

[Big Floppa]

I want to it also clear the indicator of portals, how could i do that?

[Clantis]

Originally posted by The Companion Cube:

I want to it also clear the indicator of portals, how could i do that?

You cant. just place a portal and go through a fizzler or just deal with it.

[shitz.exe]

Since the portal entities you create have no names, the ent_fire prop_portal <whatever> acts on all portal entities in the world. Meaning you can't really do this.
A hack I can think of, though it's level-based inside Hammer, is using the editor, bind a user's key using a console command, or just make a standard button do it, to open a named orange portal somewhere in the map, then close that orange portal. That would remove the player's portal.

[Koishi]

some test chambers actually require you not to be able to remove specific portals with the touch of a button, because it's part of the puzzle

[Prismisho]

go toa fizzler