No More Cows

[Patrickssj6]

In my 5 weeks of total loneliness (with parents...but without access to a computer or the most "superior"...no not gawd...the internet) 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.

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.

So what do I need?

The following things are not vital but they will improve gameplay a lot.

I need a weapon model. Anything Sci-Fi looking works.

I need a projectile model with flares and light effects also Sci-Fi looking. If no one is going to do this I'm going to try my luck on that.

The Portals themselves, nothing major. Scenery that look also Sci-Fi and some lighteffects etc.

For the tagging I need to ask some questions,maybe.


Next thing is to decide on which map this is going to take place.
You guys can suggest any map that makes sense in your opinion to put a Portal Gun in. Custom or Standard, doesn't matter.

My vote goes to Danger Canyon.

Any suggestions and helping hands are welcome

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.

[Tweek]

OOH OOH i want to do the model plzkthnx

make some little scribbls of what you want, 1 handed, 2 handed, edge, rounded crap like that. i've got some ideas, aim me.
and now im gonna shove a pizza in the oven so bbl

[teh lag]

there is no cow level what?

This would be cool in H2v, especially because you can have camera-map shaders, and you could get a model that would render a camera from one portal to another, making for visual awesomes.

[Patrickssj6]

there is no cow level what?

This would be cool in H2v, especially because you can have camera-map shaders, and you could get a model that would render a camera from one portal to another, making for visual awesomes.

0_0

If we could get that to work.

and you can take the old portal gun for reference (only if you want)

[thehoodedsmack]

I'd be interested in helping. I'll make a gun model, and you can decide whether you like Teeks, or mine, or whoever else submits.

[Tweek]

we both know mine will be da winnar
just look at my awesome avatar.
it's :awesome:

[thehoodedsmack]

^ I guess I can't argue with that. I've come to the decision that I shouldn't bury myself in another project. It's all yours, Tweek.

[dcemuser]

I saw your portal gun videos and agree that this would be AWESOME!

[Bastinka]

Pretty cool!
I wish I could help, but I don't even come close to tweeks :awesome: models.

[Arteen]

Next thing is to decide on which map this is going to take place.
You guys can suggest any map that makes sense in your opinion to put a Portal Gun in. Custom or Standard, doesn't matter.

My vote goes to Danger Canyon.

It'd be cool to stick it in a custom map, to give more attention to some underappreciated custom map. There are a lot of those. But for stock maps, I suggest Ice Fields because it looks like it would be fun to mess with vehicles on the bridge.