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Portal Level!!!

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So, I'm trying to take full advantage of the new tools the MGS4 pack gave us (like everyone is). So I've started a level loosely based on the popular game, Portal. So I need some fans of the game here to give me some feedback on how my Portal level works.

Seeing the limitations of LBP, I immediately decided on having to shoot portals on what I call "Portal Pads" which you shoot with the paintball gun, making dissolve disappear so you can continue, which seems like the most realistic way to make a Portal level. The portals are basically doors which disappear when you hit them. So far, that's really all they are, which really isn't original and I may change it. I've been thinking about you having to shoot a portal, then enter the path it just opened. You won't be able to see what's happening, but what could happen is that there are platforms with proximity switches on them. They push you throughout the tunnel and get you out the other portal. I might actually just scrap the whole idea entirely, I like playing levels based on videogames, but I'm not really a fan of making levels based on them. Any suggestions?		2009-01-07 01:34:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

If you can make it look realy good and make it work i think it would be awsome2009-01-07 01:44:00

Author:
Sonic5411
Posts: 712

The only way I could think of make a portal would be using a checkpoint and make it move2009-01-07 02:19:00

Author:
Defaultsound
Posts: 137

but then you'd have to kill yourself to get to it :l2009-01-07 02:39:00

Author:
Trap_T
Posts: 431

I've nearly finished every planet now 2009-01-07 03:28:00

Author:
Sackboy66
Posts: 42

I've nearly finished every planet now

2009-01-07 03:29:00

Author:
Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250

hey, for once i do not have a concept on how to make this level work the way or atleast similiar to the game, my brain hurts now maybe someone else can come up with something because i am stumped, and i am a really good guy to talk to about concepts *sigh* well... GOOD LUCK

Cheers!		2009-01-07 03:55:00

Author:
RAINFIRE
Posts: 1101

The closest thing I can see to portals without actually using checkpoints and suiciding... would be like hidden doors that take you behind the level and to the specified warp point.

Like make it so the two doors only open if the paint switches have both been shot.

I dont know.... not sure how to do this properly...		2009-01-07 03:57:00

Author:
Trap_T
Posts: 431

Good luck. I couldn't figure out a way to make a portal contraption so I just tried to capture the essence of Portal instead.2009-01-07 07:05:00

Author:
Voltiare
Posts: 646

i have an idea. dont know how good it is though. have an entrance. make it go behind a wall.behind the wall you can have a little passage or tube made out of glass that goes to where you want to exit. make a platform of some sort probably rounded so it will slide through the glss tunnel better. put a rocket on it? i dont know i never even heard of portal but if i was trying to make one id think thats how i would try to do it. hope i helped.2009-01-08 20:35:00

Author:
Kitkasumass
Posts: 494

Yeah it would be really hard to do this, I say the idea of shooting the walls to make them open up is cool. I would maybe play portal and get a feel of a level that would work in LBP, instead of trying to do what portal does. Like do the ending, and create enemies that look like the ones from the game, and than have the last boss of portal as your boss. That would be cool, put things within the game, saying "the cake is a LIE" and stuff from the game. So scratch the portal, and just create a similiar level, there are so many to use, that is what I would do.2009-01-08 20:58:00

Author:
Darth_Spartan
Posts: 813

It's gonna need a REALLY crisp and proffessional finish.
People always compare levels based on other games to the actual games, so the closer it is, the more kudos for you 		2009-01-08 21:04:00

Author:
Pinchanzee
Posts: 805

Yeah it would be really hard to do this, I say the idea of shooting the walls to make them open up is cool. I would maybe play portal and get a feel of a level that would work in LBP, instead of trying to do what portal does. Like do the ending, and create enemies that look like the ones from the game, and than have the last boss of portal as your boss. That would be cool, put things within the game, saying "the cake is a LIE" and stuff from the game. So scratch the portal, and just create a similiar level, there are so many to use, that is what I would do.

This may be one of the best things I've heard in this thread.		2009-01-08 22:27:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

sooo.. my idea wins? D:2009-01-08 22:29:00

Author:
Trap_T
Posts: 431

I just came up with this using the checkpoint.

Have a checkpoint built to move along y and x axis. Then on a second layer you would create a massie grid for the whole level with key switches on each grid space. Then make a portal type object that emits orange blobs or something with the keys on them and then make the checkpoint move to where ever was shot. and how you would do that I don't know but I think it could be done.

223		2009-01-08 23:00:00

Author:
Defaultsound
Posts: 137

It'd require a lot of paint switches and wiring to detect which section the paint was hit and then to move the check point to that section X_X

I already was thinking about an idea like this.. but I think it's a bit complicated to do on LBP... unless you're good at programming and know how to make ANDs and IFs... lots of them.

I dont think it'd be possible to do it with only one piston for the x axis and one piston for the y axis.		2009-01-08 23:03:00

Author:
Trap_T
Posts: 431

You better wait untill they actually just create "portals"
eventually they probably will.		2009-01-09 12:12:00

Author:
Luos_83
Posts: 2136

Well, the infinite checkpoint trick still works no? If so, then you could move the checkpoint around.

Still, a very hard concept to implement well.		2009-01-09 20:02:00

Author:
Thegide
Posts: 1465

infinite checkpoint trick

how.. could you explain?		2009-01-09 22:15:00

Author:
Luos_83
Posts: 2136

You better wait untill they actually just create "portals"
eventually they probably will.

I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt that.		2009-01-09 23:00:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

why would you doubt that,
its a very good way to get from point a to b.
if not in a certain bonus pack,
it might be in lbp2.

mark my words 		2009-01-09 23:03:00

Author:
Luos_83
Posts: 2136

why would you doubt that,
its a very good way to get from point a to b.
if not in a certain bonus pack,
it might be in lbp2.

mark my words

It's not "impossible" to make a portal. I'm sure there are tons of way to make something to the same effect. We just need to think outside the box, and that's what MM wants.		2009-01-09 23:18:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

Not sure if you've played it or not but check out Teleporter by TOBSn08...might give you some good ideas.2009-01-10 00:10:00

Author:
Jaeyden
Posts: 564

Someone made a working portal system. Forget the PSN, just search through the tag: "Portal" levels with over 100 hearts and you'll find it.2009-01-10 07:38:00

Author:
whatisnarwhal
Posts: 164

Not sure if you've played it or not but check out Teleporter by TOBSn08...might give you some good ideas.

Ehhh ... but thats not a portal >,< ...

Thats just moving checkpoint ...		2009-01-13 21:50:00

Author:
RagnaMohawk
Posts: 11

I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt that.

I dunno, Mm did say something a while back that they previously had plans for a game that was "more portally than portal".

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/30/littlebigplanet-devs-were-making-something-more-portally-than-p/



Ehhh ... but thats not a portal >,< ...

Thats just moving checkpoint ...

It's a good compromise, and it opened up some cool puzzles.		2009-01-13 22:43:00

Author:
Ace
Posts: 118

I dunno, Mm did say something a while back that they previously had plans for a game that was "more portally than portal".

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/30/littlebigplanet-devs-were-making-something-more-portally-than-p/




It's a good compromise, and it opened up some cool puzzles.

Never heard of that before :O !!!

I wonder what it is ...		2009-01-13 22:53:00

Author:
Senrir
Posts: 126

I know for a fact someone made this exact thing. Its a portal level where the portals you shoot stay open for 6 seconds. Just look at my hearted list under my psn (nyahbingi). Its call portal, something. I will update this post when I get home2009-01-13 23:29:00

Author:
tyboogie
Posts: 96

Im back home now. The level that I was referring to is called portal with portal gun by cykelpumpen. Very innovative stuff he did. I think he accomplished what the OP was referring to.2009-01-14 03:04:00

Author:
tyboogie
Posts: 96


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