Ping-controlled Portal Gun Pedestal

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

A Co-op variant of the Portal Gun Pedestal, which shoots portals where the player uses their ping tool. This would have Button Type to choose one of three variants:

Weighted: Singleplayer Portal Gun which cannot be picked up. This will fire a blue Portal where Atlas pings, and a orange portal where P-Body pings.
Cube: Atlas' portal gun. This will only react to their pings and can only be picked up by them.
Sphere: P-body's Portal Gun. This will only react to their pings and can only be picked up by them.

Placing the Cube or Sphere variants in the map would remove the gun from the respective player(s). This would have connections - when disabled, it would not react to pings. This will alternate between the primary/secondary portal (except weighted).

andremiles1 commented 7 years ago

I don't know if this is possible

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

Play co-op. It is.

Endermage77 commented 7 years ago

For reference: see the first room of the calibration course in Co-Op. There is a ping-controlled portal gun pedestal for both players that can be picked up.

FrozenDragon0 commented 7 years ago

Nice suggestion however making this in hammer would take a lot of time since it needs a lot of complicated logic.

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

We could use a script.

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

Oh, I almost forgot: it will alternate between firing the primary and secondary portals.

TeamSpen210 commented 7 years ago

It doesn't need a script, Valve actually implemented an entity for this behaviour.

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

What is it?

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

@TeamSpen210

vrad-exe commented 7 years ago

Oh, I just thought of a good idea for the SP gun. I'll update the original post.

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