dynamic portals with Ogre, real cool !

codewalker · Post by **codewalker** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:58 pm

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Moving through dynamic portals, coded in Ogre,
this is seriously cool stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy9i-aNCuw

Greetings.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:19 pm

Wow! Valve made some bucks with Portal, their game that was based on the same thing... Nice to know that it's possible not only with the Source Engine

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Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:14 am

2 Billboards...
2 cameras rendering to the billboard texture...

If entity collides it gets located at the other billboard...

Depending on the player FOV the cameras get rotated so it gives the impression there is something on the other side...

dna · Post by **dna** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:20 am

That's a really good job.

I thought that the game portal had something special.

I guess not.

Good Job

Foz · Post by **Foz** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:14 am

It did have something special: It was a very polished game.

The actual "how" to do it is not hard.

Designing the levels to keep you enticed, now that is hard. Valve did cheat a bit - GlaDOS helped break the monotany.

In fact, I'd say that without GlaDOS, it would have enticed people for about 5 minutes before they uninstalled it.