So, I'm making a portal gun, and was wondering how you guys want your controls to be like. What I've thought of so far:

Closing both portals - Reload portal gun
Shoot Blue Portal - Fire
Shoot Yellow/Red Portal - Fire + Pie Menu

But I don't like the bottom two that much.

I'd have it fire alternating portals with the option of firing a repeat portal by pie menu or something. Reload deletes all portals. New portals replace old.

You could have two versions, one with piemenu controls and one with keypresses.

Why not have one press fire a blue and double tapping fire a orange?

I'd prefer the "Dual weapon mode template", using golddig ai to swap between the two portal guns.

Reload as closing both portals is fine.
Why do you have to make shooting the portals complicated though?
Just have fire open the Orange and the act of opening the pie menu (quick tapping) fire Blue.

How about click once, blue comes out, click again, orange comes out, and have 2 keys be blue and orange at the same time?

Why would you ever want this?

This is the only part of your post that makes sense. I thought about this, but you wouldn't be able to choose the portal you want to shoot.



The script on the gun's projectile would have to see if the portal gun is currently held, and has to be created in the first place some how. It's enirely possible to have a script pseudo-attached to the gun, but that method is unreliable for this case.



I don't want to use the duel weapons mode script for this, because most of it works on psuedo-attached scripts, and isn't 100% reliable.



I like this method, might use it.



What do you mean by "piemenu controls and one with keypresses?"



Sounds good, I just need to figure out what keys to use.


BTW, I figured out controls for mouse users:
Fire + Scroll Up - Fire Blue Portal
Fire + Scroll Down - Fire Red/Orange/Yellow Portal
Reload - Remove both portals

Another thing - Do you want the portal gun to shoot energy balls that make portals (like in the actual game) or for the portals to spawn instantly? The latter is easier and more reliable.

Never mind what I said. Pillbox's idea is better.

This orthis. Or just have hot keyed firing.

This.

I will never make a mod that is a device with specific keybindings.

I love you so dearly cavecricket you don't even know

Oh how about like your SR3 rifle tap to fire a blue portal and hold longer for a orange portal.