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Author:  CaveCricket48 [ Mon May 17, 2010 3:25 pm ]
Post subject:  How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
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.
Author:  411570N3 [ Mon May 17, 2010 3:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
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.
Author:  Lizardheim [ Mon May 17, 2010 3:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
You could have two versions, one with piemenu controls and one with keypresses.
Author:  p3lb0x [ Mon May 17, 2010 4:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
Why not have one press fire a blue and double tapping fire a orange?
Author:  alphagamer774 [ Mon May 17, 2010 4:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
I'd prefer the "Dual weapon mode template", using golddig ai to swap between the two portal guns.
Author:  LowestFormOfWit [ Mon May 17, 2010 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
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.
Author:  Warguy [ Mon May 17, 2010 7:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
How about click once, blue comes out, click again, orange comes out, and have 2 keys be blue and orange at the same time? 8)
Author:  Petethegoat [ Mon May 17, 2010 7:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
Warguy wrote:
and have 2 keys be blue and orange at the same time? 8)

Why would you ever want this?
Author:  CaveCricket48 [ Mon May 17, 2010 8:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
Warguy wrote:
How about click once, blue comes out, click again, orange comes out

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.


LowestFormOfWit wrote:
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.

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.


alphagamer774 wrote:
I'd prefer the "Dual weapon mode template", using golddig ai to swap between the two portal guns.

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.


p3lb0x wrote:
Why not have one press fire a blue and double tapping fire a orange?

I like this method, might use it.


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

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


411570N3 wrote:
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.

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


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.
Author:  Lizardheim [ Mon May 17, 2010 8:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
Never mind what I said. Pillbox's idea is better.
Author:  hax [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
p3lb0x wrote:
Why not have one press fire a blue and double tapping fire a orange?

This or
Lizard wrote:
You could have two versions, one with piemenu controls and one with keypresses.
this. Or just have hot keyed firing.
Author:  dragonxp [ Mon May 17, 2010 11:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
hax wrote:
hot keyed firing.


This.
Author:  CaveCricket48 [ Tue May 18, 2010 12:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
dragonxp wrote:
hax wrote:
hot keyed firing.


This.


I will never make a mod that is a device with specific keybindings.
Author:  Grif [ Tue May 18, 2010 12:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
I love you so dearly cavecricket you don't even know
Author:  hax [ Tue May 18, 2010 12:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How would you want to control a Portal Gun?
Oh how about like your SR3 rifle tap to fire a blue portal and hold longer for a orange portal.
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