Hi,
i wanted to create a portal for a game.
This is how the portal looks like:



now i want the player to see another view through this portal. im planing to put a model inside the door and render a camera on this model. but is it possible when the model is deformed, and not only a plane? if yes, how does it work?

would it bnot be enough, if you play a movie on the model-skin?

cause i want the people to see whats going on at the other side of the portal, and to create seamless ways through the portal.

view portalview
{
layer = -1;
flags = visible;
arc = 60;
}

action levelportal
{
portalview.bmap = bmap_for_entity(my,0);
vec_set(portalview.x, nullvector); // set the view positions here
vec_set(portalview.pan, nullvector); // set the view angles here
}

Here you´ve something to fiddle around. It works also on deformed models. I´ve used a 512*512 skin size (resize the skin in MED) but I haven´t used a skin at all. You could make the view transparent and use a skin to create a nice effect.

ok thanks, works perfect ^^

ok got it to work on my portal xD had lots of problems somehow q_q

Portal WIP!!!

if someone is interested.

Amazing!

Like the portals in Pray.
This is a very impressive technique!
Does this work with fogman's little script?

mercuryus

yeah, it renders the view to the skin of the model (the portal inside). and i just have a small room behind the room you can see. there is a second cam which is rotating around the tree and get rendered on the skin.

Absolute "geil"!

Idea: place the same model transparent before the portal and attach a noisy texture (flickering).
Idea: change view.arc with a looped function (sin/cos/...) to warp the portal-view.



mercuryus

yeah i thought about the arc allready, and there will be a rotating "dust" texture over it too. it was just WIP and not final, only tested the script