Use the Portal gun in HL2, and episodes!

Oct 25, 2006
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Hmm, I heard about this yesterday. It might not be the same thing, but in the version I heard about, theres glitches like objects not knowing therels a portal there, the portal not workng correctly, no portal interaction, etc.
 

Coldkilla

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Oct 7, 2004
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I can't check the link out (at work and its filtered), but I do know you don't need EP1, or EP2. Just download garry's mod and download the from the original creators of the portal gun. It's the same thing, as the portal gun did start out as a mod. :)
 

coloumb

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Oct 9, 1999
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For the link-impaired:

Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and you?ll be firing your gravity gun through portals at unsuspecting Combine in no time.

* First off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. It?s the folder marked ?portal? in ..\Steam\steamapps\(your_username)\. We, nor Valve, take any responsibility in the unlikely event of you hosing your game files. Worse comes to worse though, you could always just redownload.
* Next, download and install, if you haven?t already, GCFScape. This handy program will allow you to access the cached game files for any Source-powered game, in addition to several other Steam games you may have downloaded.
* Once that?s done, browse to the directory ..\Steam\steamapps\. There, you?ll see all the available GCF archives. We?ll start with Half-Life 2.
* Open the GCF marked ?half-life 2 content.gcf? You?ll see a directory tree in the left pane. Click the box to the left of the folder marked ?hl2? to see the directory listing contained within it. Then, right-click ?maps,? select ?Extract? and extract the entire folder into the directory \Steam\steamapps\the_great_bundini\portal\portal. This will merge it with the existing Portal map folder.
* Do the same with the ?scenes? folder
* Fire up Steam and run Portal. When it?s done doing its thing, open up the developer console with ?~? (you may need to enable it under your keyboard options).
* At the console, type ?maps *? to list all the available maps. Now that you?ve imported the Half-Life 2 maps, this will be a fairly lengthy list and some of the names, like citadel and canals, should seem familiar.
* Type ?map? and then the map name to open that map. For instance, ?map d1_canals_01?
* When the map is done loading, pull up the console again and enable cheats by entering ?sv_cheats 1?
* To give yourself all weapons, including the portal gun, enter ?impulse 101?
* Depending on how far you got in Portal, you may need to upgrade the portal gun to fire both portals. Enter ?upgrade_portalgun? to do so
* Go lay waste to some alien scum with the power of portals!
 

bamacre

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Jul 1, 2004
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I'm gonna give this a go. :D

Edit: Works. A little buggy obviously because they did not intend you to be in certain places in the maps.

Seems to be other issues. Enemies could not hit me, they fired, and hit nothing. There are some sounds missing, too.

Would be a lot better if other characters could go through portals.