Portal prototyping

[shadmar]

I was going to enter the one week game project Aggror started, but I realized I only had 2 evenings to work on it this week, so maybe next time

 

 

The portals render their counterpart views using two buffers and the regular diffuse.shader. I use camera:pick to place portals on the walls or roof/floor.

 

When App.player collides with one of them I move player, and set camera orientation to the portal orientation, so all good..

 

My problem is :

 

If I step through the portal I get collision in rapid succesion since player is moved between the portals every frame since collision occur immediatley after player is moved.

 

So I havent figured out a smooth way to solve this, any tip would be appreciated.

[Furbolg]

How about a simple boolean variable for each portal that is changed after the player stopped colliding ?

[Admin]

That is so cool.

 

I might consider a callback to discard specific collisions, just to support this.

[Rick]

I always thought we needed OnCollideEnter, OnCollideLeave which might help with this and many other things as well.

 

Maybe chaining multiple collides can work. It's like having 2 lasers at the entry of a door. By telling which one breaks first and which one breaks second you can tell which way someone is going. If you are coming out from a portal you don't trigger the teleporting logic. If you are going into a portal you trigger the teleporting logic.

[Admin]

What you need to do is have two player entities. For each one, discard collisions that lie on the wrong side of your portal plane (which requires me to add a new callback). Then take the average resulting position and force them both to that.

 

This guy does some insane things using that technique:

[AggrorJorn]

I always wondered who would be the first person who would make a good attempt on portals. It looks really cool already Shadmar

 

And btw, you can simply submit this for the game week tournament if you wish. Prototypes , level designs etc are just as welcome as small games.

[shadmar]

Thanks for the tip on the 2 player entity idea, it sounds like it could work.

I'll upload my project when I'm back from my trip (wednesday)

 

Thanks.