I recently played through Black Mesa, and while it really is an accomplishment (completely remaking an entire game in a new engine is no small feat), it only made me more excited to go back to the original and remember how well it still holds up. Even Half Life is stylized in such a way that it really doesn't need any changes, with it's bright cartoony color palette and angular space-age laboratory designs. We couldn’t figure out a way to disable this, but thankfully it’s only a minor annoyance.This is really cool! Not to detract from how awesome it is that Valve lets fans do this to their games without fear of legal repurcussions, but I've always been impressed by how little Valve games require visual overhauls. You’ll also probably notice a weird, floating colored cloud that follows you around (it appears a few times in the video above). However, almost all ammunition, from bullets shot to grenades tossed to objects flung with the gravity gun, can and will make their way through smoothly. Sadly, NPC’s and enemies cannot pass through portals. Generally speaking, shoot only for flat walls, floors, and ceilings and not objects like rocks or boxes. It may take some time to figure out which surfaces work and which don’t, since obviously this is no longer clearly indicated by the textures. We’ll try to find a fix for this and post it soon. You’ll also automatically regain health very quickly as in Portal. As fun as it might sound in theory, we would like to dissuade you from trying it as well, as it probably won’t yield any real satisfactory results.Īll the same basic concepts of Portal apply here, including realistic momentum and gravity. We did not attempt to do this with Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Day of Defeat: Source. We’re sure some enterprising group of modders will come up with something in the coming weeks, though. Sorry, but we’ve racked our brains and can’t figure out a simple way to get multiple people into a game of HL2: DM this way. (Visit this HL2 Filefront page for more details) You can spawn an enemy by first looking where you would like him to be placed and then entering, say, ‘npc_create_equipment weapon_shotgun wait npc_create npc_combine_s’ to create a Combine soldier with a shotgun. We actually highly recommend starting with the HL2: DM maps to give you a feel of how things operate and allow you to experiment with various techniques. Here are some more thoughts on our experiences:įollow the same steps if you’d like to try it out with Half-Life 2: Deatmatch or Episodes 1 and 2. Go lay waste to some alien scum with the power of portals! To give yourself all weapons, including the portal gun, enter ‘impulse 101’ĭepending on how far you got in Portal, you may need to upgrade the portal gun to fire both portals. When the map is done loading, pull up the console again and enable cheats by entering ‘sv_cheats 1’ Type ‘map’ and then the map name to open that map. 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. When it’s done doing its thing, open up the developer console with ‘~’ (you may need to enable it under your keyboard options).Īt the console, type ‘maps *’ to list all the available maps. This will merge it with the existing Portal map folder.įire up Steam and run Portal. Then, right-click ‘maps,’ select ‘Extract’ and extract the entire folder into the directory \Steam\steamapps\the_great_bundini\portal\portal. Click the box to the left of the folder marked ‘hl2’ to see the directory listing contained within it. Open the GCF marked ‘half-life 2 content.gcf’ You’ll see a directory tree in the left pane. There, you’ll see all the available GCF archives. Once that’s done, browse to the directory. 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. Next, download and install, if you haven’t already, GCFScape. Worse comes to worse though, you could always just redownload. We, nor Valve, take any responsibility in the unlikely event of you hosing your game files. Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and you’ll be firing your gravity gun through portals at unsuspecting Combine in no time.įirst off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. Taken from primotech's web page so full credit to those guys!
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