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Primotech : Half-Life 2: Portalhttp://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/[6/13/2009 4:00:28 AM]

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ByAlex Petraglia on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM East Filed UnderArticles

So you’ve played through Portal and lovedevery minuteas much as we did.Maybeyou’ve even gone through the advanced mapsand tried out some of the challenges? So whatcomes next?How about the ability to play through Half-Life2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-poweredgames with the portal gun in-hand? We’vebeen doing that very thing for the past few daysnow, and after hours spent experimenting withvarious techniques and tricks, we’re here toshow you how.To start, check out this video we cut together to show you “Half-Life 2: Portal” in action.

Primotech : Half-Life 2: Portalhttp://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/[6/13/2009 4:00:28 AM]

Now, follow our instructions below to the letter and you’ll be firing your gravity gun throughportals 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_steam_id)\. We, nor Valve, take any responsibility in theunlikely event of you hosing your game files. Worse comes to worse though, you couldalways just redownload from STEAM.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 severalother Steam games you may have downloaded.Once that’s done, browse to the directory ..\Steam\steamapps\. There, you’ll see all theavailable 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\(your_steam_id)\portal\portal. This will merge it with the existing Portalmap folder.Do the same with the ’scenes’ folderFire up Steam and run Portal. When it’s done doing its thing, open up the developer consolewith ‘~’ (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 bothportals. Enter “upgrade_portalgun” to do soGo lay waste to some alien scum with the power of portals!E3 09: Split/Second Hands-On PreviewE3 09: Brink Eyes-OnPreviewNY Comic Con 09: TheConduit Video Interview

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Here are some more thoughts on our experiences:Follow the same steps if you’d like to try it out with Half-Life 2: Deatmatch or Episodes 1 and2.We actually highly recommend starting with the HL2: DM maps to give you a feel of howthings operate and allow you to experiment with various techniques. You can spawn anenemy 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 aCombine soldier with a shotgun. (Visit thisHL2 Filefront pagefor more details)Sorry, but we’ve racked our brains and can’t figure out a simple way to get multiple peopleinto a game of HL2: DM this way. We’re sure some enterprising group of modders will comeup with something in the coming weeks, though.We did not attempt to do this with Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Day ofDefeat: Source. As fun as it might sound in theory, we would like to dissuade you from tryingit as well, as it probably won’t yield any real satisfactory results.All the same basic concepts of Portal apply here, including realistic momentum and gravity.You’ll also automatically regain health very quickly as in Portal. We’ll try to find a fix for thisand post it soon.It may take some time to figure out which surfaces work and which don’t, since obviouslythis is no longer clearly indicated by the textures. Generally speaking, shoot only for flatwalls, floors, and ceilings and not objects like rocks or boxes.Sadly, NPC’s and enemies cannot pass through portals. However, almost all ammunition,from bullets shot to grenades tossed to objects flung with the gravity gun, can and will maketheir way through smoothly.You’ll also probably notice a weird, floating colored cloud that follows you around (it appearsa few times in the video above). We couldn’t figure out a way to disable this, but thankfullyit’s only a minor annoyance.As in Portal, the player’s health will regenerate very quickly. A savvy reader by the name ofAdam Brock has posted in the comments a way to ‘disable’ regenerative health by setting’sv_regeneration_wait_time’ to a very high number. You can do so, for example, by entering

“sv_regeneration_wait_time 7200″ at the console (after applying “sv_cheats 1″) to postpone

any health regeneration for two hours.

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