Weapon portalgun

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Table of contents

1 Entity description 2 Availability 3 Keyvalues 4 Flags 5 Inputs 6 Outputs

Entity description

This entity places a portal gun in a map that can be picked up and used as a weapon. It's used to open one or two portals in the game.

Availability

This point entity is exclusive to Portal.

Keyvalues

• targetname <target_source>

Defines the name that other entities refer to this entity by.

• hammerid [Episode Two Update]

<integer readonly> This id is used for debugging purposes in Hammer.

• angles <angle>

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X)

This entity's angular orientation in the world (also used for angular effect entities).

• fademindist [Episode One Update]

<float> Distance at which the prop starts to fade (<0 = use fademaxdist). If 'Screen Space Fade' is selected, this represents the number of pixels wide covered by the prop when it starts to fade.

• fademaxdist [Episode One Update]

<float> Maximum distance at which the prop is visible (0 = don't fade out). If 'Screen Space Fade' is selected, this represents the *minimum* number of pixels wide covered by the prop when it fades.

• fadescale [Episode One Update]

<float> If you specify a fade in the worldspawn, or if the engine is running under dx7, then the engine will forcibly fade out props even if fademindist/fademaxdist isn't specified. This scale factor gives you some control over the fade. Using 0 here turns off the forcible fades.

• CanFirePortal1

<boolean> Can this portalgun create blue portals?

• CanFirePortal2

<boolean> Can this portalgun create orange portals?

Flags

• 1 : Start Constrained

Prevents the model from moving.

• 2 : Deny player pickup (reserve for NPC) [Episode One Update]
• 4 : Not puntable by Gravity Gun [Episode One Update]

Inputs

• Kill

Removes this entity from the world.

• KillHierarchy

Removes this entity and all its children from the world.

• AddOutput <string>

Evaluates a keyvalue/output on this entity. It can be potentially very dangerous, use with care.

Format: <key> <value>

Format: <output name> <targetname>:<inputname>:<parameter>:<delay>:<max times to fire (-1 == infinite)>

• FireUser1-4

Causes this entity's OnUser1-4 outputs to be fired. See User Inputs and Outputs.

• ChargePortal1

Does charge up effect for mounted portalgun.

• ChargePortal2

Does charge up effect for mounted portalgun.

• FirePortal1

Projects portal 1 (blue) onto a wall in the facing direction of the gun.

• FirePortal2

Projects portal 2 (orange) onto a wall in the facing direction of the gun.

• FirePortalDirection1

<angle> Fires portal 1 (blue) in the specified direction.

• FirePortalDirection2

<angle> Fires portal 2 (orange) in the specified direction.

Outputs

• OnUser1-4

Fired in response to FireUser1-4 inputs. See User Inputs and Outputs.

!activator = activator

• OnPlayerUse

Fires when the player +uses this weapon.

!activator = player

• OnPlayerPickup

Fires when a player picks up this weapon.

!activator = player

• OnNPCPickup

Fires when an NPC picks up this weapon.

!activator = NPC

• OnFiredPortal1

Fires when the first (blue) portal is fired.

• OnFiredPortal2

Fires when the second (orange) portal is fired.