Author Topic: Seamless Area Portals.  (Read 546 times)

Before you read the wall of text, please note I AM NOT looking for onplayertransform, unless you're willing to give me version 2 of onplayertransform or show me where to find it.

Now, if you've been playing on blockland for a while and have an ID around or below 1500, you might have been on qwertyuiopas' endless stairs server. When outside, the building with the staircase seemed relatively small, but you could trek up and up and up and you would never ever find the top, then you would go down for 5 seconds and immediately hit the bottom. This was because he had made an addon that would let you place two linked area portals in the mission editor. Later on, he converted it to bricks, and added an endless hallway to the collection. Even later on, he added a maze where one wrong turn put you back at the beginning (seamlessly of course)

He had told me multiple times that it was very simple and after constant nagging, he finally told me he would release it. He never did. And now, he seems to have completely disappeared from the very face of the earth. Off of retail. Off of steam. Off of MSN. Off of everything.

So, I am asking you, the forums, to help me complete this long search. If it really is simple, then I would greatly, greatly appreciate it if someone could release it as an addon. And if you have it or know where somebody would find it, I would also appreciate it if there was a link.

tl;dr i want an addon that lets you place two linked area bricks that seamlessly teleport to eachother.
« Last Edit: August 23, 2009, 10:42:48 AM by Bites »

The was a new version of the transform event that also placed you at the correct relative position on the bricks (as well as the rotation that existed) which made transitions seamless unless you went really long distances and it had to do ghosting.

Where could I grab this new version? Would I simply be able to grab it off of the RTB Mod Manager? Or would I need to go wading through the addons forum?

Where could I grab this new version? Would I simply be able to grab it off of the RTB Mod Manager? Or would I need to go wading through the addons forum?

I dunno, but this is sweet. I'll tell you if I find anything.

~WhatevaGuy

Wrong word, say seamless portals.  Area portals are a completely different thing.

Not exactly understanding the difference from normal "setplayertransform"...

With the old version of Rotondo's setPlayerTransform, teleporting always placed you in the exact centre of the destination brick. This made seamless transitions on things like staircases or elevators using large bricks hard or impossible.

The new version adds a function to keep the offset of your position from the start brick to the destination brick: if you add a onPlayerTouch -> <NAMED BRICK> -> setPlayerTransform with it enabled, you will instantly warp from one to the other and appear to stay in the same place if you use similarly sized bricks.