Trashed Portal Corp map, and destructible portals?

One thing I noticed in Crackmonkey's video "Destiny" over on the GT site is this long tracking shot of Portal Corporation looking like a bomb hit the place. He mentioned that this was a villain-side map, but I was wondering exactly what mission this was from.

Also, is it possible to actually destroy one of the big portals that you use for interdimensional travel inside Portal Corp? Or are those just part of the map?

(And is there a way to put a trashed portal on the map so it doesn't just blow up and fade away?)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I think that's from a RWZ mission, where the Rikti are raiding Portal corp. If no one fills in the details by the time I get home later tonight, I can flashback to it and get the map name for you.

I don't think, in this mission, that the portals are destructible, they're part of the map.

There is a mission that is part of one of the villain patron arcs (Black Scorpion, I think)that has destructible portals. If you look at the into to my grime video, I have a portal blowing up in the background of the last shot.

I *think* it's this map (not somewhere that I can check right off): MAPS/MISSIONS/OUTDOOR_MISSIONS/OUTDOOR_RIKTI_WAR_ZONE/IOM_PORTAL_CORP/IOM_PORTAL_CORP.txt

EDIT:

This mission.

DR, I believe the map is from the villain patron arc; I know that both Scirocco and Ghost Widow send you to that map, and some portals are actually missing from there. You could place an NPC portal (from my other thread) and then create the explosion by mixing a peacebringer nova and the turret explosion FX to "hide" the portal while you dissapear it.

This is the map I used in my video:

MAPS/MISSIONS/OUTDOOR_MISSIONS/V_OUTDOOR_GRANDVILLE/PORTALCORP/PORTALCORP.TXT

The coordinates match that of regular old PI too, so you can simply swap maps if that's your fancy. I'll dig around and find my demos of the actual mission and post them up somewhere, and as I remember you can destroy multiple portals, not just one.

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This is the map I used in my video:

MAPS/MISSIONS/OUTDOOR_MISSIONS/V_OUTDOOR_GRANDVILLE/PORTALCORP/PORTALCORP.TXT

The coordinates match that of regular old PI too, so you can simply swap maps if that's your fancy. I'll dig around and find my demos of the actual mission and post them up somewhere, and as I remember you can destroy multiple portals, not just one.

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*hugs Relentless*

Thanks! The democode would be a huge help!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

The destroyed Portal Corp courtyard is also from a RWZ arc mission. I can't recall who has it, but I've been on it a few times.

After digging through my old files, it seems that a few of my old demos somehow got corrupted in the transfer over to my current computer. I did find one very short working demo of this mission though, which gives the positioning of three portals. There's also a quick custom demo I threw together at some point, probably something I was going to use for a demo at one point or another.

Anyway, the files are up here. (I was going to put it up on w00t but I get a page about permission denied when I try to go to the file depot).

A couple things to note- the trashed portal doesn't disappear over time, so there's no need to mess around to get that stuff to stay. Although if you keep it in its intended position, many of the pieces fall into the cubby hole beneath the walkway anyway.

Also, the "Player" must be within range of the portal if you want to see the big metal spinning bits while it's "alive" (though it might be of use to have a big blue glowing ball for something in a demo).

And one last sidenote, some of you may have noticed that all of those little extra fx from debris don't go away when you let the demo loop around. I got a phone call as I was starting one of the demos up, only to come back to my computer and find this mess.

Even if they're corrupted, try sending them to me - I've found ways of fixing the corrupted demofiles.

And thank you so much for sending me these!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

It's not even a demo any more, just a bunch of gobbledygook. The original copies are probably ok, just that they're on my old PC.