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Portal: Project-Beta

Portal mod | Coming Q4 2010

Project-Beta is a full content mod for Portal. This mod will include, new textures, new models, new particles, and a new story mode. There are 2 Possible endings to the mod. The rest of the information will be shown in progress screen shots and media releases. Texturing - CabooseJr, Hunterbrute, reepblue, Snood, CaveJ, and KernCore Particles - CabooseJr, Hunterbrute Mapping - reepblue, Caboosejr, OneQuarterLife, Hen Mazolski, and KernCore Background Creation - reepblue, Caboosejr Modeling - Snood and CaveJ Mod Compilation - Hunterbrute224 Scripting - CaveJ, Hunterbrute Web - CaveJ Art - CaveJ The Mod Team - Hunterbrute, CabooseJr, reepblue, Snood, CaveJ, Omnicoder, and KernCore.

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How our spiral portals got started, our inspiration, and where they are today.

Posted by Hunterbrute224 on Sep 6th, 2009 digg this super bookmark

Project-Beta wouldnt have made it without the help of Cave, he figured out how to apply a texture to a Portal. With the permission of the spirals original creator, Mahalis, we worked from there.

The first Spiral Portals we used were really no different from Gmod's. Here are a few images of the original Spirals in PB. These are the closed Portals, as you can see we had only a texture and no color for the background.

However when they were opened, they worked perfectly fine.

We didn't want to keep our Spirals like this, we wanted something unique to Project-Beta, so our only choice was to modify the way these looked. We still hadn't figured out how to get a closed texture, but here are the same 2 images only using the second version of the Spirals.
The Closed Portals.

The Open/Linked Portals.

As many of you can tell, these were much to white and needed more color. From these we enhanced the color a bit, here are the 3rd revision of the Project-Beta Spirals.
The Closed Spirals, they still had no background color.

The Open/Linked Portals

The 3rd revision looked much nicer and had a darker hue to it. The color was pretty decent and we thought these would be the final spirals, however Cave once again figured out some really cool modifications. After about 3 months of using these Portals, Cave and myself worked almost non stop on a way to add in a closed Portal texture and to enhance the Spirals and make them unique to PB while bringing back the look of the Portal Beta. Here are our results.
The Closed Project-Beta Spirals.

The Open/Linked Project-Beta Spirals.

These Spirals came out great, and thanks to Caboose Jr we even had the Beta particles made. I didn't include the particles in the above screenshots, just so you could see the texture layout of the Spirals. However just to show you what our goal is, here are 2 images of Portal.
The Portal Beta.