Portals -

Teleportaton and illumination mod for Big Walk.

Portals resemble Mario 64 framed paintings, displaying a still snapshot of the destination at the moment the pair is linked.

Manage up to 3 separate portal pairs simultaneously. [Orange/blue, Red/Green, Purple/Yellow]

Currently client-side so console players will beleive you are a dark trickster god.

Controls

Features

• 6 Portals: Map out up to three entirely separate hops across the world using color-coded frames (Orange/Blue, Red/Green, Purple/Yellow).
• Point-and-Click Placement: If your flashlight beam illuminates a spot, you can probably place a portal there.
• Persistent Travel: Turn the flashlight beam off (F). Your placed portals remain active and working in the background.
• Illumination: The portal frames glow. The placement beam doubles as a weak flashlight.
• White placement beam has no portal capabilities, great for finding your way through dark areas.
• Turning the flashlight off does not destroy your portals; placed endpoints remain active.
• Smart Nudge Assistance: The placement algorithm automatically nudges portals slightly forward away from walls and geometry, preventing endpoints from getting stuck inside the environment.

Config

com.gogogadgetjustice.portalflashlightmod.cfg

You can change:

• Key to switch the flashlight on/off.
• Key to switch active color.
• Toggle mouse wheel support on/off.
• How far the light reaches in meters. Default:20
• Brightness of the light. Default:4
• Cone width of the spotlight, in degrees. Default:50
• How far in front of the camera the light sits, in meters. Default:0.35
• How far below the camera the light sits, in meters. Default:0.08
• Primary Portal Fire Key. Default:Mouse0 aka left click.

Requirements

• BepInExPack_IL2CPP

digital tip jar.

Let’s be entirely honest with ourselves for a fleeting, terrifying moment of absolute clarity:

Who spends time on this spinning rock debugging C# script spatial coordinates to make a flashlight/multi-frequency quantum gateway, complete wth Super Mario 64 framed landscape snapshots, for a game about walking loudly with your friends?

It's a me.

If this mod has spared you from the dark or obnoxious staircases, consider dropping something into the Ko-fi

TO DO, MAYBE

• Maybe to make multiplayer, so that all might share in the teleporting sickness.
• Maybe the preservation of the momentum. And the velocity. And the trajectory. So that a person leaping from a cliff might exit the portal as a cannonball of bone and gristle, carrying speed elsewhere.
• Now that portals can be placed upon the walls, maybe to render through the live and terrible truth of the destination via virtual render-target cameras in some manner that doesn't tank FPS.
• Maybe the tossing of items through the portals without the burden of holding them.
• Maybe to make the sound carry, so that the cries of friends might echo across the threshold.
• Maybe to create and implement portal sound effects.
• Optimize and streamline

License

CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) with a Skiwsgaard non-commerical fishng license addendum

Reach out if you do something cool with this. I want to hear about cool things.

Changelog

1.1.0

Added

• F10 menu - Update the flashlight and portal settings.
• Live Camera - Configurable live views of the other side of the portal.
• Some optimizations to maintain FPS

1.1.0

Added

• Triple the portals - Orange/Blue, Red/Green, Purple/Yellow linked
• Flashlight Portal Placement: Replaced the legacy ground-drop mechanic with a dynamic flashlight aiming system. Point anywhere in the world, and M1/M2 to deploy your endpoints.
• Color-Coded Matchups: Cycle through 3 distinct paired frequencies using C / V or the mouse wheel:
  • Orange / Blue
  • Red / Green
  • Purple / Yellow
• Current flashlight color is M1, linked portal is m2.
• Ambient Light Mode: Included a default, non-portal white flashlight setting for players who just need standard environmental illumination. Also lets you use your hands without portal tossing.
• Nudge Assistance: Added a smart placement that automatically pushes deployed endpoints forward to prevent them from reduce environmental collisions.
• Portals remain active and fully functional even after turning off the flashlight visual beam (via pressing F again).

Changed

• Activation Inputs: Remapped the primary controls. The legacy Q and E ground-placement keys have been deprecated in favor of the new flashlight targeting system.

1.0.0

• Initial proof of concept public test release.