Improved Portal Drop System
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MehStrongBadMeh
We've all seen it before: Try to place a portal to another world, but you instead get a message saying "Too close to spawn" or "Too close to other users" if another user happens to walk in front of you. This inevitably causes frustration, as you are now required to close out of your menu, physically move, and start the whole process over from the beginning.
I propose an enhanced system for placing portals: When you click the "Drop Portal" button, you enter "Drop Portal" mode. In this mode, the menu disappears but your hand continues to display a laser pointer. Pointing this laser at an available area of ground will result in a green ghost portal appearing there (only visible locally). Clicking the trigger will result in the portal being created at the indicated location. Pointing at a spawn area, near another user, or any other invalid area will cause the ghost portal to turn red. While red, clicking the trigger will display an error message which can be dismissed without exiting "Drop Portal" mode.
Additional details:
-Portals should only be able to placed within a certain distance of the user (I.E. 1 meter)
-Desktop and VR users without hand controllers can use their head instead of hands
-Re-opening the menu will cancel portal placement.
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NotAKidoS
1: kinda wish any of those embeds on the dev posts worked on mobile
still have yet to see any cool stuff because i can’t be bothered to open the link on my pc
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NotAKidoS: Afaik on the previous posts since the videos were encoded with VP9 they couldn't be played on iPhones or possibly some older Android phones too, but the latest Developer Update should be fine.
mrivanovichh
You should be able to have like a "holoport line" placemente so you can decide where to place it, and confirm it, and also what i saw on the jul28 uptade you can only go in clicking on confirmation
IkodoMoonstrife
Please let us just place a portal anywhere on any viable ground after selecting "Drop Portal". I echo all the other comments, make the already existing mod a feature if you're not going to support mods
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Fashionable
This is a mod I use on the daily and it works like a charm, i'd love to see this in the official game, but we would need a method to prevent people abusing it. Maybe adding a portal confirmation aswell if it is implemented, to prevent unwanted travel through portals?
khr_
This was previously implemented in the game via a mod, but with the addition of EAC, it can no longer be used. Upvoting for visibility.
Nekotaku
You should at least be able to turn around to place it somewhere else.
Also you should be able to open portals to places where friends are.
Ameletzi
I feel like you should be able to open your menu then turn to point and click on the portal so it can give you the details of that world, just as you would be able to with another person's avatar. There are times when you want to say save a world as favourites but not travel to the portal someone dropped, or maybe you opened a world in the wrong instance type and want a quick way to create a new portal.
Blizzball
This could even be just a circle on the ground, that becomes green when pointing at a location that the portal can be placed.
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