   Do you think people would pay for an automatic portal generator?
  I'm working on a portal engine at the moment.In order to make it work optimally I'm developing a process that will take a list of polygons (there must be no unshared edges), group them into perfect sectors and then create portals between them. The program will also merge split polygons (post-CSG) into the smallest possible number and divide any complex concave polygons into optimal convex polygons.The level designer doesn't have to draw any portals themselves and (when using my tools) has a high degree of control over which sub-sections of the geometry result in the creation of portals (to avoid creating too many).I'm really doing this for my own interest and purposes, but I was thinking that if it worked really well, people might pay for it. What do you think? I know that some programs already do automatic portal generation to some extent, but what if my program could do it better with even less user intervention?Paulcoz.[edited by - paulcoz on February 15, 2004 10:25:49 PM]
  People would pay quite a bit of money for instant teleportation. ;quote:Original post by Senses777  People would pay quite a bit of money for instant teleportation.   You could probably make the most with presidential candidates or corrupt voting judges./my .o2;  Can I have at least one serious answer, please? Paulcoz.   [edited by - paulcoz on February 15, 2004 10:31:12 PM];quote:Original post by paulcoz  Can I have at least one serious answer, please? Paulcoz.I stared at your post for quite awhile but was still not able to figure out what you were talking about What is a portal and why would someone want a pre-implemented design for them? ;  See here:http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1891.aspPaulcoz.   [edited by - paulcoz on February 16, 2004 2:18:32 AM];'If' it worked really well and was very flexible then I think it would be something worth paying for. But since this process is only for very specialized environments and trivial for level designers to do, it would be cheaper for most people to do it themselves.Sorry about that..   [edited by - Jack Sotac on February 16, 2004 2:29:39 AM];  You are to be shot at dawn for not closing your quotes. ;  He ment:Portalsedit:    ;  Stop that! 