Added new Portal blocks: Tech portal (with frame) and “free standing” spherical portals in different sizes from 3x3 to 87x87 blocks (only the anchor point is set as a destroy/multitool collider; Overlapping of the sphere with regular blocks is possible; All of the sphere is a contact trigger for teleport).
Its just deco atm but you could use them for player teleporters, we might explore in the future if we want to have it for vessels aswell
Some feedback on the new portals: First, the new TechPortal looks really nice. I could see that getting used in story POIs. There's a texture glitch on it though, like one of the textures is super low resolution. Easy to spot if you paint it black: Allowing you to place blocks within the portal frame is really cool and will allow for some great integration into POIs and such, but is there any way to fix the Z-fighting when placing blocks inside it? I don't like how the portal itself darkens everything behind it, like it's a plane of tinted glass. An energy portal would glow brightly and obscure things behind itself, but it wouldn't do it by making them darker. This is most noticeable on the largest portal size but you can see it on all the portals and it doesn't look very good. It wouldn't be as noticed if used against a black space background but anywhere where a background can easily be seen it'll be very noticed. Ideally that black background just shouldn't be there to give a smoother transition along the edge of the energy vortex. It's not bad on the old portal style because it has a built in frame, is smaller, and is actually a lot darker that looks better. Also, I know this keeps being mentioned, but these larger portal sizes would be far more useful if they could teleport ships. I just don't see a use for a gigantic 87x87 sized personal portal. Even the 5x5 is a bit too large to really fit into anything for personal transport to work in with the block shapes we have.
Thx for the feedback! About the Z-Fighting > it is not intended to place blocks inside the Tech Portal. Needs a fix. The free standing portals are considered to work with blocks inside their spheres
I have gotten small ships I am piloting to go through with the ship and I. It dumps me out about 10 miles from the portal but it works. Please make the large one have a larger hit area. even 10x10 would be enough to put something through with a jump seat in the nose. You are so close. I built a Stargate in space. Fully powered by solar most large CVs would fit but yeah not designed for that. I have shuttles on each side of the portal and jetpack through. Sad.
Sorry for my ignorance here, but are they not the same thing? as in a Teleporter/Matter Transporter, do they not have the same or similar mechanic , where the activation takes the player from one world to another? (though sometimes the same world... ok confusing myself a bit) And yes it would be nice to have a jump gate to some pinched off bit of space* (a space within space separate from the universe) with only one way to get there, it could be single planet or moon, or a even a few star systems pinched off by (a God/AI, Advanced being) and completely different from what we know. *like tying off a bit of a balloon.
Teleporters, portals, and jump gates are all different things. Teleporters can teleport the player to another teleporter, either using the teleport network, or as a fixed destination in a POI. Portals can teleport another player who walks through them to a fixed destination in a POI. Jump gates can teleport *vessels* (but not lone players) to a fixed destination POI. So if you want to teleport ships you need to use a jump gate, not a teleporter or portal.
