[REAL] Portal beta portals

Here are the portal textures from various stages on Portal's development:

Included: The portals from the trailer. The portals from the X06/GameInformer videos.

Not included: The associated particles, because they're broken as all fuck.

Bugs: There is missing client code in the retail version of Portal related to local portal static, so I had to do portal static on local texture with a material proxy hack. Because of this, portal static on the local portal disappears several times faster than on the remote portal.

It took me a few months to assemble these and port them to retail Source. The only surviving copies were a few TGA sequences that contained "pieces" that needed to be assembled by specific Photoshop CS1 actions that were MIA. After essentially trial-and-erroring the Photoshop actions, I had to document almost all of Portal's undocumented material and shader features from scratch in order to get them working in the first place. This documentation is being compiled and added to the VDC so that anyone can create any arbitrary portal skin they want.

FAQ:

Are these real?

Yep! Frame compare all you'd like!

Where'd you get them?

Directly from Valve!

Do you have permission to post them?

Yes! I have permission from Valve to release these. This is a long-released game and it's only content, not code.

Who made these?

The Brilliant Scott Klintworth!

Videos:

Trailer portals:

/go/3877.lnk

X06/GI portals:

/go/3878.lnk