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I then scaled Chell's hand to 1:1 of the average hand size, along with the Portal gun. To get my scale I used the height of Alésia Glidewell, the model and actress who was the basis of Chell, and found a chart online that displayed female hand sizes based on height.
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The player-view model of the Portal Gun actually has Chell’s hand molded onto it, though the player cannot see this detail in-game. (pic 1)įiguring out scale with game props can be tricky since there are no real world components to compare it to. Once I had access to the model, I imported the front/side/top views into Adobe Photoshop. If you have a more advanced 3d program, like 3DSMax, for example, you can import the model into there. With this program you are able to load up the Portal Gun into the model viewer and check it out from whatever angle you please, you can even turn on the wireframe.
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Even better, Valve offers these sorts of programs for free with the Valve SDK.
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Most PC games, and even many on console, can have their prop models extracted and viewable in a third party program. While not without its own set of challenges, gathering the required reference for video games tends to be a bit straight forward. If we were replicating a film prop we could spend months or years scouring the internet for reference images, digging through screen shots, or trying to forge connections within the film’s production.
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To create an accurate replica you first need to study what it is you want to replicate. At Aperture we do all of our science from scratch. It was important to me that if I took on the build I didn't just copy how others did it in the past, but came up with my own method that would hopefully stand out on its own. Construction, molding, casting, and finally getting to a finished product took nearly 6 months. I spent few months going through screen shots, ripping models, checking measurements, researching materials, creating sketches, blueprints and planning my attack before I started building. With the world-view and player-view models showing quite a bit of consistency I knew it wouldn't be too difficult finding that middle ground without significant compromises. It is hard to ignore the similarities between the Portal Gun and the Gravity Gun if you enjoy one it's likely you enjoy the other.
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I had been considering a Gravity Gun build from my true gaming obsession, Half-Life 2, but felt there was too much of a disconnect between the high resolution player-view model and low resolution world-view model to do that prop without significant compromises, but fortunately the Orange Box came packaged with a new obsession: Portal.
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This Instructable will detail the process I went through while building my very own Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device from the Valve games Portal & Portal 2.