[SFM] Portal - Rocket Sentries: Are They Possible?

Apparently a lot of you wanted this. Maybe five isn't a lot, but it is what it is. And I might as well make some content.

I've been rather lost for drive to actually make stuff recently, and these are getting kind of hard to make as we get further into obscure stuff. Oh well, we keep on trying till we run out of cake.

[demete]

"...and DEFINITELY overdesigned..."

Yep
Sounds like Aperture

[holyravioli]

I think its actually not the type of rockets your thinking of, instead its actually a recoil less cannon. when the barrel is forward the chamber is open to allow a round to enter the chamber. The barrel goes backwards closing the chamber and fires a round, a delay allows the projectile to exit the barrel before the barrel moves forward again.
This actually makes perfect sense for such a platform where recoil would be a serious hindrance.

[AmBush]

Fact: If something looks really cool, players won't question why it works

[angelamuller]

Good enough for science.






... NOT APERTURE SCIENCE.

[aminoshift]

I wonder why this didn't get remade in portal 2?

[GwenTheWitch]

"dangerous and impractical" Have you not heard of Aperture, my dude?

[defectedclone]

Technically they would be possible with the cpu and the core and eye lenses but it’s not in the model and the joints are pretty straight forward and the rocket ammo compartment would be below the rocket sentry not mentions as well as the joints that move it in a 360 fashion but it’s not mentioned so yeah it is possible

Edit: The joint is not a motor the main motor of this turret is in the cores back or rear exhaust ok. Ask questions below this comment

note: I specialize in robotics and coding

[freetanuki]

I feel like someone out there is gonna dedicate the next 10 years of their life to making an actual Rocket Sentry

[milk]

Holy cow i've been looking for a channel like this for years. Good to know I found the holy grail!

[BaldiPlayz]

If it's not possible because of the hinge you know we can always replace another hinge

[_GhostMiner]

Rocket sentries have worse aim than TF2 sentry vs. Moving object

[YZYE]

I reckon in real life, it would activate and probably be too ‘head heavy’ so it would aim towards the ground and blow itself up.

[unix]

Who panicked when they first saw this in Portal?

[KaosFireMaker]

The thing has 9 degrees of freedom, only needs maybe 2 of them, and only ever uses 1

[sopix]

like someone said in the beggining of this video, arieal faith plates please, and if you did already but i forgot, emancapation grills (portal 2 type beacuse all portal 1 things are not well desinged)

[Coolperson]

Are the jump boots from portal possible

[thatguybrody]

Having seen a bunch of strange and obscure gun designs, i can say the rocket gun is definitely plausible. at least the 'gun' part. The barrel coming back could be the breech closing and pushing the rocket back into place and opening the back to vent backblast once firing blasting it out and carrying the barrel back out with recoil referred to as a 'Blow Forward' design, or it could siphon some of the backblast from launching to reset the barrel after it leaves like a Gas Delayed Blowback.

[chirrupted]

"The barrel is dangerous and impractical" just means it was truly made by aperture

[DurekuDragon]

Okay, 5-6 degrees of rotational freedom all in one direction (x, z is vertical) sure looks fancy but dear god is that post-Apple levels of insane design.

[EggCrissant]

Are Atlas and P-Body possible?




I’m just saying this so I can get a side view of their models. I’m trying to create them in Pivot Animator but I can’t find any side views lol