> But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey.
They were referring to Prey (2006).
Also worth noting that Prey (2006) started development in 1995.
Re:Portals and Quake
by keyringlight on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:43AM
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There are a handful of videos from E3 (97 or 98) showing off the original 3DRealms development of Prey. One of the things that didn't survive into Human Head's version on the Doom3 engine was rotating portals, or if they did they were rare that I don't remember them.
Original Descent was software rendered though.
2D graphics cards had alpha masking.
But not standard VGA.
That’s right, Descent ran in mode 13h 320x200 with 256 colours and drew directly to video memory. No alpha masking involved. The source is available here https://github.com/videogamepreservation/descent
But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey.