Around Azeroth: Portal puzzle
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Nov 21st 2008 at 10:00AM
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Moonduh Nov 21st 2008 10:06AM
It's Ritual of Refreshment. He just zoomed the camera in.
Sydidex Nov 21st 2008 10:07AM
I'm no mage but it looks to me as though they are summoning a food table in Eye of the Storm starter bubble. Just my opinion.
Gnosh Nov 21st 2008 10:11AM
"See the other side of the portal"
Yeah, it'd be cool, but...
LOADING SCREEN
Arlendor Nov 21st 2008 10:18AM
They could change the current art to some stock recording of the area the portal goes to, with a couple NPCs walking around or something. It would provide the illusion of being able to see through it without actually having to receive the data from zones away.
Tumleren Nov 21st 2008 10:38AM
NEW FEATURE IN 3.1!:
http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aaportcreate1024yg9.png
Izbay Nov 21st 2008 10:40AM
I loled
Cataca Nov 21st 2008 10:19AM
Yeah, the the Ritual of Refreshment that summons a food table.
Just think though, what exactly would be on the other side of that portal. Candy Land? Rolling hills full of magical briskets? Unicorns?
Teeka Nov 21st 2008 10:25AM
You mean biscuits? ;D I prefer to think that portal leads to Candy Mountain, Charlie!
Kaylad Nov 21st 2008 10:53AM
No, no. Galloping herds of wild brisket.
Robert H Nov 21st 2008 10:22AM
Possibility: portals appear to have sort of a "screenshot" of the location that they lead to. So, find the location where this "screenshot" would have been taken from, and create the portal there.
For example, stand outside of Stormwind and create a Stormwind portal so the views line up and match. If the images in the portals are not actual pictures of the cities and are artist renderings instead (I don't have a mage to play with to verify this right now) then it would not really work. But if they are indeed actual in-game renderings of the real cities, this trick is very possible.
Robert H Nov 21st 2008 10:23AM
And since the portals are partly transparent anyways, you "see what is happening in the destination"
Robert H Nov 21st 2008 10:24AM
And yeah, it probably is just a mage table or something - just saying who knows, maybe you could somehow do this by lining up the images.
Vicky Nov 21st 2008 10:22AM
nothing fancy or new here, just a mage table
Nick S Nov 21st 2008 10:43AM
Cleverly shot.
It'd be cool if Blizz put an art guy on the job of making new Mage/city portal animations. They did a great job with the Death Knight portals.
But not 'til Ulduar is done, thanks. :-)
Darkwhisp Nov 21st 2008 11:24AM
Yup it is my bread table coming out. Still though even I didn't know i could take such a picture (yes that is me).
Lemons Nov 21st 2008 2:45PM
wtf? you actually got u picture on WoW insider? What a noob.
:P
kozom Nov 21st 2008 3:19PM
EOTS refreshment table. :D
Xigageshi Nov 21st 2008 3:30PM
I would love some new portal animations.
The death knight door is definitely a better idea than the stupid sprite crap we mages deal with now.
in my head, i've always pictured portals starting as just a line in the air and kind of opening up to make a square shaped door. now as for the "inside" there are a few things that could be done. obviously the cheapest, easiest solution would be to just have an image in it.
but there exists in any 3d engine a much better looking solution in making a small box "behind" the portal that can only be seen through it, the inside of the box could be mostly obscured by purple cloudy stuff, much like the DK spell, but maybe have a little of it drifting out of the portal's entrance.
the box wouldn't need to be big, just deep enough and obscured enough to imply the depth.
That would be a portal.