Portals Series (Daniel Ilett)
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Daniel Ilett’s multi-part portal series recreates Spyro-style skybox gates and full Portal-like rendering in Unity, covering stencil buffers, oblique projection matrices, momentum transfer, placement raycasts, and recursive screen sampling.
Starts with simple secondary-skybox portals, then builds camera rigs, clipping planes, and physics so players traverse linked views without breaking continuity.
Each installment links to an evolving GitHub repo with sample scenes and credited asset packs (skyboxes, arch meshes).
Advanced Unity graphics programming; frequently cited alongside Valve design postmortems when indies prototype non-Euclidean gameplay.
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