Portals

File:Gravity portals.jpg

Gravity portals

Portals are special map components in Geometry Dash. They modify the way the player interacts with the level, and can also change the cube into different forms.

Manipulation portals

The following portals change the way the player interacts with the level:

Portal	Activation Colour	Deactivation Colour	Activation Portal	Deactivation Portal	First Encounter	Description
Gravity	Yellow	Blue	File:Gport.png	File:Gp2.png	Dry Out (Secret coins: Back on Track)	Changes the gravity to up(down at deactivation portal).
Mirror	Orange	Blue	File:Mirrrrrrrrrrrr.png	File:Morrrrrr.png	Time Machine	Flips the screen to travel left(right at deactivation po.
Size	Pink	Green	File:Size.JPG	File:Size.png	Clutterfunk	Shrinks the icon.
Speed	Yellow (Slow) Green (fast) Pink (Very fast)	Blue (Normal speed)	File:IMG 1464.PNG	File:IMG 1470.PNG	Electrodynamix	Changes the speed of the icon
Copy	Orange	Blue	File:IMG 1467.PNG	File:Blue Portal.png	Hexagon Force	Produces antigravity copy of icon. Also changes the playing area to 9, or 10 if one of the forms is in ship, UFO or wave mode.

Notes

• The size portal affects individual forms in different ways. The cube loses jumping height but can perform successive jumps quicker. The UFO also loses jumping height and takes less time to begin descending, and the Wave makes a steeper angle than before. However, what is applicable to all forms is the same constant speed which is unchanging from the enlarged state, but gives the impression that while shrunken, the icons move quicker as a result of looking small.
• The slow speed portal was in Hexagon Force following the initially released speed portals. The speed portals were actually in Update 1.7, in Electrodynamix.
• The copy from a copy portal inverts the chosen colour scheme. While a copy is existent, a collision will terminate the original, and vice versa, with each icon fully able to interact with its surroundings.
• When the icon enters a manipulation portal, the screen often flashes in an unusual manner. The gravity pads also act in the same way.
• The mirror portal effect is purely visual, and as such is not seen in the editor.

Form Portals

The following portals change the form of the player:

Portal	Colour	First Encounter	Playing area	Description
Cube	Green	Stereo Madness File:IMG 1473.PNG	60	Changes the icon into a cube.
Ship	Pink	Stereo Madness File:IMG 1472.PNG	10	Changes the icon into a ship.
Ball	Red	Cycles File:IMG 1474.PNG	8	Changes the icon into a ball.
UFO	Orange	Theory of Everything File:IMG 1475.PNG	10	Changes the icon into a UFO.
Wave	Blue	Blast Processing File:BLAST.PNG	10	Changes the icon into a wave.

Notes

• Players still have the ability to use jump rings in the forms.
• If the cube form goes above the 60-playing-area space in anti-gravity or in such ways to reach it, it acts like a hazard and makes the player die. This can be seen in a glitch in the start ofxStep.

Trivia

• Gravity and mirror are the only options not available to begin in a custom level. But gravity can still be changed from start position.
• By entering a Form Portal that is used to transform you into the same form you were in before entering, you can shift the playing area either higher or lower, as long as the second Form Portal is place higher or lower than the first one. This trick is used to enter the alternate route for the third secret coin in Stereo Madness.
• The size portal is the only manipulation portal that does not use blue as a deactivation portal, instead it uses green.
  • In this small form, the cube and ball forms are manipulated by changing the detail from its original form to one that resembles the very first type from their icon kits respectively.
• All portals (except the speed portals which are not three-dimensional) have an effect in the Level Editor, where only a part of the portal is shown.