Mikoportal

Mikoportal is the name given to a set up in which a floor, at the lowest height possible in the vanilla Doom engine, is connected to its ceiling, which is itself at the highest height possible, through. If the player's avatar (or a voodoo doll) falls towards such a floor, its vertical position will underflow to reach the top, allowing to generate an endless fall. While a player character does not touch the floor, the engine does not apply friction, therefore momentum is preserved until reaching a wall or landing on a floor at a higher than minimum height.

The name comes from Mikolah, who was the first person to have the idea of exploiting this phenomenon to achieve special effects not normally possible in the engine, notably vanilla conveyors.

Mikoportals are made possible by the implementation of actor coordinates in Doom being expressed as 16.16 fixed point numbers, represented internally as 32-bit integers. The effect is therefore absolutely incompatible with any port that uses floating point coordinates, or moved to 64-bit integers to represent fixed point. If needed, the effect can be emulated or replaced easily with advanced modding features.