The Powder Toy

@bowserinator (View Post)  "Useful" is a subjective term. All of them are interesting, and most of them are cool to study. Finding gliders, glider guns and interesting self-perpetuatin...

Why would it be worth it? Other than some hazy ideal of realism?

@Lagnadium41 (View Post)  Sure, it sounds all science-y and stuff, but it's actually pretty simple. It's just a bunch of squares lighting up and turning off by how many lights are on a...

New aggregate states are kind of defined in a pretty terrible way. There has to be a new element for every state, or you'll end up doing tricks like setting velocities to zero in the update func...

This thread.

Haha, so you want to mix Minecraft, a falling sand simulator, Starbound, Garry's Mod, Incredibots and Liero? And you expect it to run on a computer that exists in the next ten years?   ...I...

How likely is it even that the underlying implementation for particles will be changed, if it has been mostly unchanged since 2010, anyway? Sure, there's been added properties here and there, bu...

The lock means it's not published. There's a little checkbox when you upload a save, which lets you choose whether or not your new save will be published.    You can give people l...

@bowserinator (View Post)  Don't really use console commands in C++ scripts. Stuff like !set type all gold can easily be done with C++ code alone, by modifying either the parts array or cal...

Devs don't like to make elements depend on the exact underlying implementation of particles. So modifying a particular property (life/tmp/tmp2/vx/vy) shouldn't be a thing.