DOWNLOAD

  • watereye
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    What if you could make a button that when you press it, it opens a page of elements you can download to your tpt.
    Example: You click the button download elements. It opens a page in your tpt which lets you to download peoples created elements. And you can remove the elements that you added to your tpt. You can vote each other's elements up or down. The home page of the button is front page.

    What would make it easier for people that doesn't know how to code, should make a element maker.
    Also you have your own set of elements like your uploads. 
  • tommig
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Try implememnting that into the code
    Just add in some code that changes the game entirely.

    Some things to think about:
    How is this code going to be implemented into the source, if you have not got the source in your .exe
    Even if you did, for someone with no coding experience, how are they going to do it?
    Data value collisions
    You would be unable to load save that someone else has done, because the contain another set of data values
    If there is something in one of these element's code that reference and element that hasn't been got, game will not run.
  • alecnotalex
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @watereye (View Post)
    That is actually a really good idea. People could customize their TPT based on what elements they like, and they could pick and choose from mods and things. I believe it would be better if the elements were downloaded from the interment, not TPT itself though. Although it's a good idea, it would be almost impossible to code. The only idea that I have for making it work, though, is making the game dependent on text files stored in the same directory as TPT. All of the data for each element would be in WATER.txt or SAND.txt. I know that wouldn't work, but it might be the best so far. You did have a good idea though!
  • lillepallt
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @watereye (View Post)
    You mean pretty much a ingame mod server gui? Lets save those resources and do this. We got plenty of neat lua scripts on the forum and a bundle of mods on wiki, they are .exe files just like tpt and they don't bite. Just to give you what you seemed to be looking for. @alecnotalex (View Post)
    Try searching "how files work" and "data collision" on google or anything like that. We also got a great bundle of mods on the wiki.
  • alecnotalex
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @lillepallt (View Post)
    Why might you want me to do that?
  • randalserrano
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    The only problem with this is if you have different elements from other people, how would the saves work? There would be a lot of saves out there that wouldn't work properly if at all because everyone would have different elements. Not only that, in order to do something like that, there would have to be someone coding all of those elements in order for that button to work. If you take all of the mods and find all of the different elements and include them in TPT's code, It would cause a lag fest. You would be talking about over 1000 elements and a computer couldn't take that much processing power unless you had a super computer. No matter how you look at it, you would need to have the code for all of those elements in TPT in order to get them to work.
  • therocketeer
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @randalserrano (View Post)
    Perhaps this idea wouldn't be save compatible then. But the model does sound interesting.
  • watereye
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    How about a sign? It's like a link to another upload but instead it leads to element download page and downloads the element. So you click the sign, it leads you to the download for the element.
  • mniip
    2nd Feb 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    @tommig (View Post)
    gah, he means lua mods
    lua mod (according to source) can fully replace an element, and natural mod cant do anything lua mod cant
  • tommig
    2nd Feb 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    (Sorry, I'm yet to understand lua, so please just help me along here)
    I know you can make elements with lua, but can you use them to save stamps? If not then I doubt this will work.