The Powder Toy

hachouma

how come so many flash or java games have moving solids and tpt does not?
i've seen many 1 man sandbox 3d games, and countless flash games with moving solids and ragdolls

Vou

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user25

THEY ARE DIFFERENT, no please, just STOP with the suggestions of moving solids!

cctvdude99

@hachouma
Because of the way the game is coded. The way the engine works makes it nearly impossible for them to be made. Also, do those games simulate A) Air pressure and B) Air velocity? Yea, thought not.

DerpLord

@cctvdude99 (View Post)

Uh yes, they do. Powder game does indeed simulate pressure and velocity.

hachouma

@Vou (View Post)
im not SUGGESTING, im just asking why its impossible

pilojo

@DerpLord (View Post)
Not as well. TPT has ambient heat, how many powder simulators do you know that do that?

Catelite

It's perfectly possible, just it would be an annoying pretzel to code into the game. We would need another layer on top of air heat, gravity, velocity and pressure already to produce boundaries for moving solids, flags to denote the edges and placeholders inside of solids, and code to allow rotation of solids that are part of the same object.

...Basically, it would be a huge pain to implement into a game that's designed to deal with only discrete particles.

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