Aww! :D Virus could maybe slowly destroy decorations?

@jacob1 (View Post)
Subparticles would be useful for just a few current elements indeed, but wouldn't they enable creating far more elements that use subparticles?

Stuff like all the clones and CRAY will benefit the most out of them 'cause you could suddenly start cloning and creating near-exploded VIBR, EXOT that's in its "replacer" mode and at 5725.18 K, plus much more elaborate CRAYing for stuff like heated/coloured WIFI. The self-replicating machine could actually be a thing in TPT.

For elements that don't use them, it's only a pointer so it will take up sizeof(int) of size when unused. The actual struct Particles will be on the heap if they're ever created. Stuff like PROP can be made to accommodate.
Plus accessing the properties inside C++ wouldn't be much work, it'd rather be something like

parts[i].subpart->temp or (*parts[i].subpart).temp

That memory allocation thing sounds far more versatile, however how will one save that into actual saves, not to speak of that subparticles could extend practically infinitely down (subparticle->subparticle->subparticle->subparticle .....) if such need were to arise. I am unsure of how to save them though...

I always thought it was cool how VIRS didn't remove decorations. Imo, it'd have been cooler if it just continuously darkened them until they became pink XD