Advanced Electronics Club
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@china-richway2 (View Post)
the source would actually be a very helpful place to look. I had to, I didn't know CRAY used tmp2 for anything. Long experimentation isn't always the best for little things like this, because it's only used to correctly make GOL, something I would never guess. Looking at the source can also help you quickly find things, and then test them in game once you know what to do.
so ... CRAY's tmp2 is the same as several other element's like PBCN and some other clones (which don't put it in tmp2 though). Since all LIFE particles have the same id, 78, they use ctype to store which type of life they are. things like CRAY and clones just store their ctype property in some unused variable, like tmp2 in this case.Edited once by jacob1. Last: 2nd Oct 2013 -
1330358View Save 1330358A save I made milk the AEC!
(Oops, autocorrect and I don't remember the originally intended wording)
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I know it is a good place when you want to look up something you don't understand. Long expermention isn't good, maybe, but look at this save:
1214884View Save 1214884Can you find a source of it? Can you figure out how it works without a 'source'? You has to do long experimention and find the answer.
1285860View Save 1285860How does all the parts work? 'Look up the source!'
Oops, you've shown the answer!
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@china-richway2 (View Post)
there's a large difference between looking up what a .tmp2 value does for an element, and figuring out how one of the most complicated and best calculators ever made in tpt works. I couldn't even figure out what calculator if I tried. -
So @jacob1 has told the answer and I'll explain about how I found the answer.
It's when I see this save:
1272401View Save 1272401Then I thought: 'Why does that CRAY(LIFE) create STAR? Why not another kind of LIFE? How does CRAY store its life type?'
Then I tried to set all the properties of CRAY. When I set tmp2 to 0 it began to create GOL and I understood.
So keep wondering about ANYTHING and you'll learn much more.
Well, you just liked to look up the code, and if our members all follow you, who can learn how that calculator works? And then use the technology in their saves?
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I think this is the same for PCLN, CLNE and CONV.
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When will you add me to the club members list? I made what you told me to do (a piston that can push a maximum of 50 pixels), and even made it way more complex than it needed to be...
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I just finished a prototype ispired by Feynman's recent creation.
Should I keep working on it?
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Definitely! It looks pretty interesting.
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I got no saves published, but been on TPT for a while. May I join?
