Improving ARAY

  • meep2000
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    ARAY is already awesome, and has been used in many saves, but it has one severe limitation.
    The BRAY it shoots out is always at 22C. The ARAY can be at 9000C (sparked with SWCH) and all it does
    is just cools down the ARAY. My idea is to make it so ARAY does not conduct heat and make it so that all the BRAY particles it shoots out have the same temperature as the ARAY particle. That would make it possible to have tiny ARAY guns that can melt stuff other than NICE. I don't think it'll break any saves. ARAY doesn't do anything when heated up already anyways other than conduct heat.
  • cctvdude99
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @meep2000 (View Post)
    Might break saves, but I doubt it.
    I've tried making an ARAY gun, but the heat that was enough to melt metal only got 10 pixels along before it disappeared.
  • meep2000
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I would implement it myself but I have issues with compiling and running TPT source code. It just needs one person to add a line in ARAY.c (something like r.temp=i.temp;) and change the conductivity number thingy. Can someone do this or is this just a dumb idea?
  • Spektyte
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    This has been suggested about six or seven times now, each time receiving positive feedback, though it has never been added. Maybe you'll get lucky this time.

    Needless to say, I fully support this idea.
  • hachouma
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    useful suggestion, it'll make lasers accessible to everyone
  • vanquish349
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @meep2000 (View Post)
    i have just added this to powder-sim expect it to be in a future release of powder-sim
  • therocketeer
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    [temp of aray = temp of bray] would be intresting.
  • cctvdude99
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @meep2000 (View Post)
    I'll add it to my mod, when I get around to dealing with it.
    (which will hopefully be after the next release of TPT)
  • meep2000
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @everyone
    Thank you!

    @vanquish349 and @cctvdude99
    I'll try it out!

    @cctvdude99
    You're banned again...
  • taytalon
    24th Nov 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    meep2000 thats a awesome idea