Property Edit Tool Help

  • biostars
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 2 Permalink

    I'm making a powder toy birthday cake simulation for TPT's 5th birthday, and I'm only using the elements that were in the original. However, in recent years the color of GAS has changed from a solid yellow to a more transparent color, except in Nothing Display. I've decided to use the property edit tool to change the color back to the way it was when TPT was in its early days, but I don't know how. Can someone help?

    For those of you who think I'm cheating, let me tell you this: Unless it's a stickman or a fighter, if it can't be painted, it's not an element.

    Display Note: Fire display offers the best viewing experience, so I'm trying to learn how to change the color (without painting).

  • AngrySpam
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @biostars (View Post)
    none = semi-element...cant color it. so?
    Have you tried deco mode yet? just color it yellow.
  • TinyWolfie
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    TBH a yellow cake sounds funny :3

     

    Yeah, Try painting really, I'm not sure if their's actually a way to change it back besides using an old version. 

  • biostars
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    That won't work with gasses in Fire Display. It also won't work in Blob, Heat, or Fancy Display. Continuation on Display Note: Pressure, Velocity, Persistent, Heat Gradient, and Alternate Velocity also offer solid colors.

  • AngrySpam
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @biostars (View Post)
    then why can i make nble black?
  • biostars
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @TinyWolfie (View Post)

    Here's a link that will show my progress:

    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=833997

    It may be yellow, but that's because I can't really come up with a better color scheme. I'm open to suggestions.

  • jacob1
    2nd Jun 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    The only way to change it back would be to use lua, all gases have the new fire effect by default, it has nothing to do with a property that PROP can edit. I just added a new tpt.graphics_func() function that can be used to make it look like what it used to be, but that obviously wouldn't work for a save other people use (and attempting to use it caused my game to crash because I did it wrong, i'll need to fix that).

    Edit: if you use the deco editor and color it solid yellow, it will look more like it used to, even though the fire effect will still be there.
  • biostars
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @AngrySpam (View Post)

    I meant the majority of gasses, dummkopf!

    @jacob1 (View Post)

    Can you get that fixed by August 1st? I'm on a time limit here, you know! (TPT's 5th birthday: August 11th, 2012, according to Finalflash50)

    Response to edit:I'll try that, then.

  • mniip
    2nd Jun 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    my books dont shoot lightnings when shaken, can you fix that?
  • jenn4
    2nd Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @biostars (View Post)
    How do you fix something that is not broken?