Bug that lets any element absorb electrons

  • Haspaker
    8th Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

     

    As you can see, any two pixel wall will absorb electrons, even though the pixels themselves are not conductive. I suppose this is not indended, since it makes it very hard to predict the behaviour of electrons.

  • jacob1
    8th Jun 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Haspaker (View Post)
    This is a bug, but fixing it would be hard because you would have to change the reflection code for energy particles, and that might also break saves. It may be fixed eventually, but not by me. For now, just don't use a 2 pixel thick wall.
  • Catelite
    9th Jun 2012 Former Staff 0 Permalink

    I'm not totally sure about this myself, at least with photons you get certain 'dead angles' where calculating the end result angle of a moving photon would take more time than would be convenient, causing death of the particle.

     

    ...I don't have any idea if particles like electrons and neutrons use this code though.