The Powder Toy

Shorter life for sparks

  • Uberfatty     28th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    When a new spark is created, it has a life of four, which causes the lenght of the spark on any type of metal to be 8 pixels. For compact circuits that lenght often causes problems. I recently made a memory system (which uses METL and INWR) in which the length of sparks prevented it from working properly if two adjacent cells have '1' stored in them.

     

    8px Sparks are a hell to work with when building compact circuits so please shorten them.

  • The-Fall     28th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    I will agree with this. However, you could use WIRE, which has one pixel sparks.

    However logic gates in WIRE are rather large...

  • Jallibad     29th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @Uberfatty (View Post)

     the problem is it might throw the time off for some saves...  And then they would no longer work.

  • Catelite     29th Jul 2012 Former Staff 0 Permalink

    We can't exactly just screw with mechanics older than the game itself. :( Maybe a game mod could do this, but I'm not totally sure how this would be arranged for the official.

  • The-Fall     29th Jul 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    How about the spark speed on saves could be set to accomadatesaves requiring a different spark Life? An option under the options menu. This would need to add an constant to the save format to keep whatever parameter is set by users.

  • Poorsoft     29th Jul 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    How about we just make a new wire then? Call it Short Spark Wire: SSWR. Helpful enough?

  • jjbagley     29th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    A good idea right there

  • Jallibad     29th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @Poorsoft (View Post)

     why not just use INST...

  • Catelite     29th Jul 2012 Former Staff 1 Permalink

    For circuits less than two particles long Jallibad, INST is actually slower. :P

  • me4502     29th Jul 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Catelite (View Post)

    A new spark maybe? SSPK, Short Spark.
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