Advanced Powder Game

  • Gamewizard71
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @devast8
    do you code for powder toy?
  • devast8a
    3rd Feb 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @Gamewizard71
    I have, it didn't make it into the official branch however. Why do you ask?
  • Catelite
    3rd Feb 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    "Well since a lot of the advanced ideas have been "shot" down because the coders want to preserve the simplicity of powder toy."

    Lost credibility with me in less than one sentence.

    Osmosis as an idea in physics only works because of the intrinsic properties of water, which TPT doesn't even come close to. It simulates particles, not molecules.

    Individuals atoms wouldn't work as particles unless in a joking sense, and building a periodic table of elements that WORKS in TPT isn't going to happen due to the exponential nature of neighbor reactions involved and the IMMENSE coding task that would be involved. It doesn't help that the nearly infinite combinations of which would never even come close to fitting into a tiny 800 kb applet like Powder Toy. Not. Even. Close.

    We already have Photosynthesis. Add PSCN to NSCN, apply photons. Plants burn with photons, it's supposed to work that way.

    ...If you can think of elements to fuse to make fusion, then have at it. The pressures and temperatures involved would make the explosions produced effectively pointless within TPT's scale of pressure and heat.

    More accurate reaction speeds and properties also isn't going to happen. This game simulates falling sand games, not IRL physics.

    Higher max pressure and temperatures MIGHT happen someday. But not anytime soon.

    Electrolysis of various elements already exists. Check out Iron and Water.

    Moving solids is vaguely possible, but not in the sense that people are actually asking for. If you want it, find a genius to make a fancy formula for it, and we're set. TPT is a particle sim, not a physics sim. Interlocking joints, falling balls, and other things aren't going to happen anytime soon. Powder Game's moving solids aren't normal particles, but things specially programmed into the game, such as stickman.
  • code1949
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Gamewizard71
    Okay, we are losing our patience so I will put it bluntly. Firstly DO NOT DOUBLE POST!!! and you still refuse to listen to us even after we explain why almost everything you suggested was rejected several times. And then you have the nerve to ask your topic to be stickied. FINALLY IF YOU THINK IT'S SO DAMN EASY CODE IT IN YOURSELF!!! I am sick and tired of explaining time and time again why such ideas are rejected so I am not even going to bother. If you think Simon will make an entirely different Powder Toy just for you, you are wrong.
  • Gamewizard71
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    1. Don't yell
    2. I am and will intend to learn how to code.
    3. I am new and i cant search redundant post.
    4. To sticky was just a suggestion you don't have to flip out.
    5. This will be separate version of powder toy. It isn't easy i never said it was.
    6. This will be something I will work on for while because I have already seen most of the internet and i am bored.
    7. This will become as accurate as possible to IRL I can make it.
    8. Things don't happen overnight
    9. This will probably involve a lot of work
    10. Nothing is impossible
  • PizzaPlatypus
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Gamewizard71
    10) Yes it is, plenty of things are impossible, for example for a lump of iron to not get attracted to a magnetic field in our universe. For a scaled up bird to fly on the planet earth and many more.

    Also the current code restricts an element limit of 240 elements, there is almost no way any programmer could program realistic intrinsic physical properties like osmosis, etc.
    Most elements in the periodic table are useless, and my mod is also another decent one, I has grass :D
  • PizzaPlatypus
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @therocketeer
    You obviously don't understand the TP code and how many elements and particles in this world are useless.
    (sorry for the double post)
  • tommig
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    sorry, having second thoughts, i'm not a purist but i honestly don't think it's a great idea, sorry!
  • plead-for-destruction
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    god can make it happen therefor it's not impossible


    and ur just a wus tommig u can't be bothered I'm still in
  • pilojo
    3rd Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Gamewizard71
    I'll help..
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