The Powder Toy

I want to participate

  • Searcher     11th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Hi, I'm a programmer and physicist from Russia. You do a good job, I want to help you as I can.
    I found that lava cools down too quickly, so it can't flow down the mountain.
    I found that plasma has no reaction on electomagnetic field.
    Uran and plutonium don't slpit in common conditions, so they don't have a crytical mass.
    Nuclear explosion should generate plasma ball of high temp. and press., but also it should instantly heat all around because of strong light emission. There's no need in specific wave generated, spreading plasma will do all job.
    When C4 explodes underwater, flames instantly appear on the surface, but they shouldn't at all.
    Air shouldn't be everywhere, fire must burn it. And fire shouldn't burn when pressure is not enough or O2 concentration is small (it could be another param for the air) or when all pixels around are busy with other materials than air or O2.
    etc., etc.

    May be I can give a little help with coding also.
  • HeyJD     11th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Lava always stays hot unless touched by a colder object.
    A electromagnetic field is not coded into TPT.
    Ect. Ect.


    Remember, this is a simulator. Not real life.

    But yeah you can help with coding. Look at the wiki for more info on how you can help.
  • bchandark     11th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    The current onsite wiki is a bit lacking; this one is more thorough: http://the-powder-toy.wikispaces.com/

    For the other things, TPT bypasses these laws to make the game easier for people who aren't scientists (some people might not know you need O2 to have fire).
  • Xenocide     11th Oct 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    The latest source is available on github
    http://github.com/facialturd/the-powder-toy

    feel free to download and do whatever you want (within the license) with it, i know i do :P
  • pilojo     11th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    bchandark
    Recently copied external wiki to here.

    And, not knowing you need oxygen for fire :O shocking, I would be surprised if someone thought there could be a fire without oxygen.
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