Official Game Feedback
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It would be great to have ARAY and CRAY with a 'no diagonal' mode. Maybe it could be incorporated into their tmp2 or something. It's usefulness is especially for making electronics more compact.
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@Darkn1883r (View Post)
Currently only DRAY has a 'no diagonal' mode when sparked by INWR. I don't think one will be added to older elements though. tmp2 might already be taken (not completely sure). Also INWR can't be used for CRAY because that's already a complicated thing where it might do something different with CRAY(SPRK). -
ARAY does not use tmp2, CRAY only use it for LIFE types https://github.com/simtr/The-Powder-Toy/blob/master/src/simulation/elements/CRAY.cpp#L96
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Could the large screen mode just be scaled according to the screen size rather than just doubling it's own size? Thanks.
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it has to be a multiple of an integer of the original screen size, right now its 2, so each particle becomes 4 pixels in a square.
doing it any other way would give you a bunch of weird looking pixels because they wouldnt all have the same number of them.
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When will the next update be? And it would really be nice to have a better non c++ tutorial.
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What would we put in a non-c++ tutorial? There's a Lua tutorial, if that's what you're asking, but Powder Toy is written in c++.
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@NorthMustang (View Post)
There is no plan for when the next update will be. It's not like we are pouring tons of features into it right now but it does have a few interesting things at least :P
Also assuming you need Lua, yeah we do need a tutorial ):. There are lots of helpful pages, but there is no single page I can link people to and say "here, follow this tutorial". But these are helpful:
https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=17801
https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki/W/Lua_API:Elements.html
http://starcatcher.us/scripts/#5 http://starcatcher.us/scripts/#19 http://starcatcher.us/scripts/#7 (also any other scripts people have made, nice to learn by example) -
I thought Boxmein made a Lua tutorial?
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@FeynmanLogomaker (View Post)
he made a lua script designer actually. http://boxmein.net/tptelements/#lua
Although still not really a tutorial and it has a few problems. The example update function is completely wrong and not what anyone ever makes it look like anyway.if surround_space==0 and nt==0 then
return 1 -- This kills the pixel.
else
return 0 -- This keeps it alive.
end
Returning '1' doesn't do anything special except skip the movement code, it's there for if the particle has died though. Also surround_space and nt theoretically make it faster but nobody really uses them.Edited once by jacob1. Last: 5th Nov 2014
