Why was deco disable on Photon?

  • icehq-gmail-com
    4th Aug 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    Most of my old saves depended on photon having deco, and besides that's the only way of having moving items with deco. :(

  • Protcom
    4th Aug 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @icehq-gmail-com (View Post)

     

    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=17105&PageNum=35#Message=272652

    I know this is very bad to not have this feature and I was planning to play around with it but we have to face it :(

    Edited once by Protcom. Last: 4th Aug 2014
  • xetalim
    4th Aug 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    Blame @jacob1

    Always blame @jacob1.
    For he is a fake potato.

  • Cacophony
    4th Aug 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    jacksonmj was talking about this just yesterday,saying there was a reason deco was removed from photon Here it is:

    Deco is being removed from PHOT because it's confusing to have two colours for a photon - it might seem reasonable to expect that colouring a photon will make it behave differently (e.g. different refraction angle in glass), but changing deco colour does not affect behaviour in any way. Also because PHOT deco never worked properly anyway, it only coloured the centre pixel, not the glow.

     

  • nucular
    4th Aug 2014 Member 2 Permalink
    Let's just make the deco editor modify the wavelength of photons! *opens mod folder*
  • G-LinuxorU
    5th Aug 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @icehq-gmail-com (View Post)

     i'm willing to bet when the update comes all saves made before the update wont have the decoration layer removed, instead you just wont be able to decorate PHOT any more. i could be wrong about this, but it's how updates that may break old saves are usually released. (maybe a mod could confirm/deny this)

    @nucular (View Post)

     you-know.. that may not be a bad idea.

  • h4zardz1
    5th Aug 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    @nucular (View Post)
    nah, any of the developers can paste your mod on a layer then....
  • jacksonmj
    5th Aug 2014 Developer 1 Permalink

    @G-LinuxorU (View Post)

    Yes.

     

    @nucular (View Post)

    I suspect implementing that will be somewhat difficult.

  • 6nop6nop
    3rd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    use Prot instead, id doesn't have as much of a glow, but it works. or maybe elec?

  • FeynmanLogomaker
    3rd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    @jacksonmj (View Post)
    It might be doable using a separate tool in the deco editor