The Powder Toy

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  • singularity     28th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    This may be hard.

    BUT I have a great idea what if particles could react with eachother and create particles that are not on the menu?

    Such as Acid + sugar= gases.

    (we did this at school yesterday)

    You may also need to add potassium.

    When mixed with Nitro glycerine (NOT REALISTIC) = potassium nitrate.

    When mixed with sugars and then fire is applied results in a slow burning dust like substance.


    May take a while but will be awesome in the long run.


    Thanks.
  • lolzy     28th Jul 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    That would be very nice but
    A. Would probably need a selection like for heat-sim.
    B. People have debated about TPT becoming The Chemistry TOy
  • triclops200     28th Jul 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    the chemistry toy would be fun but it would require alot of programming and a new particle interaction code for unknown particles, it would be very time consuming, and would probably branch off the old one.
  • Ellih14     28th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    wouldnt it just be like when you add SLT to WTR it becomes SLTW?
  • triclops200     28th Jul 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    no... we have that programmed in directly, what he's talking about is mixing gas+acid and making an element that has not been directly programmed in.
  • Ellih14     28th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    oh rite yeah but if you wouldnt you just make it a direct element anyway for convenice?
  • triclops200     28th Jul 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    yes, but that was an example, we wouldn't have the time or the manpower to add all the possible mixes by hand, and the code for mixing elements from scratch would be way too time consuming to make.
  • Ellih14     28th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    yes i hav done a tiny bit of programming as a school option and even the simple programming is time consuming
  • ESS     28th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    The amount of time that a programming task takes depends greatly on what language you are programming in. In C, which is what PT is written in, development times for complex code can be ginourmous. Whereas, in a language such as Python (my personal favorite) a program such as a simple web browser can be made with under 100 lines of code and with as few as 2 or 3 hours of work.
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