An Idea that likely won't be added

  • Solace
    19th Mar 2016 Member 1 Permalink

    I've been thinking about a new Idea. An idea so far out of the realms of possibility that I thought, why not give it a shot. 

     

    3-dimensional powder toy. Yes, likely impossible, but people can dream. Anyway, I don't think I have to explain what this would do for the particles and the mouse thingy. What you use to estimate the size of whatever you need, goes from cirle to square to triangle. I forget what it is. 

     

    A 3-d podwer toy would make them  a cube, sphere, and triangular prism. 

     

    Particles would not just fall and move two separte ways,  but fall and move in near infinite ways. People can actually make spacecraft, bunkers, and houses and cities. It'd be time consuming to do, but just imagine the prospect of moving a stickman through a 3-dimensional realm. Bombs, the "realistic" ones that people make would be realistic. The lightning storm maps and flood maps would be  spectacular. 

     

    That aside, bomb test arenas would probably  be impossible to create. Fish tanks would be insane. When people make life particles into fish, just imagine the more dimensional movements liife would  undoubtedly have. On that note,  tron would also be great to watch. make a 3-d maze and watch how long it takes to reach the end. A rube goldberg machine is what tpt has, but 3-d? Damn. 

     

    Honestly, a 3-d tpt would allow myself to make a lego world. 

  • AutoExplode
    19th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    One day when computers could do that much. we would need a ton of processing power and ram and all that conputer stuff for that to work, maybe in the future and oneday where supercomputers are avalible for everyone. im already lagging really bad with a 2d one and a really small screen. perhaps one day it will happen.

  • boxmein
    19th Mar 2016 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    The idea has been thrown around for eons, but even if we disregard the sheer deficit in computing power, how would you build stuff in 3D? Since your mouse is on your table and doesn't know if you lift it up or down, how do you move your cursor three-dimensionally to let you build saves similarly to what's already here?
  • rdococ
    23rd Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @boxmein (View Post)

     You could use the mouse wheel, but that would still present a problem for people who don't have mouse wheels.

  • SGAtlantis
    23rd Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @rdococ (View Post)

     Or you could take the arrow keys or something else to move the camera around.

  • blazerhq
    23rd Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @boxmein (View Post)

     Take for example minecrafts mcedit you could do something like that to move around the camera and cursor

  • Solace
    27th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @boxmein (View Post)

     Realistically, you can add in a mouse feature to the game so you  don't accidentally click down an element. The mouse feature will allow you to click anywhere on the game without clicking on an element. 

     

    By clicking somewhere, you can drag your mouse up to look at the bottom of your build. Drag it down to lookk at the top. Drag it left to look right, and vice versa. 

  • deleted
    29th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @AutoExplode (View Post)

     what about using gpu? good for parallel processing.

  • Emperor_Bowserinator
    29th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @dodo_hacker (View Post) Don't even get us started about particle syncing and all that sh*t.