Shield Addition Velocity and Pressure Blocking

  • MPSGA
    12th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Hello. I have an idea (3 before, but they kind of 'sucked') for the Shield element in the famous and amazing, The Powder Toy.
    1st idea:

    * Shield to block any kind of velocity and pressure
    To make Shield (SHL1, SHL2, SHL3 or whatever (sorry ))
    block air pressure, so it would be like a force field.
    This would serve the true purpose of the Shield as a energy force field.

    That's it. Hope you like that idea. As I have no idea about Element Programming in The Powder Toy,
    it might not be possible to make an element completely pressure blocking.
  • Catelite
    12th Dec 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    If you make any element thick enough in quantity it effectively blocks off pressure about 90%. Shield element is designed more to take the blunt effect of nukes, to protect wires on machines that blast stuff from being burned by their own explosions. ^^

    It would probably be possible to make an element emulate the pressure blocking effect of walls but I dunno that much myself.
  • HarmonicFarts
    12th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    MPSGA
    I don't know much about PT's physics engine...
    But wouldn't be impossible to block pressure with a 1px wall of an element?
  • MPSGA
    12th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    OK, thank you. Just hope that my idea will be added... Blunt effect?