Battery life
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I figured out how to make BTRY a more realistic element. You just need to add the "life" parameter decreasing each frame. While the value is greater than 0, the BTRY generates a current -
Being realistic is not a requirement for an element in TPT. Being useful *is* though, and with BTRY and some other materials you can build a component that generates "current" (just sparks, really) for a predefined amount of frames. BTRY is useful in the sense that it decreases clutter, since you don't have to build ugly spark loops to get infinite sparks.
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Infinite current may be get from CONV feature if set ctype SPRK and around is a conductive element. Or it may be BTRY with life=0. I don't wrote that BTRY with life=0 won't generate current.
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No, you wrote that BTRY with life greater than 0 generates current. That implies that BTRY with life value equal to 0 doesn't. That'd break a lot of saves. And anyway, that's completely beside my point as it's an implementation detail.
That aside, I still think this is pointless. Let me reiterate. I'm deeming it pointless because it's easy to build something that does the same thing, and while it may be bigger than a single particle, I can't see why you'd need too many of them.
Edited once by LBPHacker. Last: 20th Aug 2017
