The Powder Toy

Port to Raspberry Pi?

  • Candunc     17th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    As TPT++ stands today, it is very complex and runs at a sub-standard FPS on most computers. Would there be way to make a slimmed down Powder Toy, with even half the elements that runs great even on older computers, and the raspberry pi? 

     

    Maybe a TPT Slim?

     

    I haven't actually tried to run TPT on a Pi, and I'm sure you could make a local version on it. 

     

    Edit: I'll try a compile later today and run it, just to give an idea of the FPS and stuff

  • boxmein     17th Dec 2012 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @Candunc (View Post)
    Hey, that's even do-able! :O
    You could get the source of something like version 35 or so, it has a lot less elements, it's the old version and should run with excellent speed. https://powdertoy.co.uk/Download/Older/powder-35.0-lin32.zip
  • Candunc     18th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    I compiled the source myself, and it ran at 6 FPS at a blank screen. An openGL port or something would run nicely I guess, as the GPU is pretty powerful

  • kroq-gar78     12th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Well, recently I haven't even been able to compile TPT++ on the Pi itself. It runs out of RAM when it gets to "ld", so I started to look into cross-compiling for it but haven't really done anything for it. And yes, at a blank screen version 80-something ran at about 7 FPS.

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