Changing environments

  • HeyJD
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I thought of something...
    Being able to change environments...
    Lets say there's a button sort of like the display mode button.
    And this new button will change the environment.

    So there could be environments like....

    ● default... where it's space-like.

    ●Gravity... where at the bottom there's ground and all the solids fall to the ground in the shape it was drawn.

    ●(from ssc4k)Directional gravity... Where particles can go the gravity you choose with a shortcut key.

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    This won't be that efficient until we have gotten enough useful environments.

    So that's all I've thought of for now... I might add more and add other people environment ideas..

    So post your ideas...
  • Seirra-259
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    that would take a lot of coding. we don;t even have a proper gravity. also, there is a no grav. version of pt. you can edit the one you have by changing the source.
  • HeyJD
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    @Seira-259
    yeah I know it would take a lot of coding.

    But

    It would make a whole new powder toy.

    All new possibilities.

    Although I won't efficient until when we get enough environments...

    So we need people to think of more.
  • MPSGA
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I have been thinking of it for a long time now. Glad somebody said something about it.
  • HeyJD
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    So... nobody can think of any environments?
  • ssc4k
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    If this gets though directional gravity control through the arrow keys would be a great way to modify the environment of TPT by allowing more complex machines, design, and gameplay. It wouldn't be that hard to code in either.

    Perhaps the previously ill fated sandbox temp would be a good environment variable also?
  • HeyJD
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    ssc4k:
    Perhaps the previously ill fated sandbox temp would be a good environment variable also?

    What!?
  • Brennus97
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I was thinking the same almost since I discovered the Powder Toy. Another suggestion would be centric gravity, where everything goes to the middle; or orbital gravity where everything tries to orbit the middle; or reverse gravity where everything went away from the middle. A probably more difficult one to make would be collective gravity, where objects attract to each other.
  • crazy88
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    lols time for relativity! jokes
    don't know how it could be programed (ie the attraction to seperate entities) but would be extremely good for TPT to have these gravity abilites IMO
  • HeyJD
    19th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Heaps of people are making topics about making solids fall...

    So... I'm... just saying... that this idea would be very good...