Most Wanted Feature
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Both sound incredibly useful, thanks! I gave +1
I was having a look at the list of old TPT versions. Why are all the dates all May 20th? I don't see an easy way to fix that, even if you get the real dates off a master changelog or the metadata it would take time, there are alot of updates. It does seem to have affected the order though, and in a weird way too. It's not in alphanumeric or alphabetical order like you would expect, the files are all out of order. That would make things tricky as all hell if you were trying to determine what version any given feature was broken or removed, like I was about to do.
I know what my most wanted feature is, I have wanted it for a long time, and it becomes more and more necessary as tech evolves. Multithreading!Edited 3 times by imkira3. Last: 15th Jul 2018 -
If you're looking for subframe-friendly functionality like easy layering, you might want to check out my mod (https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=21251). Anyway, multithreading would completely wreck subframe, so I'm not sure that's something you really want.
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TPT already uses threading to a small extent. Threading the particle simulation is near impossible, and the workarounds required would likely ruin most/all of the gains from threading it. tbh i dont know if it's possible at all.
An entirely diffrent game should try and do threading. TPT itself can't do it, and threading would break even basic electronics (Like, say, SPRK itself) -
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The dates on those files are broken because they were all copied from the old server on May 20th. Can't really fix that, it just uses the file dates.
I'll make a TODO note to fix https://powdertoy.co.uk/Download/Browse.html to show all versions. The "Older" versions are so incredibly old you probably don't want them for anything. They are all from 2011 at the latest.
As for multithreading, I think we should focus on putting air in its own thread, and after that, putting graphics in its own thread. This would make tpt a lot faster, with only minor downsides. Air and graphics would both be delayed by a frame. Also, graphics functions wouldn't be allowed to modify state anymore, this should only be an issue for Lua and poorly coded mods though. -
TPT has had that for ages. Lua scripts can make new elements.
