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Hi!
a) Yes, sim.createParts has changed, though only in the manner I outlined in my last comment here: in a way that still allows it to be used in simulation contexts without involving brushes. Why this doesn't apply to your case is hard to tell without seeing your code.
b) Dynamic heat display can in fact do that, there just happens to be no way to configure it from the user interface yet, nor is it documented. There'sren.heatDisplayLimits(low, high)
, where low/high are either numbers or the string"auto"
, which translates appropriately to the min/max heat being drawn. There's alsoren.heatDisplayAutoArea(x, y, w, h)
to configure the area in pixel coordinates that the min/max is applied to.Edited once by LBPHacker. Last: 7th May -
Hello!
a) Thanks, I thought the idea was to code it the same but without using the brushes that are only available in the UI. So that last parameter for the shape can only be set to ellipse, is that it? Are there plans to implement rectangle and triangle shapes in the future like the original createParts did?
b) Ah, great! That's fantastic, thank you!
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@Ximorro (View Post)
About wiki, yeah I'll update it before release (I hope), although I don't know what kind of format the restrictions will be in.
About dynamic heat display, I agree with what you said. Heat display is one of the things I want to port from my mod, and I'll definitely be adding an option to set a fixed min/max onto the UI. (the more powerful options I'll probably leave as Lua only).
@Ximorro (View Post)
Shapes are a feature of brushes, so things like triangle / square won't work. But for square, you can use sim.createBox instead. For triangle ... well, I have no idea why you'd ever want that.
If you have more issues, you can post your script and I can try to help. You may want to offload things onto a tick event for example. Queue up a list of actions and then run them in an interface event, that kind of thing. -
I was considering creating a small script to show my problems but I noticed all errors came from createParts creating boxes, and as you suggested with createBox it's fixed now, thanks.
Yes, I understand the wiki is not updated until release, I just checked there before bothering you.
About dynamic heat display, that mode is VERY useful, thankyou. I don't know if many people is using the original mode with the full range.
By the way, why "Reduce gravity effects on ambient heat"? Does ambient heat change gravity??
Ok with the shapes, please notice I was just suggesting, never complaining, you're doing a great job.
EXACTLY, we can do it with sim.createBox(), and yes, I've never used triangle brush, I only mentioned it because it was available in original createParts. I didn't use createBox() before because with createParts I only had to change the last parameter to select ellipse or rectangle so I always used the same function.
Since we have createBox for rectangles/squares and now createParts is only going to create circle (ellipse) shapes maybe it would be a good time to change its name to createCircle or CreateEllipse (or whatever you think is suitable), now that we are in a stage of some LUA changes and maybe we have to update some scripts anyway.
For those interested, the change from createParts to createBox is as follows. Notice that createParts uses center and radius and createBox corner coordinates. For instance creating a rectangle of embers centered in x,y it changes from:
sim.createParts(x, y, radiusX, radiusY, elem.DEFAULT_PT_EMBR, 1) -- 0=circle, 1=box, 2=triangle
to
sim.createBox(x-radiusX, y-radiusY, x+radiusX, y+radiusY, elem.DEFAULT_PT_EMBR)
For circles/ellipses is the same as before, just ignore last parameter in createParts()
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@Ximorro (View Post)
Ambient heat flows opposite the direction of gravity. In real-world terms that's "hot air goes up", but in tpt gravity could be radial or in any other custom direction, and the air engine accounts for that. 99.0 changed this a little to improve airflow, but it went too far in some cases, so that's why they were reduced. It should still be stronger than pre-99.0.
