secret elements in regular menu

  • billion57
    1st Jun 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    Save it as autorun.lua in the Powder Toy folder.

  • jacob1
    2nd Jun 2012 Developer 1 Permalink
    I was bored, so here's a short history lesson on disabled elements: (there are secret disabled elements not even enabled with this script)

    @mrsalit0s (View Post)
    Actually, there was an old WIND element too. It used to be an element, not a tool, that did the exact same thing. When you drew with it, the actual element wasn't created, only some pressure was. People discovered you could make it with the console though, and that it was invisible when created. People used it to make some cool things before the deco editor was made. Then, it was removed, made impossible to create, and made not invisible. All saves using it had the WIND replaced with invisible diamond with deco, and the WIND tool was created instead. It also became impossible to create even with the console until version 68.7 when the things you do in this script were added. (or with a glitch I discovered and kept to myself, not telling anyone until I just recently fixed it in the latest betas)

    There are actually some more disabled elements just like wind. BRAN, FROG, and STAR are disabled elements too. Back when GOL elements were made, each one took up a slot, adding tons of new elements. They were taking up too many slots, and tpt currently has a 221 (not 256) limit on the max number of elements, so they were all merged into 1 element: LIFE. All the old elements were disabled, but their names and descriptions were left in. Slowly, as new elements were added, they filled in the old slots one by one. Now, only 3 slots remain. When you create the disabled GOL elements, they look like them, but don't move or react at all. If you add them to the script, you'll have to change their menusection to something besides the GOL menu, because they won't show up in that one.