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Soap Struts

  • sandstorm     17th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    I am going to build a city... and I have an issue. 

    I want to make some 1px thick struts, but I don't want anything to collide with them. I was thinking I could use a set of soap strings, or struts, but I'm not sure how to implement this (9px of solid around one end or something, holding it in place, then "connecting" it to a similarly restrained soap particle.

    is there a way to connect two soap particles via console? or do I have to Copy & Paste?

    any ideas would be helpful.

    (any good diagrams for geothermal powerplants would also be appreciated)

  • Oats     17th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    We have a problem. I think I understand what you mean but more often than not, the joins between soap seem to reset beifly when you reload a simulation. So if you held them in place and then re-loaded or opened the save, they would fall off. I don't know if this applies to doing it with the console however

  • sandstorm     17th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    hm. what else could I use?

  • sandstorm     18th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    hello? anybody?

  • mniip     18th Jan 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Oats (View Post)
    Nope.

    @sandstorm (View Post)
    You can set the life of all of them to 65535, set tmp of first to id of second, tmp of second to id of third, etc...
  • sandstorm     18th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    wait, so shift the tmp's of each one down one? will two with the same tmp connect?

  • jacksonmj     18th Jan 2013 Developer 0 Permalink

    If you don't mind the struts glowing, perhaps use photons instead? Set life to 0 so that they don't disappear, and set velocity to zero.

  • sandstorm     18th Jan 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    oh, that's a good one. thanks for the idea!

    actually, maybe they could be electrons, because the glow less and they could be power cables!

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