Scratch

sparks wrote:

Not going to happen in Scratch. The processing power for the powder game (which I love) is just not going to be squeezed out of scratch. You could try it in Panther which has clone blocks you might find very useful, but again, I can't see it managing to work at a reasonable speed past say 100 clone particals.

I tried to make it on panther but it wouldn't work.

This reminds me of the Sand Game mods that are out there. Like wxSand. But if you have a list and each color is a different element ( what we call it in the Sand Game ) you could have a sprite check for collisions and if Water ( blue ) touches Plant ( green ) turn to Plant. Let me see if I can think something up later. Good luck on it. 

TheScratcherOf2012 wrote:

Well you guys are right... if only stamps for sprites had scripts

I think you mean clones. You can make a clone block using the smalltalk code

self duplicateNoAttatch

and delete them using

self undoableDelete

pieclip wrote:

Sorry for the bump, but I just want to say that I'm going to try this. I think it's possible.

Also, The Powder Game was written in Java, not Javascript... They are different.

It'll be pretty hard - you'd need a sprite for every single speck of powder! Anyways, good luck. 

kimmy123 wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

pieclip wrote:

Sorry for the bump, but I just want to say that I'm going to try this. I think it's possible.

Also, The Powder Game was written in Java, not Javascript... They are different.

It'll be pretty hard - you'd need a sprite for every single speck of powder! Anyways, good luck. 

He could use the stamp block and use 1 or 5 sprites.

Still, it'd take forever to render all the sand. Regardless, good luck! I'd be blown away if I saw anything like this. 

kimmy123 wrote:

Maybe some people (including me) could do a collab and make a mini powder game project 
the elements could be: Wall or metal, powder, and water, and player.

That would definitely be fascinating! I'm curious to see what you come up with, but unfortunately my schedule is a touch busy at the moment to be a part of this. 

kimmy123 wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

Maybe some people (including me) could do a collab and make a mini powder game project 
the elements could be: Wall or metal, powder, and water, and player.

That would definitely be fascinating! I'm curious to see what you come up with, but unfortunately my schedule is a touch busy at the moment to be a part of this. 

I wasn't asking you 

I know, I was just expressing my interest in the project while still saying that I didn't want to be a part of it. 

If only stamping were faster, I can only get a smooth movement of 2. But with clones, that wouldn't work to well, cause you'd need to know so many things of each sprite. But moving through each particle would be easier to code. Just check for collisions, and if the collision does anything. This would be so easy if only Scratch were faster. I think they should recode it in some C language, or code it in ASM. Then you'd need to worry about it being to fast    Any other ideas for speeding this up?

My current try to it: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Magnie/1511272

I also have pondered on making a falling sands game like powder game but due to the lack of a clone block in Scratch have been unable. I read that in Scratch 2.0 there will be clone. The absence of the block has also made making some games/simulations very hard(Wanted to make a chain reaction simulation but after making about 40 sprites of which most were nearly identical, I gave up).