Useful for towers.

Photoshop!

MasacruTheArcher wrote:

General suggestion :

Adding a feature to the "no-colide" option : When you set an object to not colide with something , you have to chose : NO colide with everything or select the things you don't want it to colide with.Like this i will be able to make a motor wheel on a wall , then i'll fix a stick on the ball [giving it the option to not colide with the wall]then it would rotate with the ball around the wall ,without coliding it , but still being able to interact with other stuff like water.

I've hit this particular limitation before, when trying to add spikes to wheels. The spikes keep hitting the car body. (Why wouldn't attached objects be considered part of the hinged object, by the way? That would be pretty natural in my opinion)

I think it is.

Just FYI, my 11-year-old son and I are completely "Hooked on Phunics"

No matter what the addition, I do think the additions should be simple, in keeping with the spirit of the environment.

Other suggestions I hope fall within my own criteria of "incremental":

Resources:
* Simple gears, specify the number of teeth so they are created properly.
* Water/liquid behavior - doesn't seem to compress properly. Built a water pump with a piston "pushing" water out of a cavity, but it only "sorta" worked.
* Compressible springs

Drawing:
* When clicking on an object, all fixated objects connected thereto should auto-drag as a unit when selected.
* Text annotations on objects
* Smooth curve generation on polygons

Features
* Allow for composite entity save/load, eg build a library of reusable "widgets." For example, if I get a good piston built, I'd like to be able to save just the piston and perhaps re-use it in multiple Phun scenes. You could call a collection of Phun objects a "Phunction Library" (har har)
* Option to turn off all menus, or make them all drop-down

Thanks for a place to post suggestions. I could probably think of a ton of other things, but that's a start. Phun is awesome!

Great stuff!!!

-SoonerDave

How about adding a flip horizontal and flip vertical to the context menu of the objects?

So you can Clone then Flip something to make an exact duplicate mirror item.

1) As MasacruTheArcher already mentioned earlier in this thread, I too would like to be able to have finer control over which objects collide with other objects.
I think that Phun could use a concept "layers" to provide a simple interface for this functionality.  The idea is that only objects on the same layer would collide with each other. 
All objects could be created on the same layer by default, but have the option to change the layer of objects after they are created.
Layers could also be used to help arranging the order of displaying things(as opposed to the restrictive options of "move to front" and "move to back")
This would allow a sort of quasi 3rd-dimension without complicating things too much(if the user never messed changed layers, it would function the same as now).

2) I also hope that collision detection can be improved.  It is currently possible for fast moving objects to pass through other objects, if their distance moved per frame of calculation can put it completely on the other side of the object. ( see http://www.phunland.com/upload/collision%20test2.phn )
Some sort of ray tracing algorithm might work well to find the exact point and time of a collision.
If this sort of algorithm slows down the application considerably, then it might be nice to give the user the option to choose between different collision detection algorithms: for ex. "slow and accurate", or "fast and loose".

3) Lastly, I can't wait for the source to be released ;-)
I am very interested in helping contribute to this great app.

SoonerDave wrote:

Resources: ... * Simple gears, specify the number of teeth so they are created properly...

...uhm... it' very difficult to project/draw gears: there are severe rules that join diameter and number of teeth. In other words, if you have a diameter of (i.e.) 100 pixels, you cannot choose any numer of theet, and vice-versa. May be that if you want 32 teeth the diameter must be 487 pixels (not more, not less). In mechanics engineering you can find those rules.

A good (italian) document I found is: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~cristofo/lezio … -08_bn.pdf

Strange: in Wikipedia there are only superficial documentations (in Italian and English too).

Last edited by SuperSandro (2008-03-08 02:44:29)

Also vote for flip, gears and layers.

Please add grid and snap to grid functionality.

Goran

Peu wrote:

I was just trying to create a kinetic walker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufN43By … re=related

but the hinge doesn't go through more than 2 objects. Can that become a variable on a slider?

I'll second that! I'd love to have a way to pin a hinge through multiple objects, eg hooking multiple rods to a single point on a motorized wheel. As I experiment with it right now, I just don't think it's possible.

Make the water have density. When I liquefy an object the water that comes from it is weightless, it seems. I tried making the water push an object down that was connected to another object with a spring and had a hinge on the other end of it. But the spring didn't stretch so I concluded that the water is kinda weightless
So it would be great if the water had weight. Maybe the weight of the water could depend on the density of the object that is liquefied or it could just be a norm.

Last edited by Joi (2008-03-08 11:52:11)

Joi wrote:

Make the water have density. When I liquefy an object the water that comes from it is weightless, it seems. I tried making the water push an object down that was connected to another object with a spring and had a hinge on the other end of it. But the spring didn't stretch so I concluded that the water is kinda weightless
So it would be great if the water had weight. Maybe the weight of the water could depend on the density of the object that is liquefied or it could just be a norm.

Water does have weight.. do you have gravity on?

If so, press F11 and copy this:
SPH.density = 1.0

Then press enter. Should be good enough.

are11 wrote:

How about a tool with you could resize objects.
For example, i have a car, but it is too big to pipe where i want to place it.
So i could choose geometry options, where would be something like this:
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8373/sizebz3.png
And place it into 0.500 so the car can go trought the pipe.

Maybe for the time being, I could try to make a tool that imports phun objects into Blender. Or that other guy for importing into .ai files.

Then you can scale..

But importers are hard, and my blender scripting skills are near non-existent. I'm still having difficulties with exporting alone.

Last edited by link0007 (2008-03-08 12:11:34)