I'm gonna request this again.

I did in an email and the response was just to be smoother with a mouse.

PLEASE implement a curve function. It can be a very simple curve even. Maybe just an arc. Or something similar to the curve function in paint. There are simply things I can't do without this kind of a function.

Also, a line tool would be wonderful. Set a thickness and draw a line (straight, polygonal, or curved) and have it automatically generate a polygon of whatever thickness is defined.  It's so irritating and irrational to try and draw an odd shape by drawing all the boundaries when it could be done very easily by just drawing the centerline and giving it a thickness.

Another request would be different liquids. It seems that your liquids don't have properties like surface tension or viscosity since they are just like a collection of particles. Still, how about creating liquids of different densities by setting the liquid density to whatever the density of whatever you're liquifying.

With respect to mass, it would be nice to be able to define the mass of something and automatically set the density appropriately. Both options are good, but in the example where I'm trying to make some balanced system with different components, being restricted to manipulating the density and not the mass (which is a direct function of density so you could go both ways as to defining one and inferring the other) is frustrating.

One more thing I'd love to see is magnetism. If you ever end up implementing orbital mechanics, or part specific gravity, then adding a second set of forces in magnetism would be relatively easy. Just set the charge, positive or negative, and the magnitude of the charge (which determines how much attraction, analogous to gravity, the object/s have).

I'm sure you've seen the rocket experiments. It would be wonderful to be able to fill a space with a 'gas' and set it to a high compression. Like a fluid, or like the particles people use, being able to have an expanding gas like an explosion would be great.

Last edited by twdfx (2008-03-11 14:09:18)

I think it would be nice if the console included a way to import objects by giving their raw text data(exactly as seen in a phn file).   This would make it more convenient to import objects from external apps that generate object data.  So you could paste their results into the console and the object would appear in the scene.

I love a lot of the suggestions here and would like to add my support for explosions and more drawing tools too.

You know what would be awesome?

If you (or somebody else, as soon as it's open source) could port it to be DS homebrew. There's a similar game called pocket physics, but that's just not as phun! (oh the phuns)

New Icons. I hate the current one, so I spent some time on some new ones
"Phun" is the best at lowres, and looks nice
"phun2" Looks GREAT at all except low (could anyone make it so at low rez it does phun, and the rest phun2?)
"Phun2died" is the uninstall for phun2
"phun original" is a MUCH better version of the original
"PhunTrash" is the uninstall for all the phuns excluding phun2

Here they are!

Don't know if this has been added or WILL be added, but the ability to flip objects, not just rotate them, what if i make a triangle with the brush tool say for the wing of a rocket and then i try to duplicate it onto the other side, i've got to draw it again, it would be way better to just be able to flip the object horizontally.
Also, i really would like windspeed and some type of combustion, also possibly the ability to create vacuums, I.e in an engine, also be able to pressurize (inside) specific objects, i know it's a big ask to code in, but it would make Phun a whole lot more dynamic.
Like i said if any of these have/will be added then i'm just supporting them and i'd also like to know (If they have been added, I.e the flipping thing) how do you do that?
Thanks.

I would love being able to directly paste in .phn format to add new objects!

Also, an advanced pane somewhere well hidden in the menus where its possible to edit the object representation directly: edit all values, add/remove vertices, and so on.

I'm sure this has been suggested before but when drawing boxes, it should draw the box at an angle. Trying to box a box and then turn it 45° only to find out it isn't long enough. Area subtraction when polygons overlap would be cool.

Well, that's all nice. But it would cost enormous computational strength..

thatfailedlogicgateguy wrote:

link0007 wrote:

Well, that's all nice. But it would cost enormous computational strength..

Well, if you think of what Powder and Sand game can achieve, one has to wonder... Maybe it's realistically possible, but, As Emil would say, it would only be implemented post insanity

Powder and Sand? what's that?

Don't know if this has been suggested yet...but I want ShockWaves!!! (didm't read the entire thread!!!)

Basically, if an object falls, it creates a shockwave that pushes all the other objects away, depending, of course, on how hard the object hits the plane.

I was working with the .phn data for a circle and decided to figure out how the "angle =" thing worked. when you make any object, the default is angle = 0.0 and for circles, that meant the bar (Enable shaders off) goes from the center to the right edge of the circle. When you rotate and the bar points up the angle = 1.57079632679. this seemed odd so I rotated the circle so it pointed left and then angle = 3.1415926. ahhh I see... The angle is based on pi. how horrible! now you can't get a precise number because pi is irrational! it goes on for infinity! So instead, angle = 0.0 should have that bar thing on the circle point up and and angle increases, the circle turns clockwise. up to 100. Not 360 because that was a arbitrary number chosen by people who were bad at doing fractions and 360 is divisible by many numbers. lets keep it simple. also when phun saves numbers, it over complicates  things. if i insert a number like 6.8373 in the data files then load phun and then save it again, it might save it like this: 6.8373000000636777777 which is annoying. It even does this for numbers like 0! I look at the data files it would be turned into this: 6.827363849e-12 which dosen't make much sense. it seems like the program would round a number to a more simple form rather that make it bigger. strange.

damn.