Radians are used in Adobe Flash but most developers calculate the radians using the Math function to convert degrees into radians so flash can read and rotate the object. Maybe if phun did the same. Save the angle as degrees (in a simple form 1.23456 as to not over complicate things for the program) and in the program it converts the degrees to radians to rotate the circle. That would solve that.

Phool wrote:

I think what xStil is trying to say is that it would be nice if it were possible to build

http://www.pha.jhu.edu/dept/lecdemo/img … 00x300.jpg

in Phun.

I was talking about "'object to ground' collision shockwaves"

You know, meteor hit earth=shockwave
Bullet collide with oerson=shockwave

That kind of shockwave, if an object falls, it doesn't just bounce off, or stick to the ground like in the Current Phun. It also should create a shockwave that "shakes" all the other objects.

hogofwar wrote:

what about the ability to "script" ways objects interact  and work?
also magnets and pre made chains and gears are great too!
what about string with is bendy rectangles.

I'd like magnets... but also 'plug-in' shapes would be nice.

This would allow for gears and anything else the community thinks of.

The plug-ins would be special .phn scenes, placed in a plug-in folder.

They could work just like importing scenes, except you can scale them too.

jsjwooowooo wrote:

Custom menus like adding your own options and shapes would be nice. A background picture importer to add a different background besides clouds/sky. Drawing onto background to add notes and whatnot that don't affect objects. Different materials and maybe eventually some sound would be cool. Like add your favorite background track to keep you peppy while you work. Timers to set off actions and other variables to create more complex scenes. Export as .avi or other movie file option or just like a record so you can move around and work while what your doing is saved as a movie!

I have hard time believing that .avi exporting will be available until Phun is not beta, but great idea !

Anyways, a bunch of other suggestions for Phun LISTED FROM HIGHEST PRIORITY TO LOWEST PRIORITY:

1. Electron charges. (basically control what kind of charge an object has [positive, negative, neutral]. This will create effects such as lightning, objects sticking to one another, etc.)
2. Fire (definitely a good idea to have *ignitibility* and *ignite* as an option in the drop down menu, so that if there is friction and a spark,  or you click *ignite* there will be fire, and the object will slowly disappear*)
3. TouchPad friendliness (obviously)
4. Shockwaves (you know what that is)
5. Melt function (basically, an improved version of liquefy, where the object is liquefied according to its properties [Density, friction, bounciness, color].)
6. Brush function, that allows you to pause [when you release the left button, the white line is still deemed unfinished] so that you can make shapes that are currently impossible [donut, holes, etc...]

Hope it isn't too much I am asking, but those look like great suggestions to me.

I think way in the future of Phun a PhunOS should be created! You would have like all your shortcuts but the background would be an active Phun window constantly running! Some things from like actual desktop work would interact with the active Phun background. Probably would slow productivity though...

jsjwooowooo wrote:

I think way in the future of Phun a PhunOS should be created! You would have like all your shortcuts but the background would be an active Phun window constantly running! Some things from like actual desktop work would interact with the active Phun background. Probably would slow productivity though...

Hah, have fun remembering to fixate every window and icon to your desktop to keep them from falling away

peepsalot wrote:

jsjwooowooo wrote:

I think way in the future of Phun a PhunOS should be created! You would have like all your shortcuts but the background would be an active Phun window constantly running! Some things from like actual desktop work would interact with the active Phun background. Probably would slow productivity though...

Hah, have fun remembering to fixate every window and icon to your desktop to keep them from falling away

LMAO

How about a polygon tool? Not like the freehand one we have now, but one that you can do straight edges. Like on Paint you have the tool where you draw a line, then you click and it connects up until you reach the end. I think this'll be really useful when making complex shapes.
(Has this been suggested already?)

Hi there i'm, new

Phun is the best thing since ever and i'm glad that you/they handing it out for free!

there are some improvements in my mind anyway:

- Option to run Phun as screensaver with your own contraptions without any menus or dialogs (just watch them go)
- speed control option to set to hours/minutes/sec so you can set rotate to one full cycle /hour (i want to create a clock for the screensaver )
- Extrude one shape out of the other to make donuts and other intresting shapes
- AI import (or .eps) this is very high on my wish list
- smart object  (i.e. always face up, always face ..., stick to objects by example color, if colide with object with color than disapear/start motor/ reverse motor...etc) would making walking robots and all kind of weird contraptions much easier and more fun and more chalengeing
- rope
- polygon bezier tool
- Phun 3D
- more prn

thank you for your time, and have some phun!

A load menu that is not just a single column.  It is too easy to fill up the column, and it becomes unusable as the list of files goes on past the edge of the screen.  This is especially troublesome on my 1024x768 screen, and I am continually forced to delete/move/backup many of my .phn files just to keep the list size small enough. 

It would also be nice if you could browse other folders.

Yeah, the compressibility of water seems to be way too high at the moment.

What about to ability to export to .swf so you can show it off on-line
And I know phun doesn't use box2d but what about the ability to do the same as above to .phn files to box2das3 flash file

Last edited by hogofwar (2008-03-21 16:39:47)

sometimes, I exit the game because a scene causes too much strain on mu cpu. but when I go and start-up phun again, the cpu-heavy scene got auto saved. it sucks.