Bring Newtonian forces out from behind the modesty curtain of "target speeds", "strengths", and "densities"

TheBeardyMan 11 de agosto de 2021 20:22

At times, Dreams' attitude to Newtonian forces can seem like Victorian England's apocryphal attitude to curvy table legs.

We know that Newtonian forces are in there somewhere - the physics simulation is consistent provided that you don't do anything too strange. Yet nowhere is there a place where I can type a number and that number is a Newtonian force - not even in the tweak menu of the gadget that calls itself a Force Applier.

Newtonian forces are kept hidden away behind the modesty curtain of "target speeds", "strengths", and "densities". The Newtonian force that a mover or a connector applies may be a function of those values, but the function cannot be reverse engineered because density, which is exposed to the logic network, isn't a real input to the function. The real input in place of density is mass, which is exposed to the player only, and not to the logic network.

So if I want to tell a gadget that the force it applies is 100N, I'm out of luck - it can't be done.

It would be useful if gadgets that apply forces to objects had an alternative set of tweaks in which the Newtonian force that they apply can be specified directly.

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  SwarmHammer

  • 12 de setembro de 2021 19:33

  I would see it as a button in physics gadgets to either make it newtonian or velocity based. I agree.

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  muppetry123

  • 17 de setembro de 2021 08:15

  I totally agree, from an education point of view this could be really useful if you wanted to teach mechanics/Newton’s laws in dreams itself

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