Ctype shenanigans
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So, I dont even know if this would be possible, but, I would like to know how to make a function that would allow powders to be disolved in water (Water ctype changing for saltwater not saltwater being its own thing).
The same could work for metals and acid, hopefully. Acid disolves Metal, Acid with metal ctype, when heated metal comes out of solution as metal powder, BMTL and BRMT.
If anyone could help, it would be much appreciated. This has been mind bogglingly difficult for me to do so far.
EDIT: Il'd also like the function for when BRMT melts the solid formed when cooled is BMTL, if anyone has that, that would be cool too.
EDIT 2: I found out how to do the BRMT melting and cooling into BMTL.
Edited 2 times by Ketemin. Last: 5th Jun 2019 -
Extending the behaviour of built-in elements is generally difficult through Lua, and changing them completely is mostly impossible. You could get WATR to dissolve powders which it doesn't already dissolve, but the reactions with the ones it does (SALT is the only one coming to mind right now) would probably be impossible to rig.
ACID dissolves stuff based on its Hardness property and loses some of its potency every time it dissolves a particle. This means that it's not always obvious what's "dissolved" in an ACID particle, so I'm not even sure how to approach this. Regardless, the same things apply as above.
Edited once by LBPHacker. Last: 5th Jun 2019 -
I'm very new to Lua, so I may be off, but try the element I coded as a proof of concept.
Make sure the MTWT element is "loaded", and then simply use standard WATR element to test diluting in it.
You can see different elements mixed in water are diluted, and water gets a corresponding ctype, with a different color to better see it. You could code anything after this. Is this what you wanted?
elem.allocate("MARKHUSS", "MTWT")
elem.element(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, elem.element(elem.DEFAULT_PT_DMND))
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Name", "MTWT")
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Description", "markHuss test water for ctype shenanigans")
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Colour", 0x2030d0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "MenuVisible", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "MenuSection", SC_SPECIAL)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Advection", 0.6)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "AirDrag", 0.01)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "AirLoss", 0.98)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Loss", 0.95)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Collision", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Gravity", 0.1)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Diffusion", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HotAir", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Explosive", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Flammable", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Hardness", 20)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Meltable", 0)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Weight", 30)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HeatConduct", 29)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Temperature", 293.15)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Falldown", 2)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "State", elem.ST_LIQUID)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Properties", elem.TYPE_LIQUID)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "LowPressure", IPL)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "LowPressureTransition", NT)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HighPressure", IPH)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HighPressureTransition", NT)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "LowTemperature", ITL)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "LowTemperatureTransition", NT)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HighTemperature", ITH)
elem.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "HighTemperatureTransition", NT)
function MTWT_Update(i, x, y, ss, nt)
close=nt-ss
if close >= 4 then
b=sim.partID(x, y+1)
if b==nil then else
s_ct = sim.partProperty(b, sim.FIELD_TYPE)
if s_ct~= elements.DEFAULT_PT_WATR then
sim.partKill(x, y+1)
repl = sim.partCreate(-3, x, y+1, elements.DEFAULT_PT_WATR)
sim.partProperty(repl, sim.FIELD_CTYPE, s_ct)
colo= sim.decoColour(s_ct*2, (close*45), (s_ct*2 + close *20))
sim.partProperty(repl, sim.FIELD_DCOLOUR, sim.decoColour())
end
end
--print("close", close, "s_ct", s_ct, "repl", repl, "color", colo)
end
end
elements.property(elem.DEFAULT_PT_WATR, "Update", MTWT_Update, 1)
function MTWT_Graphics(i, colr, colg, colb)
return 1, 0x0000001, 255, colr, colg, colb, 0, 0, 0, 0
end
elements.property(elem.MARKHUSS_PT_MTWT, "Graphics", MTWT_Graphics)
Edited once by MarkHuss. Last: 9th Jun 2019 -
You talk about (non-existent) syntactic conventions in the other thread (and ignore advice), but you don't use locals (which is actually a convention). Nice :P
Here, have some correct Lua code. You should use pastebin next time too. Kudos for knowing about the second argument of the Update property.
Edit: Wow, I just noticed that the impossible pressure and temperature constants are not available in the Lua API. Will fix that later.
Edited 3 times by LBPHacker. Last: 9th Jun 2019 -
My goal here is OP request. My only concern is functioning code, I dont care about conventions as long as the code works.
And your "corrected" code does not work...
What is your intent here?
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keep me updated. curious where you are going with this
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Im making a realistic chemistry lua mod. So far I have a handful of metals and non-metals and basic reactions between them.
My goal is to do things I havent seen in other mods, for example metal alloying in a realistic way.
What I am currently working on is an aqueous solution for every compound, metal and what ever else dissolves. Ive also added alkali metals and their reactions. This is a massive pain in the ass to make but im slowly getting there. -
LBPHacker:
You talk about (non-existent) syntactic conventions in the other thread (and ignore advice), but you don't use locals (which is actually a convention). Nice :P
Here, have some correct Lua code. You should use pastebin next time too. Kudos for knowing about the second argument of the Update property.
Edit: Wow, I just noticed that the impossible pressure and temperature constants are not available in the Lua API. Will fix that later.
LBPHacker:
My intent was to fix your code so it doesn't look like oatmeal, which I've achieved.
Obviously my way is the best way https://pastebin.com/ai3w0d9M
