Powder Game 2 Physics

[blitzen]

Hi, this will be awesome.

I'm going to test and compare the physics in Powder Game 2 with the old physics in Powder Game 1.


List of things to try:

- Find gravity
- Water/Oil dynamics
- Air Friction

And here is a superball test I made:



(All falling Superballs fell from the same height, and landed at the exact same time on different materials)

Basically Powder/Seed/Gunpowder/Clone has the most friction, and Block has the least, if any. It was interesting to see that Fireworks and C-4 had the same friction! This actually tests energy absorption. It really doesn't make sense though, I think, because the energy is not being dissipated in any way. I will test this in Powder Game 1 later to see if there are similarities.


I just ran some tests and found gravity is around -23.4 pixels/second. If it is meant to be the same as Earth's gravity, ~2.4 pixels equals 1 meter. Which would mean an average person would be about 5 pixels high, which means the Powder Game box is actually actually over 2,000 feet high!!!

[mdog95]

Holy crap. A new member that actually knows what he's talking about.

[Qwerty]

Hmm, I didn't know energy absorption was different on different elements. I'm just assuming that the tests aren't run on Earth for the sake of sanity and comparison of player size.

[thisisblitzen]

May 1, 2012 20:09:56 GMT mdog95 said:

Holy crap. A new member that actually knows what he's talking about.

ha well this is actually linkzcap.

Sorry I haven't updated this but it's summer and I turned off my Physics brain temporarily..

[Qwerty]

Hm, this must mean that players are absolutely gigantic.

[~Memzak~]

Whoa linkzcap! Long time no see...

Time to take the tests to PG1...

[ganondorfchampin]

I think we should be assuming that PG uses actual physics.

[clockwork]

cool tests, although I think PG does not use literal real world physics

[Qwerty]

Naturally. It's why we're comparing it to its own type of physics.