”Making a falling sand simulator”

[Sandman]

This is not built in B4X, but I still thought it might be interesting for the forum. It explains principles quite well.

Falling Sand

Making a falling sand simulator

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[monki]

[B4X] [BitmapCreator] Cross platform Falling Sand game

The main challenge here is the performance. All particles are updated if needed and redrawn every cycle. The Particles array stores the state of all "game pixels". A value of 0 means that the pixel is empty. Other values mean that there is a particle on that pixel. Sand particles move down or...

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[Erel]

This was a great example. It was one of the steps towards the (almost) full cross platform projects that we now have.

 

[Sandman]

[B4X] [BitmapCreator] Cross platform Falling Sand game

The main challenge here is the performance. All particles are updated if needed and redrawn every cycle. The Particles array stores the state of all "game pixels". A value of 0 means that the pixel is empty. Other values mean that there is a particle on that pixel. Sand particles move down or...

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Awesome, I forgot that example!

 

[cklester]

This was a great example. It was one of the steps towards the (almost) full cross platform projects that we now have.

I can't wait for the B4X Pages conversion! ?

 

[aeric]

I can't wait for the B4X Pages conversion! ?

Should be not difficult. Why wait? You can do it in no time.

 

[aeric]

Here is the B4XPages conversion.

[B4XPages] [BitmapCreator] Cross platform Falling Sand game

Based on the original example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-bitmapcreator-cross-platform-falling-sand-game.94276/ This is just a conversion from individual platform into B4XPages. I also uploaded to my github.

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