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[MysticSi]

Elec - Educational Electronics Game

Description A pseudo/simplified electronics simulator, allowing you to build logic circuits out of transistor like components. Inspired by

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elec_v0.4.zip
elec_v0.3.rar
elec_v0.2.rar (NOTE: Crashes when you delete a component)
elec_v0.1.rar


How to play



Use the toolbar to drag and drop components

Power generates an electric output,
Control converts an electric signal into a control signal,
Node outputs its input unless a control signal is present,
LED lights up when powered, use control signal to turn blue,
Delay delays signal for 5 stepps

click to push button / select
ctrl + click to move a component/ select multiple
right click & drag create a wire between two components

WASD pan camera
R,F zoom in/out
G reset zoom

+- NUMPAD increase/decrease cycles
N reset cycles

Delete Delete selected components/wires
V Toggle wire display

loading & saving done automaticly on start/exit.

[Melly]

I know plenty of people here that'll love to see that concept realized.

[J. R. Hill]

I'm one of them.

[miconazole]

I agree, interesting premise! Sounds like it might be an electronics version of Manufactoria

[MysticSi]

Got a demo version working...





Power generates an electric output,
control converts an electric signal into a control signal,
and node outputs its input unless a control signal is present.

click to push button
ctrl + click to move a component
right click & drag create a wire between two components

you can't currently delete components or wires, but ill get around to that soon...

elec_v0.1.rar

[ThetaGames]

Nice ideas!  I think I made a square-wave generator:

[MysticSi]

actualy Theta you've unwittingly exposed a bug in my code, as the first part of your cricut should just generate a pulse the same as my pulse gate above, but because you had two control inputs this caused the electric output to oscillate between negative and positive.

I've now capped the value of the control signal to 1 to prevent negatives. (for the next release)

you can make an oscillator like this tho...



I also intend to prevent double wiring (where you have two arrows together)

oh yea I did take some inspiration from wireworld, I wanted something that didn't require such precise timing for the logic to work.

[ThetaGames]

you can make an oscillator like this tho...

Ooooh, and this one oscillates at a lower frequency (1/3 of your oscillator, I think):

[MysticSi]

New in this version...

-LEDs (use control signal to change to blue),

-Delay component (delays for 5 steps),

-press 'V' to toggle view mode,

-a toolbar (drag and drop) to add unlimited components,

-you can now select and delete components and wires, (select a wire by clicking on its arrow)

-change a wires direction with right click.

elec_v0.2.rar

[ThetaGames]

Nice additions.  I noticed that sometimes when I tried to delete something, the game would crash.

[oyog]

Nice additions.  I noticed that sometimes when I tried to delete something, the game would crash.

Same thing happened to me.

[MysticSi]

oops, I cant believe I missed that bug it even happens on my computer. I was deleting the element in the wrong place and creating an invalid reference.

Try this...

elec_v0.3.rar

[Melly]

That's a pretty interesting thing you got there, though I'm really unsure of how to work it. You could add some of your circuit examples into the game itself so people can play around with them. It seems like it could be a fun and educational time waster for those that are inclined.

[DrOctapu]

Very neat to mess with, maybe a windowed mode though?

[MysticSi]

damn a virus has messed up my windows install, and i cant find the authentication key to reinstall it. I guess i'll have to quickly learn to proggram in linux, and port my app to it.

[MysticSi]

never-mind i got windows working again, Linux was proving to hard to get the opengl library installed.

I've added saving (automatic upon start/exit), there are now examples when you first start, camera panning and zooming (WASD R,F), inverse control component (makes things a little simpler) and also the ability to increase or decrease the cycles per frame (+- numpad) putting it into slow-motion helps to see what's going on.

I did add windowed mode (alt+return), but the mouse position is not currently calculated corectly.

elec_v0.4.zip

Here's something more elaborate i made, unfortunately before i implemented saving...