Sorry for the lack of word, I moved to China and it’s all a bit exciting. More updates to Opticks-
* Additive colours – beams and lasers whose paths overlap now add to one another, so that the resulting colours are as they should be.
* Limited to Flash Player 10 (necessary for performance and loading & saving)
* Loading and saving to file – I will attach some level files soon!
* Lenses! – This is a little tricky. Use the rotate tool to orient the lens into place, and the distance from the lens will give you the focal length (negative or positive). It’s a little buggy with beams, but seems to work perfectly with lasers so far.
With all of that, I give you lenses:
Things on the to-do list:
* Integrate a proper panelling system, so that panels, tooltips, instructions, level load/save dialogs etc. can be managed reasonably. Is the Flex stuff the right way to do it? I’m not sure.
* Create a way to alter the colour of lenses / beams / mirrors etc. This will come when the paneling system is sorted out.
From here, I’ll probably be returning to more on what to actually do with something like this re: education and games. I hope the discussion will be interesting!