How do I quickly set possibly tens of thousands of frames from data to UI?
I am working on a game similar to The Powder Toy where over 150 of particles that have their own properties.
There are around tens to thousands of pixels that can be assigned a particle to in the game. But am wondering on how I quickly change all those particles.
The simulation would update every frame. They way it works is a very long string like this:
'0 0 0 0 93 0 31 3 31 50 69 10 41'
Each Particle has it’s own number (between 0 and 255), that could then be used to fetch the properties of the particle.
To store the particles, I would just bitpack the data of 4 pixels into 1 number, which is why the particles are between 0 and 255.
Storage should be no issue as I got SimpleBit, a module made by myself that has functions for bitpacking.
And I got an idea of how to shift the Particles, so my only issue is displaying them.
Changing the RGB values of thousands of frames in a heartbeat is a heavy task, and I seriously doubt if it could be performmed by Roblox, and if it could, then it would be very slow.
The Powder Toy itself is partially or even fully writen in Lua, but they work on a far less limited game maker unlike Roblox Studio
In summary: How do I edit thousands of Frames in a heartbeat.
ive only been coding for a few moths (since last september) so i wouldnt listen to me if i were you lol