How many Frame objects can Roblox handle?

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#1

Hey!

I am trying to make a game based on The Powder Toy, which canvas is 612x384, or 235008 frames.

Of course The Powder Toy does not use Roblox’s engine, but I am wondering if that many frames is possible to not only make, but edit every frame.

#2

Roblox doesn’t have a defined limitation from my knowledge, but I do know it’d be relying completely on the client. So a more important question would be can the average client handle 235k frames

#3

The only detail to the Frames is an RGB colour to represent the particle on it.

Is there a better way to represent quater of a million RGB values being displayed on screen.

#4

I can’t think of a better way to be perfectly honest, with roblox’s engine it would be hard to simultaneously update 235k objects at once even if it’s just their color. Not a small task for the client to handle if you ask me.

#5

updating just pixels that have a particle assigned to them and play the particle physics may work better

#6

Yeah honestly, storing every pixel in a table and when you update the pixels checking the table for ones that changed could be the best option for this scale of project

#7

Not in a table.

I store it in a string where each number is a bitpacked result of 4 integers between 0 and 255, where each particle has it’s own integer assigned to it. Which may be a bit faster than a table.

I also do the simulation process not by reading the screen, but by going through the string and proccesing it.

#8

Keep in mind roblox strings can only be 200k characters long

#9

and what is the limit for tables? Since I would be storing and proccesing 58752 numbers,

#10

I haven’t come across a limit for tables, they are only limited in DataStores from my knowledge

you could store the table in rows with shorter strings with the method you mentioned

#11

I do not have a problem with storing or proccesing, but with the frames and how to display them.

I am certain there is some trick to display multiple RGB values on a single frame.

#12

I would assume so, I’d look into processes to handle large numbers of objects if I were you, there are probably some cheeky ways of handling these types of situations

#13

I mean you could try lossless compression? But you’ll have to create your own algorithm to find the patterns. Even then, the amount of data would still be significant.