Sand3d - The 3D Falling Sand Game

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About Sand3d - top Sand3d is a 3d implementation of the 2d falling sand games. Which can be found mirrored at http://fallingsandgame.com. To my knownledge, this is the first and currently the only 3d implementation of a falling sand game. It is written by David Pascoe-Deslauriers (codemonkey "at" csiuo.com) in c++ using the FreeGLUT API. System Requirements Recommended : 2 GHz CPU /w 16MB Video Card The most current version is Sand3d 0.44 The latest discussion about Sand3d can be found on the fallingsandgame.com forum. Sand3d News - top July 8, 2007 - 0.45 Released for Windows! It's about time I updated this thing. Changes: Subtle Graphic enhancements Added GUI Saving and loading games Added GUI Added Removable boundaries March 11, 2007 - 0.44 Released for Windows and Linux with source It's been a while since the last update, so here's the most recent version. Changes: Major performance enhancements Added Pause button (space bar) Add custom backgrounds Febuary 19, 2007 - 0.42 Released for Windows, BSD and Linux with source Well here's a big one, something people have been asking for . . . EXPLOSIONS!!! I've also been working on mods, making the simulation run more efficiently and fixing up some of the code I didn't like, but unless you're looking at the code, you won't see a difference yet. Changes: Added EXPLOSIONS!!! Added Gunpowder! BOOM!! Added C4!! BOOM!! ADDED NAPALM!!! BOOM!!!! Added Frame Rate Counter Added Particle Counter Febuary 5, 2007 - 0.40 Released with source! Well I finally released the source like I've been promising . . . however broke the Linux version, so Linux and BSD binaries aren't included in this one. I'll be working on getting those up ASAP. Changes: Added new type, Generators. Added three new generators: Spout (makes water,) Well (makes oil), and Cow (makes methane) The '7' key cycles through generator types Added new hollow type: Torch Added new graphics mode which renders things differently. Sand gets rendered as spheres Solid objects, hollow shapes and generator get rendered as cubes Fire is fire ;) Gases are rendered as particle clouds Liquids are rendered as different particle clouds (I'm not happy with the way it looks and behaves, this will change later) January 30, 2007 - 0.40 Released Changes: Add gases: Methane; Lighter than air, Flammable Hydrogen Sulfide; Heavier than air, Flammable Carbon Dioxide; Heavier than air, puts out fires Nitrogen Dioxide; Same as air, stable Added new keyboard hot keys: F10 - Clears play area 1 : Select Eraser 2 : Cycle Through Solids (Sand, Fire) 3 : Cycle Through Liquids (Water, Oil) 4 : Cycle Through Gases (...) 5 : Cycle Through Hollow Floating types 6 : Cycle Through Solid Floating types January 26, 2007 - 0.36 Released Changes: Added Wall tool, like glass but opaque Added tons of new camera controls Holding CTRL disconnects the mouse from the pen Arrow Key, PageUp and PageDown control pen movement January 24, 2007 - Websites up I put this website together for sand3d. I"m currently working on making sand3d mod-able, allowing users to easily define custom sand type and beautifying the code to prepare it for release. Hopefully, I"ll have it all ready and release the source early next week. January 23, 2007 - Sand3d 0.35 Released! Changes: +/- change the pen size liquids act like liquid eraser (useful for building things out of glass) text (so you can know what sand you"ve selected) cursor stack (so you can see where things will fall) oil take longer to burn out (so you can make rivers of flowing fire) Controls - top Camera Control: Right Click Move Camera Mouse Scroll Zoom a Zoom In z Zoom Out F1 Top View F2 Default View F3 Rotate 90' Left F4 Rotate 90' Right Sand Controls: Left Click Add Sand l Add Sand p Cycle through types of sand SHIFT + mouse up and down Raise and lower pen + Make the pen bigger - Make the pen smaller Holding CTRL Stops mouse from moving the pen Arrow keys Move pen along the horizontal plane PageUp and PageDown Raise and lower pen 1 Select Eraser 2 Cycle Through Solids (Sand, Fire) 3 Cycle Through Liquids (Water, Oil) 4 Cycle Through Gases (...) 5 Cycle Through Hollow Floating types 6 Cycle Through Solid Floating types 7 Cycle Through Solid Generator types Game Controls: Space Pauses the Game w Toggle Boundaries h Toggle Menu F10 Clears the play area s Switch between sand rendered as cubes and sand renders as spheres q Quits Screenshots - top Downloads - top Sand3d - 0.45 - Windows Binaries Sand3d - 0.44 - Windows/Linux Binaries Sand3d - 0.44 - Full Source Sand3d - 0.42 - Windows/Linux/FreeBSD Binaries Sand3d - 0.42 - Full Source Sand3d - 0.40 - Windows Binaries Sand3d - 0.40 - Full Source Sand3d - 0.38 - Windows/Linux/FreeBSD Binaries Sand3d - 0.36 - Windows Binaries Sand3d - 0.35 - Windows Binaries