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The release of SimCity 5 sparked my interest in a new Railroad Tycoon game. Although Electronic Arts seems to have failed to build a SimCity game that works like I want it to work, their failure was mostly in releasing a game that could then not be played….
Continue readingThe code was fairly simple to write and I had a few minutes to spare today while running some long tests on other code. The video shows a few variations of the multiple slider mechanisms. The sliding connectors must have the exact same sliding radius for these to…
Continue readingLink That Slides on Curve I am attempting to make a link slide on a curve. When I started writing the code to handle this, I thought that maybe there is a better way. There must be a way to write the simulation code so that there are…
Continue readingWhile testing the sliding link feature to make sure that I had not missed something when programming the curved path handling, I have been making interesting mechanisms. Although some configurations are still not handled in the code, things like this work fine. Interesting Mechanism Video
Continue readingA typo in my post a moment ago made me wonder if I should just add a letter to the word “linkage” and use that as the new name of the program. “Linkjage” has a certain ring to it. Oscillating input is something that I have thought about…
Continue readingI moved the pink entry to a later position in the color table. Linkage should now have pink links only after there are more than 15 or 20 links in the mechanism. I started to notice that all of the images that I was posting were a bit…
Continue readingCurved Sliding Connector Paths are working! There is a type of configuration that is not handled by the simulator but the simpler situations are now handled. Valid Sliding Connector Curved Paths Invalid Curved Paths I am planning on improving the simulator so that it can handle…
Continue readingI would just like to thank you guys for using the Linkage program. The feedback I’ve gotten has been great and being able to provide features that people actually want is a very satisfying software development experience. When I first added the sliding connector feature, I wasn’t aware…
Continue readingThis video shows how a link may look when it represents just the curved slider path and nothing else. I may also implement this for links with more than two connectors although it will be harder to make solid links look this good. Link as a Curved Path
Continue readingI have not gotten to the more complicated sliding connector situations and have only dealt with the simple cases so far. The simple cases like the one in the image below was not too difficult to implement. Curved Slider Path The mechanism in the picture above has a…
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