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EricL:
Dang.  I think it needs to be an executable, lile a zip file, for an http URL to work and you need permissions to get to the FTP share via FTP...  And the Attach file option seems to have gone missing in this topic...  Let me see if I can figure out why the zip is getting corrupted...

Okay, I just uploaded a zipped version again and this time it appears to unzip okay....

Elite:
It works! Thanks Eric  

And the collision detection is working brilliantly. Great job  

EricL:

--- Quote from: Elite ---It works! Thanks Eric  

And the collision detection is working brilliantly. Great job  
--- End quote ---
Thanks.  I now have more empathy for women in the delivery room...

Viruses are still on my list to dig into for the next version and I need to look into .tielen1-4 and .tieang1-4, but please let me know if you find any other things that need attention.

PurpleYouko:
Eric

Please bear in mind that when I designed the tielen1-4 and tiang1-4 controls, we only had a maximum of 4 ties available.

The number of these commands needs to be the same as the number of avaliable ties in whichever version you release.

Additionally there was always one problem that I had with these things.
When ties are made, the internal tie array fills up from the bottom so the first tie made can be addressed by tielen1 and so on. The problem I encountered is what happens when you have four ties then tie number 2 gets deleted for some reason?
There isn't any way to really know which slot you are filling up when you make a new one. We might need to address that issue in some way but I am not quite sure how.

This only really becomes an issue when designing complex MB structures but as long as we want DB to be a mixture of design (for some) and evolution (for others) then we need to think this through quite a bit and maybe even come up with a completely new system.

The requirements are
* We need to be able to directly address a given tie with the absolute minimum of commands (no settie or tienum stuff)
* we need to be able to adjust or set multiple ties in a single cycle. Not possible with the current tienum system unless we change it in such a way as to make the DNA sequential rather than pseudo simultaineous.Any thoughts on the issues?

Elite:
I believe Nums has detailed a new system here - New Tie Paradigm

Setting ties is done by commands rather than sysvars so multiple ties can be manipulated each cycle, and ties can be set by tie phase or by tie port

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As for what could be done in 2.4, I've got an idea:
*.tiepres1-4
(or however many ties that there can be at one time)

Only problem is it doesn't allow the manipulation of multiple ties per cycle, but it's a start.

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