Floating Sandbox How-To: Create an Electrical Layer, Part V

This is the fifth and last part of a multi-part post explaining how to build electrical layers in ships for Floating Sandbox. In the first four posts of this series we’ve learnt how to create an electrical layer, how to add instanced elements to it, how to place engines in a ship, and how the other electrical […]

Floating Sandbox How-To: Create an Electrical Layer, Part IV

This is the fourth part of a multi-part post explaining how to build electrical layers in ships for Floating Sandbox. Note: this tutorial has been updated on 09/06/2020 to cover the new electricals materials that have been added to Floating Sandbox in version 1.15. In the first three posts of this series we’ve learnt how […]

Floating Sandbox How-To: Create an Electrical Layer, Part III

This is the third part of a multi-part post explaining how to build electrical layers in ships for Floating Sandbox. Note: this tutorial has been updated on 09/06/2020 to cover the new electricals materials that have been added to Floating Sandbox in version 1.15. In the first two posts of this series we’ve learnt how […]

Floating Sandbox How-To: Create an Electrical Layer, Part II

This is the second part of a multi-part post explaining how to build electrical layers in ships for Floating Sandbox. In the previous post we have seen how to create a very simple, non-interactive circuit on our ship. Just to recap, here is the structural image for that ship: …while here’s the electrical image providing […]

Floating Sandbox How-To: Create an Electrical Layer

This is the first part of a multi-part post explaining how to build electrical layers in ships for Floating Sandbox. Note: this tutorial has been updated on 09/06/2020 to cover the new electricals materials that have been added to Floating Sandbox in version 1.15. One of the major new features introduced with Floating Sandbox 1.14 […]

Controlling Heat and Fire in Floating Sandbox 1.12

Floating Sandbox 1.12 – aka The Fire and Heat update or Trial by Fire – is being released today on GameJolt.com. This new version of the physics simulator introduces thermodynamics, giving players the ability to heat or cool parts of the ships until materials reach their burning and melting points. Particles transfer heat between each other and […]

1D Simulation of Ocean Waves

The upcoming 1.11 release of Floating Sandbox sports a completely redesigned wave sub-system. The previous wave simulation was a simple superimposition of two sine waves, for which the user could control height and speed. The visual results were not that bad with default settings: When increasing wave height, though, the “fake” nature of the waves […]

Euler Fights with Square Drag

While working on Floating Sandbox 1.10.0 I stumbled upon an issue that I totally didn’t see coming. A user (Dkuz The Fox, thank you) reported that when placing an anti-matter bomb on the tail of the Submarine 3000, the submarine would at times disappear. And even more intriguing was the fact that this would only […]

A Physics Puzzle

While working on Floating Sandbox 1.8 I realized I’d gone through 8 versions without noticing a subtle bug in the buoyancy simulation. Fixing the bug challenged my common sense on how things really sink underwater, and after bringing up the discussion at lunch with some of my colleagues, I realized it was not only my […]

Momentum-Based Simulation of Water Flooding 2D Spaces

For the 1.5.0 release of Floating Sandbox I had decided to work on rethinking the simulation of water entering physical bodies through a hole in the hull. The 1.4.0 simulation was based on simple Newtonian-like mechanics and consisted of 3 steps: Water Intake: each point adjacent to a hole in the hull would take a quantity […]