Algodoo Marble Race - Part 20 - Season 5

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Published on April 8, 2017 11:40:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnMAA8OKUs

Duration: 11:50

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It's Marble Race time!

► Stuff!
Here comes the return of the blue Sticky pad!
And also the advent of the Rocket pad, but who cares about that?

Anyways, just to get this out of the way, coding the rocket pad was a nightmare. One main problem with it I had was that I needed to attach marbles to the rocket so they don't fly out, but because Algodoo is weird, I needed to delete the marbles on collision and then respawn them. If I weren't to do that, the fixates wouldn't be able to spawn for some reason.
So this means that rockets don't work very well with textured marbles. Luckily material marbles are fine, they just lose their texture, not color. Special marbles, on the other hand, lose their texture and have no color because their color is based on the texture itself. So all you get is just a white marble with a white trail instead of an actual marble. Rainbow is worse off for she loses her 7 tracer trail.
There is also this weired bug where if the rocket touches the removal pad/laser, but the marble doesn't, the marble can't spawn a new rocket until it actually touches the pad/laser.

Also, this video was recorded on April Fools, so Algodoo's april fools message kept popping up. Good thing I set the UI to be invisible and really small!

► Music

"Rocket," "Stringed Disco," "Furious Freak," and "Shiny Tech II" by Kevin Macleod
Find them here: http://incompetech.com/
Find the artist here as well: http://incompetech.com/

► Program used
I use the program Algodoo by Algoryx, you can find it here: http://www.algodoo.com/


I apparently can't upload 4k thumbnails =(