csElectricFieldSimulator

Small application I made to practice some things I learned in physics class!
Made with Raylib-CsLo

Controls

With the new GUI added in 1.3.0, the controls are a bit different!

Tools

• This is the Tools button.
  Click on it to reveal/hide all of the tools you can use!

• This is the Add button.
  Two more will appear after you click on it. The plus button lets you spawn positive charges with a left-click and negative charges with a right-click. The minus button does the opposite.
  If you click on a charge while in add mode, you can drag it around!

• This is the Erase button.
  Another button will appear after you click on this one, called "Clear." You can use it to clear your work area of all charges.
  If you don’t want to clear everything, you can click on individual charges to remove them.

• This is the Edit Charge button.
  Another button will appear after you click on this one, called "Set 0". Once you click on it, any charge you click on will be turned into a neutral one. To disable it, click on the Edit Charge button again.
  To edit a charge, hover your mouse over one, and hold left-click. Moving your mouse up will add to the charge, and moving it down will subtract.

• This is the Drag Move button.
  As the name suggests, this button allows you to drag and move around your work area! This makes it a bit more intuitive than before, so it should be easier to use.

• This is the Zoom button.
  Similarly to the Edit Charge button, you can hold left-click anywhere that is not on a UI element, and move your mouse left and right.
  Moving to the right makes you zoom out, and moving to the left makes you zoom in!

Settings

This is the Settings button.
Click on it to reveal the settings (wow).

The LoD box is a rectangle drawn around all of the charges that helps boost performance by decreasing the quality outside of it.

Here’s a list of all of them and what they control:

• Quality: This value controls the quality inside of the LoD box.
• LoD Quality: This value controls the quality outside of the LoD box.
• Probe Radius: This value controls the radius at which probes start out around each positive charge.
• Probes Per Charge: This value controls the number of probes that spawn around each positive charge.
• UI Scale: This value is used to make the UI bigger if your display requires it.
• Field Line Thickness: This value changes how wide/thick the field lines are, if needed. (Note: The field lines may appear to tear at widths larger than 10 due to rendering limitations.)
• Show Field Direction: This is a dropdown menu with three options; Static, Animated, and None.
  • Static shows a static visualization of the direction of the field, with 10 arrows on each field line.
  • Animated shows an animated visualization of the direction of the field, moving from positive charges to negative ones.
  • None shows no visualization.

Installation

Make sure you have the .NET 6 Runtime installed!

1. Go to the latest release on the releases page, and download the file corresponding to your operating system.
2. Extract the contents of the .zip into a folder.
3. Run the csElectricFieldSimulator executable.

Building

1. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/Nasko-5/csElectricFieldSimulator.
2. Navigate to the resulting folder.
3. Run the appropriate command for your operating system:
   • Windows: dotnet publish -r win-x64 -o ./win-x64
   • Linux: dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -o ./linux-x64
   • macOS: dotnet publish -r osx-arm64 -o ./osx-arm64
4. The build files will be created in a folder named after the platform you specified (e.g., win-x64, linux-x64, osx-arm64).

Notes

You may need the .NET SDK to build the project. If you encounter any issues, feel free to open an issue on GitHub, and I’ll work on a fix!

There is a bug that makes the program freeze if you try to exit the program with the close button on your OS, and i am going to work out a fix for this sooner or later!
but i dont think it's serious enough to delay this release.
For now, exit the program by either closing the accompanying command prompt, or by pressing Esc while focused on the window.