2024-03-27 Ringworld Seasons, Potted Plants, Atmosphere Density, Survey Info

[Haxus]

Seasons change uniformly throughout the year around the ringworld. This works for a game but it would be murder on migratory birds.

To create true north south seasons like on a planet, I believe the shadow panels would have to be a solid band around the sun with round holes instead of gaps. The holes would have to be able to move up and down throughout the year cycle. All of them would move up and down in unison so the same latitudes would be in the same season around the ringworld.

I rejected this idea for two reasons. First the lighting code in the shader was going to kill me, and maybe a few GPUs. Second I thought the final result would look ugly.

[Celarious]

I see there was an update pushed an hour ago, did anything big change?

[Haxus]

I fixed a minor error in a new math function. I didn’t want to take the chance that it would cause a problem.

I also added Orbital Period to the survey report for rings.

[Grecanis]

axialTilt may have broken the .xml

https://hazeron.com/mybb/showthread.php?...6#pid11736

[AnrDaemon]

Seasons change uniformly throughout the year around the ringworld. This works for a game but it would be murder on migratory birds.

There's an easier solution to this. Without anything moving. Just let the panels rotate around the sun by elliptical orbit which itself also rotating. Then you will have natural seasons change through the ringworld.
Generally something like this http://project.rootdir.org/gallery/Hazer...pboard.png