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Dec 5, 1998, 9:26pm

I wish COF would implement day and night. Or at least a possibility for
world-owners to switch it on.
And I don't necessarily want it to be a *24*-hour cyclus. Maybe that should
be left a choice for the world-owner.
Like (after Rolu's idea) 32 hours; that's much cooler.
Cuz then, if you'd visit AW every night at the same time (RL), then you'd
see a different stage everyday. (Night, noon, dawn, etc.)

We don't have to copy RL to AW. So why take 24hour-cyclus if something else
is cooler or more logical.
I mean let's face it.. What the heck is 24 supposed to be? 104 devided by 4
and then reduced by the square-root of the difference between 39 and 37...
;-)
Why not take 25 or 32 or hundred.

Dec 5, 1998, 10:28pm

There are bots you can download that will do this for you- it's much more
versatile than anything built into AW could be. I know Donald Dahlman has a
sophisticated one; I'm not sure if he's distributing it yet, though. You may
also want to do a search in the SDK group on this- chances are, whoever else
wrote one would have mentioned it there.

Steve Fehr

[View Quote] > I wish COF would implement day and night. Or at least a possibility for
> world-owners to switch it on.
> And I don't necessarily want it to be a *24*-hour cyclus. Maybe that should
> be left a choice for the world-owner.
> Like (after Rolu's idea) 32 hours; that's much cooler.
> Cuz then, if you'd visit AW every night at the same time (RL), then you'd
> see a different stage everyday. (Night, noon, dawn, etc.)
>
> We don't have to copy RL to AW. So why take 24hour-cyclus if something else
> is cooler or more logical.
> I mean let's face it.. What the heck is 24 supposed to be? 104 devided by 4
> and then reduced by the square-root of the difference between 39 and 37...
> ;-)
> Why not take 25 or 32 or hundred.

Dec 5, 1998, 10:31pm

A simple calculation shows that

104/4 = 26;
sqrt(39-37) = sqrt(2)

However, 26-sqrt(2) != 24

I know your spelling sucks, but I hoped your math would be better ;-)

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Dec 6, 1998, 1:28am

I don't like the look of the objects at night...Puts me off building and makes
me want to get some sleep!

[View Quote] > I wish COF would implement day and night. Or at least a possibility for
> world-owners to switch it on.
> And I don't necessarily want it to be a *24*-hour cyclus. Maybe that should
> be left a choice for the world-owner.
> Like (after Rolu's idea) 32 hours; that's much cooler.
> Cuz then, if you'd visit AW every night at the same time (RL), then you'd
> see a different stage everyday. (Night, noon, dawn, etc.)
>
> We don't have to copy RL to AW. So why take 24hour-cyclus if something else
> is cooler or more logical.
> I mean let's face it.. What the heck is 24 supposed to be? 104 devided by 4
> and then reduced by the square-root of the difference between 39 and 37...
> ;-)
> Why not take 25 or 32 or hundred.

Dec 6, 1998, 1:35am

Actually, I believe 24 was chosen because, like 360, it can be evenly split many
different ways. Which was important because the ancients didn't have
calculators and floating points- they had to do all the math in their heads and
on stone tablets :-) Who's the guy in here with that useless factoids book?
hehe

[View Quote] > A simple calculation shows that
>
> 104/4 = 26;
> sqrt(39-37) = sqrt(2)
>
> However, 26-sqrt(2) != 24
>
> I know your spelling sucks, but I hoped your math would be better ;-)
>
> --
>
> [ Fluxen Dean-Christian Strik ]
> [ ICQ: 11760568 ISG RhinoSoft ]
> [ fluxen at bigfoot.com dean2 at bigfoot.com ]
>
> The nice thing of standards is that there are so many to choose from.
> -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
>
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Dec 6, 1998, 12:05pm

Yes, and when using 24 they could count on their hands, feet, eyes and ears.
25 was possible, too, by using a nose. But since they used their nose for
smelling the time on their feet, they chose 24.

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Dec 6, 1998, 12:05pm

That's just fake. The objects look the same at night.

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Dec 6, 1998, 4:00pm

It's just a effect the backdrop creates for instance I have a dark lunar
backdrop in my world but when I change it to lets say rus_day it gets a lot
brighter and feels cheerier

[View Quote] > That's just fake. The objects look the same at night.
>
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Dec 6, 1998, 4:41pm

[View Quote] No kidding ;-)

But the textures don't change.
You only get that idea.


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Dec 6, 1998, 6:35pm

[View Quote] > That's just fake. The objects look the same at night.
>

Don't look the same at night to me, fake or not.

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Dec 7, 1998, 12:15am

mmm... I ahve all the objects iny my world darkened sto surafce .4 .2 0 can get
very gloomy there and the backdrop than adds into the effect, but when I change
toa nicer day backdrop it feels more hppy :)

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