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Re: CF: Sunlight, Grass and Solar Engineering



James Cameron on  wrote...
| Anthony Thyssen wrote:
| > Don't blame me, you are welcome to work on the arch images!!!
| > Becides I can't see anything wrong, other than some of the ship
| > images seem to be on their sides!!!
| 
| Oh dear, I wasn't sufficiently clear.  You are the second person to
| assume that I meant the images themselves.  I didn't; I meant the
| positioning, which _is_ up to the map designer.
| 
| Inside a city wall, nobody would want to live in a house that gets no
| sun because of the wall being right next to it.
| 
| In northern hemisphere, with the winter sun from the south, the southern
| city wall would have a street next to it rather than buildings.  You
| would not find grass growing immediately north of a wall.
| 
| Just a touch of realism.
| I'm into solar passive design, it's been done for centuries.
| 
Well considering the sun never sets on planet crossfire, you could say
the planet is tidal locked. :-)  Of course scientifically Any planet
tidal locked with its sun would generally have all its atmosphere 
is solid ice on the far side, so that wouldn't work either.

Lets just say the uper atmoshere is misty and direct sunlight (only
difused light) ever reachs ground.

Hmmm... Lets just say it is all a bit of a mistery and leave it at that!

Who says the grass of this planet needs sunlight anyway!!! :-)

Also as all the images are slanted who says you are looking down from a
`sun' point of view, IE: all that dead grass is behind the visible walls
and buildings.

And lastly  --- Its a game, Who cares, get a life (see sig) ;-)

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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