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Key: VWR-3640
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Normal Normal
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: At0m0 Beerbaum
Votes: 23
Watchers: 3
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Real Moon Phases

Created: 05/Dec/07 12:09 AM   Updated: Tuesday 12:22 PM
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Component/s: Graphics
Affects Version/s: 1.18.5.3, First Look: WindLight, 1.19.1.4, 1.23 Release Candidate, 1.23
Fix Version/s: None

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Basically, something I've seen in some other games, notably, bzflag. (http://www.bzflag.org) is realtime moon phases which goes by an internal almanac, it essentially shows the moon phase according to the user's system time.

would be an interesting effect considering SL is aiming to become more realistic.

also, you know how the moon's "face" changes in the sky relative to its position? that should be tacked in as well

One more thought, adding a feature in windlight, based on the user's timezone in their operating system's date and time, set the sun and moon's positions in the sky relative to the user's geographical location, if not, it just sets it to where it'd be for linden labs' time and location (san fran)

or just do it based on what linden labs' position on the earth, your call.



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Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 02:19 AM
Field Original Value New Value
Workflow jira [ 17497 ] jira-2007-12-21 [ 25126 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 02:30 AM
Workflow jira [ 25126 ] jira-2007-12-21 [ 25802 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 03:20 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-21 [ 25802 ] jira-2007-12-22 [ 32034 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 03:41 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-21 [ 32034 ] jira-2007-12-22 [ 34096 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 08:35 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22 [ 34096 ] jira-2007-12-22a [ 39231 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 08:59 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22 [ 39231 ] jira-2007-12-22a [ 40704 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 09:52 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22 [ 40704 ] jira-2007-12-22a [ 43186 ]
Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 10:14 PM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22 [ 43186 ] jira-2007-12-22a [ 44549 ]
McCabe Maxsted made changes - 22/Apr/08 04:15 PM
Link This issue is related to by VWR-3950 [ VWR-3950 ]
Sean Pirandello made changes - 22/Apr/08 04:52 PM
Affects Version/s 1.19.1.4 [ 10290 ]
McCabe Maxsted made changes - 24/Apr/08 01:06 AM
Link This issue is duplicated by VWR-4975 [ VWR-4975 ]
McCabe Maxsted made changes - 24/Apr/08 01:07 AM
Link This issue Relates to VWR-2234 [ VWR-2234 ]
Khyota Wulluf made changes - 01/Oct/08 09:12 PM
Link This issue is related to by VWR-9480 [ VWR-9480 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 11:02 AM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22a [ 44549 ] jira-2008-11-14 [ 62542 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 11:18 AM
Workflow jira-2007-12-22a [ 62542 ] jira-2008-11-14 [ 68333 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 04:34 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 68333 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 88295 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 04:51 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 88295 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 93604 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:01 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 93604 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 97347 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:11 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 97347 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 101280 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:29 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 101280 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 108449 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:51 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 108449 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 115446 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 06:05 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 115446 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 120963 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 06:27 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 120963 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 129275 ]
Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 06:45 PM
Workflow jira-2008-11-14 [ 129275 ] jira-2008-11-14a [ 135739 ]
oryx tempel made changes - 17/Nov/09 11:20 AM
Summary Real Moon phases for windlight/normal client Real Moon Phases
oryx tempel made changes - 17/Nov/09 11:21 AM
Affects Version/s 1.23 [ 10470 ]
Affects Version/s 1.23 Release Candidate [ 10433 ]