(04-16-2017, 12:29 AM)Permeable Ceiling Wrote: The presented configuration of same size donuts would have different lighting conditions, in the vein of 60%/80%/100%, at least theoretically.
No, they would all have 100%. (Remember the light rays are parallel; there is no occlusion here.)
EDIT: Just realized one thing that's probably causing some confusion... the light angle in design mode is not the "final" light angle, as deployed in orbit. Your colony is always built with the spin axis perfectly perpendicular to the light; a torus is always edge-on to the sun. But we found that when things were lit this way in design mode, it caused visual illusions that made it harder for people to perceive what they were doing.
The one exception, of course, is when you actually care about the lighting, in which case the current solution is deceptive. It's a trade-off.
Quote:Also… Green/Red lights on Docking Port? Wonder what that’s about.
That's to guide the incoming spaceships. Or at least, to give the passengers thereof something to focus on while the flight computers guide the incoming spaceships.

Joe Strout
Lead Developer, High Frontier