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World Climate Lab 0.2.0: The Systems View Update

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New

  • New Setup screen: your whole star system at the centre, with every setting in labelled windows. Classic setup is still there.

  • Set up new simulation: build a world step by step, from its star to the rest of its system.

  • System View: explore every star, planet, moon and belt, with close-ups of any world.

  • Saved worlds: one file keeps the terrain, star system and settled climate, so it opens without settling again.

  • Keep the climate running: a settled world's weather and seasons carry on. Turn it on in Settings.

  • Place Report: click anywhere for that place's temperature, rain, cloud, humidity and wind through the orbit, then export the picture and a table.

  • Sea Productivity: see how much life the sea can grow, with reefs in sunlit shallows.

  • Sea Salinity: see where seas run salty or fresh, from a planet's own chemistry.

  • Dust: see where wind lifts desert dust and where it settles.

  • Sea floor in Topography: measured depths run from black through navy to pale blue, in the Topography Creator too.

  • Climate data export: every layer, one at a time or all together, at any export resolution.

  • Satellite moons: moons and neighbouring worlds now show around the globe at their true size.

  • Solar System detail: real moons and rings, measured height maps and proper icy worlds.

  • Rename any star, planet, moon, belt or large asteroid.

  • Save a setup with its whole star system.

  • Set the water level to two decimals of a per cent.

Changed

  • Clouds: thin veils, bright storms, ragged edges and high cirrus, with their own shapes on locked and slow worlds.

  • Air on the globe: now as thin as it really is, and unique to each world.

  • New soundtrack: twelve calm ambient tracks at an even volume.

  • One climate model: every world now settles the same way, and old Detailed saves still open.

  • Reset: now asks first, so one click can't lose a settled climate.

  • Mars and the Moon: presets now have no sea, with Water-seeded versions still available.

  • Vegetation: rebuilt, so plant cover differs slightly.

  • Setup and presets load faster.

  • Messages now explain the wait while the climate starts up and when Satellite first opens.

Fixed

  • Settled climates no longer slowly lose heat, and Earth's climate zones match a little better.

  • The Pressure layer now shows true sea-level pressure in every view, from thin Mars to thick Venus.

  • Dew Point no longer reads warmer than the air.

  • Worlds without open water now start dry, and Mars settles much closer to its real temperature.

  • Clouds no longer vanish and return during a settle, or form rings and streaks.

  • On the globe, the readout now names the right climate zone.

  • Quitting during rivers, tides or the sea and dust layers no longer crashes.

  • Thin air's pressure and oxygen now show as short numbers.

  • More English text is now translated, and saved worlds select the right gas in any language.

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