| Sun Apr 9 22:34:46 2023 by Coconutsales |
| This Climate sim website allows you to upload a heightmap (and then adjust water level to match your world however you wish) https://space.geometrian.com/calcs/climate-sim.php The heightmap doesn't even have to be cleansed of all the extra data points (seed, etc) which I find invaluable personally (if you saw my last post here) It gives a few VERY useful outputs! In this example I have a world generated from Torben's planet generator - equirectangular 2000x1000 along with its associated heightmap (generated using the Greyscale color scheme) World Map: https://i.imgur.com/j2vpZAP.png Height Map: https://i.imgur.com/9nLEG5I.png Ranked from personal usefulness you have: Temperature; https://i.imgur.com/B2urCX1.png Biomes; https://i.imgur.com/ws7Ol8I.png (estimated and not using the Koppen-Climate scale, but a good starting point) Water/land difference map; https://i.imgur.com/AFgIT3f.png and water vapor map; https://i.imgur.com/0CGpFAt.png |
| Tue Apr 11 09:43:12 2023 by Torben |
| Sounds interesting. How does the biome map compare to the one generated by the planet program? |
| Thu Apr 13 17:33:16 2023 by Coconutsales |
| Good question! Side-by-side zoomed in comparison: https://i.imgur.com/w9t3w6r.png Planet Generator Biomes: https://i.imgur.com/vYZbh7h.png Space Calc Biomes: https://i.imgur.com/6KWOa2X.png Interesting results - Where your generator has placed Temperate forests, it has placed tundra / ice. You tropical belt is pretty similar, however, in the higher regions where Planet Generator placed temperate forest, it placed boreal forest The humid warm regions seem to be relatively similar, but both models differ wildly when placing cold or temperate regions, especially near the poles. |
| Fri Apr 14 09:47:34 2023 by Torben |
| It could be that Space Calc interprets the latitudes differently. If it thinks the upper and lower parts are closer to the poles, that would explain a lot. |
