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Sunlight does not diffuse


Scrabac76
  • Branch: Live Branch Version: Windows Pending

Light from lamps will spread out after passing through a 1-tile wide opening, but sunlight just goes straight through like a laser.

 

sunlight will not spread after passing through the window: 5d66b1626db8e_1-Sunlight.thumb.jpg.390291bfaa657e904c06e17c4f5797ab.jpg

lamplight will spread after passing through the window:5d66b1671bc5b_2-SunlightLamp.thumb.jpg.9a3edcec76cdbcd26faefa12023132e6.jpg

 


Steps to Reproduce
Pass sunlight through a single tile



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It's not a bug but an intended feature.

 

In real life, the sun rays can be considered quite straight du to the distance with the Earth.

So it's normal that devs choose to set it the same way. ;) 

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9 hours ago, Gwido said:

It's not a bug but an intended feature.

 

In real life, the sun rays can be considered quite straight du to the distance with the Earth.

So it's normal that devs choose to set it the same way. ;) 

In a vacuum, sure. But light still scatters in an atmosphere, otherwise a skylight would have be the size of the entire room lol. But you probably are right about it being intentional, it occurred to me if sunlight were to diffuse using the current model people would be able to spam solar cells from a single beam of light... Still a shame we can't have natural skylights without tearing off the whole roof.

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