Temperature Modes

  • jklujm
    1st Dec 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    Thanks to Powder Toy, I've gotten used to Celsius. I live in the United States, so Fahrenheit is what I'm used to. This may annoy people more than it bothered me, so could we have an option that allows us to change the temperature system used on the screen? It shouldn't be too hard to code and I don't see any harm in doing it. The modes should be Celsius (default), Fahrenheit, and Kelvin.

  • jacob1
    1st Dec 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    I have this in my mod, it's part of the customizable HUD's. I want to get it into the official version sometime too maybe. It is nice to have, but I use C still. I used to have both C and F display in earlier versions, but once I made them customizable I made only C by default.
  • jklujm
    1st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    What about Kelvin? It is only K=C-273.

  • Jallibad
    1st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @jklujm (View Post)

     it actually wouldn't even need to do the math for that, because TPT is already in Kelvin, it just displays Celsius.

  • jacob1
    1st Dec 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    @jklujm (View Post)
    I had both C and K by default in the HUD before I added customization, but I added a K option later with the HUD options. Customizable HUD's would have the option for all or any of them (and lots of other stuff)
  • jklujm
    1st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    Excuse me, K=C+273, not -. Jallibad, I know Kelvin is incremented the same way Celsius is, but it is offset forwards by 273.

  • Jallibad
    1st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @jklujm (View Post)

     I meant that in the game's code it is in Kelvin.  It displays the temperature +273 in the HUD.  This avoids negative numbers in the code.  Also, you were right the first time, K=C-273...

  • billion57
    2nd Dec 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    Kelvin, Rankine (bit obscure?), Fahrenheit should be added in the options menu.