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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Torsten Rahn on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @06:17

Just to get this straight: The data that is placed on the server gets updated all the time (we are basically using the same data that XPlanet does which has realtime clouds as well). However right now Marble only fetches it once. So if you want an updated cloudcover you need to delete the cloud data that marble has fetched by hand. We'll add some mechanism that does this automatically later, so you'll be able to have real time clouds that update automatically for KDE 4.1

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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by random kde user. on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:15

Are the dark and lit regions also displayed correctly wrt. the seasons? In the screenshot it looks like both the north and south pole are lit at the same time...

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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Inge Wallin on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @11:57

Basically: yes. But the light zones are a little bigger than the dark zones of the earth due to light dispersion in the atmosphere.

Remember that exactly now is the mid point between winter and summer all over the world. So it's dawn at the north pole and dusk at the south pole.

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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Torsten Rahn on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @11:58

Yes, they are displayed correctly wrt the seasons.
The rather "boring" situation that you see on the plasmoid screenshot is due to the fact that we just had the equinox where spring started. At that time both poles are somewhat lit by the sun at the same time. But yes, it looks a bit as if both poles are lit a bit too much at the same time. I've just checked it back and it seems to be due to the shading in the textures.

For a different point of time that might appeal more to you you might want to have a look at the first screenshots here:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3275

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