How are atmospheric percentages made in game

[CaravanMan0929 (I dont actually know what a caravan is BTW)]

How come the numbers can total to more or less than 100%? And how are the atmosphere composition calculated? Do cells change the atmosphere by their chemical processes?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

The photosynthesizers create the oxygen. The system needs some tweaking though.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I thought it was fixed a while ago to not add up to over 100%?

[hhyyrylainen]

There should always be the “other” category visible if the gas percentages don’t end up as 100%. Though I guess due to GUI display rounding it is possible that like the all percentages add up to like only 99.9% or something. In that situation the player should imagine the “other” category being shown as 0.01%.

But the way the gases are calculated is that they are all made into estimated absolute values (based on estimated patch volume), then changes are applied, and then finally the percentages are recalculated. So they should always match up to 100% once the other compound amounts are driven out by generated other gases.

Or at least that’s how I recall it being without re-checking the code.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Eh it being misaligned by 0.01% doesn’t seem like that much of a deal

[CaravanMan0929 (I dont actually know what a caravan is BTW)]

I am not seeing the “other” category in my game

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I think it might sometimes disappear later into the game. It’s termed “other gasses” and should be present next to other gasses in the editor species report section on the right. I think it’s represented by a grey hex with a “…” on it

[Rathalos]

Wait, You don’t see this?

[CaravanMan0929 (I dont actually know what a caravan is BTW)]

nevermind, i do but it was very hidden

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I am not sure if we do need to increase the noticeablility of the environmental compounds section in the report tab of the editor basing off of this comment…

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Maybe outlining the numbers with cyan or chartreuse would help?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe each gas should have it’s own color?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Thrive - The colorful update!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So us swooping down to the level Mojang is at currently? (Honestly it might not be that bad considering they are apparently doing some stuff on the technical level)

[CaravanMan0929 (I dont actually know what a caravan is BTW)]

I just never looked at those stats and only looked at the ones while playing

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

That explains why then. I suppose before you all people asking about this would get their answer by looking around the editor

[CaravanMan0929 (I dont actually know what a caravan is BTW)]

@Poodelicus

The photosynthesizers create the oxygen. The system needs some tweaking though.

So theroetically if I made a bunch of photosynthesizing cells, they would flood the world with oxygen?

maybe we should switch from a percentages system to a partial pressure system tbh but idk

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@CaravanMan0929

So theroetically if I made a bunch of photosynthesizing cells, they would flood the world with oxygen?

CO2 levels would drop and aerobes would begin consuming the oxygen so no

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Also, CO2 levels do not change with Fermentation from Hydrogenases in game.

@hhyyrylainen

It would create a big unbalanced CO2 producer in the game (photosynthesis is balanced by respiration). There would need to be some other factor that would balance the CO2 generated from all the hydrogenase or otherwise all the game worlds would be like 95% CO2. So that’s why it wasn’t added because it would ruin the dynamic gas simulation.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Which prevents the co2-o2 balance from getting unstable/divergent from the intended pathways