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Bla

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Radius = Diameter?
« on: May 02, 2010, 10:09:18 AM »
The default radius of the sun in Universe Sandbox is 1.39 M km, but on Wikipedia it says a solar radius is 695,500 km - which is about half of that.
When I edit an .xml file, and use the <diameter>-thing, it uses that value in the radius field.

Shouldn't it be labeled diameter instead?
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Re: Radius = Diameter?
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2010, 11:02:25 AM »
Radius is half the diameter. The radius of a sun in US 2 is actually the diameter. So it should be labeled Diameter.
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Re: Radius = Diameter?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 06:01:10 PM »
Oh wow... you're right.

The icon show diameter, but the tooltip says radius. It should say diameter.

I'll fix that in the next release.

Thanks for pointing this out.
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