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The sun feels warm, even when it maybe shouldn't

Open eriktorbjorn opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

In the tundra area:

>EXAMINE SUN
The sun is hidden by the overcast.

>FEEL SUN
It feels warm.

Which seems strange, when the area is described as cold. "Numb with cold" is how it describes you, if you hang around there long enough before you leave.

At the lagoon:

>EXAMINE SUN
The sun is still below the horizon.

>FEEL SUN
It feels warm.

Which is arguably wrong.

These messages are all printed by SUN-F. The description of the sun varies depending on where you are, but the message for "FEEL SUN" only depends on whether or not you are outdoors.

eriktorbjorn avatar Sep 11 '20 13:09 eriktorbjorn

The sun is also visible in some places where it shouldn't be:

>LOOK
Southeast Yard

You're just inside the stone wall, near the ranch house's southeast corner. A
raised deck stands immediately to the north, and an open iron gate in the wall
leads southeast.

>EXAMINE SUN
The sun is still below the horizon.

>NORTH
You stride onto the deck.

Front Deck

You're on a raised deck attached to the east side of the ranch house. Two closed
doors, one at the deck's left corner and one at the right, lead inside. A gentle
ramp slopes down to the front yard.

>EXAMINE SUN
The sun is warm and bright.

This is the condition in SUN-F:

		      (<OR <IS? ,HERE ,DESERT>
			   <HERE? NSAND WSAND ESAND SSAND AT-SDOORS
				  IN-ORBIT ON-SAT IN-SHACK TOWER-PLAT
				  ON-TOWER ON-CIST IN-CIST IN-MILL>>

But as noted in https://github.com/the-infocom-files/trinity/issues/20 at the very least the following rooms in the New Mexico area are also outdoors but not marked as DESERT:

  • IN-JEEP
  • NEYARD
  • SWYARD
  • ON-PORCH
  • ERANCH

So they should be added to the list here.

eriktorbjorn avatar Sep 19 '20 06:09 eriktorbjorn