Infrared emissivity?

[SapphireCarbuncle]

What is infrared emissivity supposed to do? I change the value, and it does absolutely nothing to the planet's temparature. Is it an unfinished feature?

[CrisVal]

For now it is only for planets without climate in the simulation, planets like the earth, although it should be affected by the value of the infrared emission, it does not because it is not yet well implemented, or so it seems.

[SapphireCarbuncle]

Bump
Devs, will infrared emissivity be fixed in the next update?

[Jar]

Sorry for the issue. I'll make a note to look into infrared emmisivity, but we have a number of climate issues currently which we'll need to address further down the line. These are not on our immediate to-do list right now, simply because we're focusing on other features. But we definitely want to make sure all of these are working properly again.

[SirWobbyTheFirst]

I can use Infrared Emmisivity to adjust how much of a greenhouse effect a planet has but in order for it to be useful, you need to set the Surface Pressure based on the planets mass, my general rule of thumb is, if a planet's mass is in masses of Earth, the Surface Pressure should be in kPa, with the Surface Pressure equal to the planet's mass, so if you have a planet that is 2 Masses of Earth, you would set the Surface Pressure to 2.0 kPa.

Likewise if you have a planet whose mass is in masses of Moon then the Surface Pressure should be in hPa and I'm assuming for a mass in masses of Jupiter, it would be Atm's. Once done, the Infrared Emissivity bar will then have an effect on the object's temperature.