FT3: can you relocate the world's poles?

hammerquill · February 2013

I just downloaded the demo of FT3, and it looks like it does most of what I want. One thing I assume it does, but can't find, and haven't been able to suss out by clicking around, searching help or searching the forums, is: can you relocate the poles of the world? If I've generated a world and really like a particular section of a continent for my purposes, but it's stuck in the tropics, and I need it to be temperate, can I redefine the world's north pole, and have the machine rethink all climate data, projections, etc., based on that? I assumed it would be simple... maybe I'm just missing something?

Also, is there a proper globe viewer for the finished output, so I can use it like Google Earth?

pdj · February 2013

You can change the North Pole position in Map -> World Settings -> Secondary

Peter

hammerquill · February 2013

Thanks. I just found it for myself (don't know how I missed it the first three times...)

lyobovnik · June 2013

Is this the same for real-world data? Seems not to work.

jslayton · June 2013

The North Pole feature in FT3 moves the fractal function. It should not affect real-world data or editing information added to a world.

lyobovnik · July 2013

Ah. I'm still looking for what I want, then. =[ I would like to start with real-world data and then put the North Pole elsewhere.

lyobovnik · August 2013

Essentially, I wanted to springboard off the most suitable "ETOPO..." data set and make a fantasy world for RP campaigns out of the ideas here: "http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/".

FT3 is very cool, but I'm a little bummed that it looks like I can't do what I had in mind. =[

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