I installed the sandbox software (SARnbox) and wanted tips/tutorials on how to drain rainwater without having to close and reopen the program.
Thank you very much.
This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by jegracioli.
I’ll try breaking my reply into smaller bits to see which parts are rejected. If you need help getting any of these to work, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Let’s begin…
There are two (and a half) official interfaces for removing rainwater: the -evr command line argument and configuring a Vrui tool to “Manage Water”.
Quoting from the help output: “-evr <evaporation rate> Water evaporation rate in cm/s”. This can set a constant evaporation rate to remove water over time, but is fixed during the run of SARndbox.
The “and a half” method is that water flows out of the sandbox at its edges. Shaping the sand so that the box edges are low points in the topography will let the water escape the sandbox.
I also have an unofficial method using the SARndbox control pipe. My own method is to make the “-evr” function available via the control pipe. With this patch, the evaporation rate can be changed from an external program.