Shitty Solar System Sandbox
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Take a trip into the Solar System, with this quick and dirty take on a Physics-based Simulation. Watch the planets orbit our star, inspect them for extra information, and add a few asteroids if you like, to see how their presence affects the system.
This was programmed in a little over 5 hours as part of a rapid prototyping class I'm taking this spring semester. As such, not everything works quite right.
- The slowmo makes the planets move jerkily.
- Mars cycles faster than the Earth
- Uranus cycles faster than Jupiter or Saturn
- Speeding up the passage of time causes Mercury to slowly fall into the Sun
- I also didn't get the trajectory estimator for spawning new celestial bodies implemented in time.
I might revisit this in the future and fix this things, once I understand how.
Note: There is an included README with the controls in the downloaded files.