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Simple solar system generator with many planet types.
It utilises Perlin noise algorithm to generate textures for everything.
Can be used as the screensaver



Controls:
Mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
Left mouse button to select an object.
Esc to quit.

Binary: win32, osx
Sources: github

Currently in development, any feedback and advices are greatly appreciated.

thanks for this , very useful. especially you have provided the source.
i suggest a feature when the user press S as an example it will display the solar system planets with its specific planets sizes and orbital speeds.
regards

Wow, very nice!
I should try to merge it with my own star-system generator (http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=39470) to generate all the infos about the planets.

applePi wrote:thanks for this , very useful. especially you have provided the source.
i suggest a feature when the user press S as an example it will display the solar system planets with its specific planets sizes and orbital speeds.
regards

I'm planning to add some comments to the code so everyone can use it.
Don't really get what you mean. You want to see the planet info near all of the planets after pressing S?

Kelebrindae wrote:Wow, very nice!
I should try to merge it with my own star-system generator (http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=39470) to generate all the infos about the planets.

Your project looks far more advanced and serious than mine. I probably should take your planet generation algorithm if you don't mind. Or actually we can do something toghether. For example, you can export your solar system to a file and i can process it and visualize.
However, i should start working on moons' support.

deseven wrote:
You want to see the planet info near all of the planets after pressing S?

No, i mean our own solar system: sun, mercury, Venus, earth...etc
http://truenation.org/wp-content/upload ... stem-2.jpg
with its planets relative sizes and orbital speeds. but now i think this suggested addition will get your code out of its purpose and making it more complex. so my suggestion are better for another standalone program which are utilizing your current code in its design and can be used in educational purposes.

Very nice...really !!!
Thanks to you, it's more easy to understand the moving of planets
It's a little bit like an aquarium..we can look at it, during several hours

Thanks for sharing

applePi wrote:my suggestion are better for another standalone program which are utilizing your current code in its design and can be used in educational purposes.

If i'll do an import support then anyone will be able to create a custom solar system and load it.
Nevertheless, if we want to represent our system then we need at least moons, so this is what i'm going to do next.

Kwai chang caine wrote:Very nice...really !!!

No, it's not. There is a laaaarge room for improvements

updated to version 0.2
+ OS X support
* doubled planet texture size
* orbit trails replaced by actual orbits
* various bugfixes and small improvements
* code refactoring and commenting

deseven wrote: I probably should take your planet generation algorithm if you don't mind.

No problem! For now, I don't have much time to code so I'll be glad if this source can be of use to your project.

updated to version 0.2.1
+ background nebulas (needs some more tuning)
+ icon
* orbit for the selected object
* some internal changes

heading straight to the moon support for ver 0.3

Nice!

I'm kinda tired of all that PB problems related to the opengl performance, glitches (crossplatform 2d-drawing is terrible) and lack of the important features, so i decided to switch to the more advanced 2d engine - love2d.
You can check the almost complete rewrite (no planet types and names yet) here.

Consider this PB project as abandoned. Of course anyone can still use it for education or other purposes, i don't mind.

P.S. PB is still great for other things