Experimenting with jME3 / Summer 2011
Requires a video card supporting OpenGL.
- High resolution imagary courtasy of NASA and others.
- Planetary distances are proportionally accurate.
- Planetary sizes are proportional to each other. The Sun had to be scaled down further due it being incredibly massive.
- Planetary axial tilt is roughly accurate.
- Planetary oribits are accurate to the date. The date can be increased/decreased via the
fandrkeys. - Planetary rotation scaled to one Earth day per 30s.
- Atmosphere and night-lights are implemented for Earth.
Main class:
net.cofront.solarsystem.Main
Oribital calculations can be found in:
net.cofront.solarysystem.OrbitalElements
Controls Summary:
Left Mouse : Click to lock/unlock mouse aim
wsad : Move camera forward/backward/left/right
q : Move camera up
z : Move camera down
shift : Hold down to move at 10% of normal speed
o : Toggle planet orbital rings on/off
i : Toggle planet indicators on/off
y : Toggle milkyway skymap on/off
c : Toggle clouds/atmosphere (Earth only)
f : Increment the date
r : Decrement the date
1 - 9 : Jump to planet
Screen Shots: http://imgur.com/a/T6VLJ#0
