Solar System Scene with OpenGL
A simple animated solar system scene with various miscellaneous interactions to play with. More Screenshots
Installation
- Install Executable here
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Esc | Close Window |
| Mouse | Fly Through Camera View Direction |
| W | Fly Forward / Model View Pitch Down |
| A | Fly Left / Model View Yaw Left |
| S | Fly Backward / Model View Pitch Up |
| D | Fly Right / Model View Yaw Right |
| Left Shift | Fly Down |
| Space | Fly Up |
| Ctrl | Switch Camera Mode (fly Through / Model View Camera) |
| R | Randomise Orbit Angle |
| F | Toggle Player Torch Light |
| P | Pause Animation |
| < | Slow Down Animation |
| > | Speed Up Animation |
| [ | Decrease FOV |
| ] | Increase FOV |
Implementation
Code is poorly written, due to the time constraint.
Objects
- loaded directly from
.objfiles using custom parserObjFileReader- a crude parser for personal use only
- complex objects are downloaded from free platforms and some I made in blender.
Textures
- loaded using stbi library
- some 2k to 8k planet textures dowloaded from multiple sources
Animation
- all data (e.g. axial tilt, inclination, orbital period etc.) regarding tranformation of bodies are gathered from wiki and can be found in Excel Sheet
- orbits are animated using custom circular or elipse shape orbit
- apart from scale, distance and orbit shape everything else regarding the angle and daylight cycle are accurate for all bodies.
- e.g. earth spin roughly 365 per orbit, moon is tidally locked can be observed.
- No physics implemented thus the animation will not be accurate.
Shader
- phong
- spot light phong
- additonal shader code for night light texture of earth facing away from sun
Dependencies
- OpenGL, GLFW are configured
- Visual Studio 2022
- Visual Studio 2019 Available in dedicated branch
License
Licensed under the MIT License.