It is good to be back in school
again after a short absence, due to funeral preparations. For this week, I had
spent most of my programming time working on the first medium question, which
is to create a solar system with planets and moons. We also had to add
information about each planet and moon whenever the player clicks the planet or
moon. This appeared to be very difficult at first, but once I began to work on
it, it was pretty easy to do, as it was just a lot of copy and pasting and
getting the information for each planet and moon from the web. Programming-wise,
it wasn’t too difficult, as the majority of the code was derived from the
sample projects, and pretty much required a combination of them.
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| The solar system layout |
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| The sun |
I had to add
code that allows the user to click on any planet or moon, and it would display
the name of that planet or moon and 8 pieces of information about that planet
or moon. This was done using some of the code from one of the sample projects
as a basis and foundation, and I had to add the all the tool tip information
for each planet and moon, using information from the web. The clicking function
was also taken from another sample project, which was modified to create a
bounding box around the planet or moon when clicked on. Once a planet or moon
is clicked on, the information about that particular planet or moon will appear
in the top left corner, which I had programmed in. The parenting sample project
contained all the code that I needed to create all the planets and moons, and
to make them orbit around the sun or the planet, as well as to spin while in
orbit. I searched online for accurate information about the orbital and spin speed
of each planet and moon, in order to make this program as accurate as possible.
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| Earth |
Stay tuned for
more updates on my game engines progression!
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| Jupiter's moon Europa |
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