Solar system simulation in OpenGL 4.5
A pretty Solar System simulation with two-body physics. Uses modern features of OpenGL for a realtime experience.
- Check that OpenGL 4.5 is supported on your computer (nice tool if you're unsure)
- Download the latest release
- Run it
- Hold left click and move to look around
- Mouse wheel to zoom in and out
- Hold right click and move to pan the view around
- Alt + Mouse wheel to change field of view
- Ctrl + Mouse wheel to change exposure
- Tab to cycle through celestial bodies
- Shift+Tab to cycle back
- K/L to change timewarp speed
- Escape to exit
- F5 to print profiling info to command line
- F12 to save a screenshot to
screenshot/
folder - B to toggle bloom
- W to toggle wireframe mode
Requirements:
Out of source build:
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make
You still need custom textures or the textures distributed with the latest release, as they are too big to be contained in the repo. Beware of the incompatibilities.
- @leluron
- @ablanleuil for SHAUN, ideas and inspiration