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Cryo

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Volcano's and Tidal friction
« on: August 26, 2014, 12:54:00 PM »
i was thinking just now really, Where's the more distinctive land features on the Random planet's this could be a slider to change how frequent you'll see them across the planet and this could be an on off option but if i put,let's say Venus next to Eath close enough for there to be.Massive Crack's on the side the planet is facing.Jupiter Like Jupiter and Io.

Xriqxa

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Re: Volcano's and Tidal friction
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 06:55:42 PM »
You mean Tidal Heating? Thomas is working on that. He's awesome.

Greenleaf

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Re: Volcano's and Tidal friction
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 11:46:59 PM »
Massive Crack's on the side the planet is facing.Jupiter Like Jupiter and Io.


It is on the todo list, as is slow down of rotation due to tidal deformation and fragmenting inside the Roche limit and fragmenting when the spin rate is too high for gravity to hold the planet together. While these things will be emergent behaviors in the SPH model and just work, it requires a little more consideration for the perfect rigid body spheres. Same can be said about collisions.


Oh, and thanks Xriqxa :-)