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Retsof

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Suggestion for rings
« on: June 22, 2015, 05:11:53 PM »
So, since it'd probably kill your computer to spawn enough particles to form rings from collisions, what if you kept track of the particles in orbit.  If enough particles are in a certain orbit for long enough, rings with those parameters are spawned.

Angel Armageddon

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Re: Suggestion for rings
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2015, 07:48:00 PM »
Yeah!
That's what I was kinda talking about on my resent post.

Greenleaf

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Re: Suggestion for rings
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2015, 10:49:25 PM »
If enough particles are in a certain orbit for long enough, rings with those parameters are spawned.


We simulate rings as particles in orbit. This is to make gravitational interaction/deformation with the rings possible, so we are unlikely to add a "ring object".
Now that I finally completed rewriting the nbody physics, you should be able to have quite dense rings, on even low end computers.