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DoctorWh0?

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Bulge
« on: July 01, 2016, 06:39:55 AM »
My idea is that some planets should have their equator bulge out, like Saturn or Jupiter. They are not perfect spheres, and Us2 should be realistic with those types of planets.

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Re: Bulge
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2016, 11:14:27 AM »
They would need SPH for such a task but it's still work in progress at the moment.

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Re: Bulge
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2016, 11:47:28 PM »
They would need SPH for such a task but it's still work in progress at the moment.

Not necessarily, the rendering could just be changed slightly and there would be a readout/changeable part of the properties tab showing the oblateness

Greenleaf

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Re: Bulge
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2016, 12:25:36 AM »
My idea is that some planets should have their equator bulge out, like Saturn or Jupiter. They are not perfect spheres, and Us2 should be realistic with those types of planets.


That is something we have considered quite a lot. Not primarily for planets such as Saturn, since even it is not easily showing the bulge to the naked eye, being only about 10% "wider" than it is "tall".
US² being a sandbox, you can make planets spin faster than Saturn and we would like to eventually add the spin bulging/flattening and eventual fragmentation. The latter is something which ties nicely into the Roche fragmentation implementation.

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Re: Bulge
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2016, 11:19:32 PM »
saturn looks quite bulgy if you're viewing it in, say, a cassini image