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SuperNova

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Impact simulation?
« on: February 04, 2013, 10:01:28 AM »
Hello,

Is it possible to simulate a predetermined impact? Its really hard to make something from far away impact a planet. This would make a nice feature for US3 I think.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Impact simulation?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 10:25:29 AM »
It's pretty hard, but quite doable.

If you have patience to let this simulation run to it's end without messing the timestep you'll see that the pod comes very close to crash 3 times.

If you'll do only one crash, I advise you to pause the sim, place to bodies very close, reverse their velocities and let the sim go, they will go away from each other, after some time all you have to do is reverse the simulation velocities again. They will be in a collision course.