Author Topic: Universe Sandbox 2 - New Screenshots - April 2012 (Read 149959 times)

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #60 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:42:54 PM »

Not sure yet... although it's at least a few months away.

JayPix2012 · « **Reply #61 on:** May 18, 2012, 01:10:21 PM »

Sir, Yes Sir Mister Dan Dixon!

smjjames · « **Reply #62 on:** May 18, 2012, 05:26:28 PM »

Quote from: mjduniverse on May 18, 2012, 05:23:46 PM

Will There Be nebulae?

Do you mean as a background or as part of the simulation?

Darvince · « **Reply #63 on:** May 18, 2012, 05:36:35 PM »

yes let's make this everything sandbox

ASBusinessMagnet · « **Reply #64 on:** May 19, 2012, 01:52:16 AM »

Quote from: Darvince on May 18, 2012, 05:36:35 PM

yes let's make this everything sandbox

Quote from: Wikipedia

The universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists...

vh · « **Reply #65 on:** May 19, 2012, 03:33:21 AM »

Because of the scope of the universe, it is pretty much impossible to completely simulate it. This is compounded by the face that we don't even know how most of it works yet! Also it would probably take an insanely powerful computer.

Desacabose · « **Reply #66 on:** May 19, 2012, 05:19:28 AM »

Processing Universe Sandbox

mjduniverse · « **Reply #67 on:** May 19, 2012, 07:28:06 AM »

Then How About In The Backround Because, That Is Possible.

smjjames · « **Reply #68 on:** May 19, 2012, 07:37:36 AM »

Yeah, or make it easy to use other images as a background. Finding images that look seamless for the background might be a problem though.

Pluto100 · « **Reply #69 on:** May 20, 2012, 03:03:05 PM »

This looks awesome!! Good luck!

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #70 on:** May 30, 2012, 03:54:00 PM »

Here's a development screenshot that Thomas shared with the team earlier today.

"The image shows the test solar system running with a user time step of 4 days.
Each object then subdivides this step into smaller intervals to remain accurate. The sun can advance 4 days at a time with no problem, but mercury needs to subdivide into 16 steps of 4 days/16 = 6 hours ..and so on.
The steps are power of two divided, so it is either 2 or 4 but not 3. The longer the user step, the more substeps each need to take." - Thomas

In short... moons thrown out the simulation because you turned up the time step too high? Soon to be a thing of the past.

Darvince · « **Reply #71 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:00:02 PM »

Very naicce.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #72 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:02:19 PM »

Awesome. Now I can collide two solar systems and watch the moons get thrown off and become planets or do funky stuff like that!

Bla · « **Reply #73 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:05:57 PM »

That's awesome, I couldn't imagine there being a solution to that problem.

smjjames · « **Reply #74 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:45:01 PM »

Quote from: Dan Dixon on May 30, 2012, 03:54:00 PM

Here's a development screenshot that Thomas shared with the team earlier today.

"The image shows the test solar system running with a user time step of 4 days.
Each object then subdivides this step into smaller intervals to remain accurate. The sun can advance 4 days at a time with no problem, but mercury needs to subdivide into 16 steps of 4 days/16 = 6 hours ..and so on.
The steps are power of two divided, so it is either 2 or 4 but not 3. The longer the user step, the more substeps each need to take." - Thomas

In short... moons thrown out the simulation because you turned up the time step too high? Soon to be a thing of the past.

Awesome! Now orbits of days or hours won't force us to slow down the simulation.

Quote from: atomic7732 on May 30, 2012, 04:02:19 PM

Awesome. Now I can collide two solar systems and watch the moons get thrown off and become planets or do funky stuff like that!

Could we have a copy and paste function so we can copy an entire system and then paste it somewhere in another simulation?

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #75 on:** May 30, 2012, 04:51:51 PM »

Quote from: smjjames on May 30, 2012, 04:45:01 PM

Could we have a copy and paste function so we can copy an entire system and then paste it somewhere in another simulation?

Yes. Chris is working on this tech right now (save/load/copy/paste).

vh · « **Reply #76 on:** May 30, 2012, 05:03:27 PM »

It'd be cool to be able to make a spiral/elliptical/irregular/barred galaxy of any size in the new version

Kevin1994 · « **Reply #77 on:** May 30, 2012, 05:43:42 PM »

Will we see volcano's and lighting on the planet? >,.....>

Darvince · « **Reply #78 on:** May 30, 2012, 10:10:14 PM »

Quote from: Darvince on May 18, 2012, 05:36:35 PM

yes let's make this everything sandbox

Brixmon · « **Reply #79 on:** May 30, 2012, 11:38:18 PM »

Is that gravitational lensing?
It is.

Kevin1994 · « **Reply #80 on:** May 31, 2012, 02:55:19 AM »

Everything Sandbox eh

Desacabose · « **Reply #81 on:** May 31, 2012, 04:42:54 AM »

Quote from: Kevin1994 on May 31, 2012, 02:55:19 AM

Everything Sandbox eh

Well.......the universe is everything

mjduniverse · « **Reply #82 on:** May 31, 2012, 04:03:25 PM »

The Textures Look Much Better!

vh · « **Reply #83 on:** June 02, 2012, 11:45:16 AM »

maybe later

'It's a good idea, but it's currently too buggy and incomplete for any sort of beta feedback to be useful right now.

I know you're excited... we are too. We're really looking forward to showing off the new version to everyone.' - Dan

mjduniverse · « **Reply #84 on:** June 15, 2012, 04:32:28 PM »

It's Probably A Long Time Before Version 3 Comes Out.
And Not By Years But, Months.

vh · « **Reply #85 on:** June 15, 2012, 05:26:47 PM »

Dan Dixon said sometime this year. That's all we know.

mjduniverse · « **Reply #86 on:** June 16, 2012, 05:01:56 AM »

By The Time It's Out I Will Be Able To Copy 1 Galaxy To Make 7 Galaxies Colliding! instanty.
But For Now I Have To Do It By Hand.

mjduniverse · « **Reply #87 on:** June 21, 2012, 07:49:30 AM »

And Just Sometime This Year Is Really Not A Long Time From Now!

jjake1245 · « **Reply #88 on:** June 30, 2012, 08:11:25 AM »

Hopefully there will be a beta in late July or Early August (Just in time for the summer holiday's so i will have a lot off time to test it)

Darvince · « **Reply #89 on:** July 07, 2012, 01:16:23 PM »

No, they're only progressing rather slowly on it.