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Title: Question on barycenters
Post by: smjjames on November 20, 2011, 04:58:41 PM

You know those barycenters that will pop up when you're exploding an object or have LOTS of objects in a small orbital space, dissapear after a while, and sometimes cause quite a bit of lag? I'm just wondering if it's possible to see what objects are using a particular barycenter, although I've sometimes seen them be inside an object

Title: Re: Question on barycenters
Post by: vh on November 20, 2011, 05:34:22 PM

strange, the only time when i get barycenters is when i specifically click "create barycenter" or soemthing like that.

Title: Re: Question on barycenters
Post by: smjjames on November 20, 2011, 05:44:45 PM

Try exploding something into 500 pieces (or less) and have it on auto, and you'll see lots of barycenters that exist for a brief amount of time.

Anyways, at this time, there is one barycenter in the save I attatched (it's already zoomed in), although there were four earlier. They tend to come and go. Turn on labels and parent > child gravitational relationships for understanding of why the barycenter is there.

Edit: Actually, heres a jupiter that I exploded into 500+ pieces, turn on labels and you'll see there are a lot of barycenters. Granted theres a ton of bodies compacted near each other, which is why they are there, but they'll dissapear after a while.