I am building a system to base my science fiction novel on. I started with the local galaxies and deleted all the ones that I didn't think I'd ever use, leaving the major ones. I locked all of the positions of the galaxies because I didn't care if they moved and wanted to save on memory. I then locked the position of the Sun, again to save memory, and added Mercury. Mercury wasn't locked. I grew interested in making my own planets so it would be original and not copying somebody else's work. Here's my first problem:
Could not find a tutorial for Photoshop CS2 where all of the layer blending setting are messed up.
I had to go with a lower quality solution and used paint.net.
I placed another star and named it Colony. I then activated the habitable zone marker and placed a Gas Giant inside and tried to add rings. The rings gave me trouble but when I clicked Jupiter, they worked, I guess because I started with Jupiter. Here's my second problem:
When I deleted the rings, the appeared two Astronomical units away with no planet.
I then placed a moon with red and orange plants and oceans outside of the rings. Here's the REAL problem:
On my first attempt, when I reloaded the sim, the moon was inside the Gas Giant. On my second attempt the moon and gas giant were inside the star. None of the planets' orbits are locked. They should all revolve freely, and Mercury does. My gas giant and moon do not.
Forth Problem Discovered:
I can't set Mercury's rotation.
Fifth Problem Discovered: Phantom trails sometimes appears with no object and seam to be infinitely distant.
Most if not all problems seam to occur on restarting a simulation that I have saved. I now ALWAYS save my work, but my work doesn't save properly.
Below are several incarnations of the system. Any help is appreciated.
Topic: Orbit troubles (Read 3363 times)
