Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: firefly2442 on January 24, 2018, 10:34:00 PM
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Are there any databases for simple spherical 2D orbit positions (radius, velocity, etc. ) of planets, asteroids, and so on? How does Aurora set them? I found JPL Horizons but it looks pretty complicated.
https://ssd. jpl. nasa. gov/?horizons
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Well, excluding comets, all bodies have circular orbits in-game. I think the DB just takes an average of the semi-major and semi-minor axis to decide the size of the orbit. Then for anything in Sol, he probably found a calculator online somewhere that'll give him a position on that orbit. For fictional bodies, he probably just randomly assigns them orbits and positions, with some caveats like how gas giants sometimes get trojan asteroids.