Description

This program provides an interactive Solar System experience. Users have the ability to roam a model of our Solar System at varying speeds, as well as speed up/slow down the orbital speed of the planets surrounding the sun.

Controls

• mouse - camera scrolling
• w - move forward
• a - move left
• s - move down
• d - move right
• q - move down
• r - move up
• t/T - decrease/increase orbital speed
• r/R - decrease/increase roaming speed

Technical Difficulties

Skybox

• Logically handling 8 indices across 14 vertices
• Correct orientation of the image to the box
• Edges of the texture not aligning properly with the box

Collision Detection

• Skybox collision was allowing camera exit of the skybox, but not re-entry
• Accounting for directional motion when calculating detection

Resources

• Background Image
• Skymap Reference
• CSS Reference
• HTML Reference

Planets

Sun Texture

Mercury Texture

Venus Texture

Earth Texture

Mars Texture

Jupiter Texture

Saturn Texture

Uranus Texture

Neptune Texture

Pluto Texture