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Shada, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:30, archived)

New version of my planet system toy, now with (some) options. (Windows exe)

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:40, archived)

pretty

and mesmerising

(Tony Macaroni hello, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:45, archived)

Tell me if you see a bug (such as the options dialog not working at all, for instance).

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:49, archived)

Tried a few combinations

options works fine so far.
Obviously, I've tried LOADS of planets all going REALLY FAST, so it's slowed my pc down a bit.
But otherwise, I can see this becoming a little addictive. Had been planning to go to bed soon....

(Tony Macaroni hello, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:54, archived)

Cool.

It still needs options for force constants, and rules about collisions and the edges of the screen, and saving and loading sets of options, and settings for the colours and the fade rate. There's a bunch of ways I could extend it, like using the graphics card so it can go faster and be in 3D, and having planets still exist offscreen.

I need a break from it now, though.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 3:01, archived)

I was wondering...

not being a programmer.
How easy would it be to make the title bar and planet total disappear? I think it would look cool on an otherwise blank screen.
What about an option to keep all trails white?

(Tony Macaroni hello, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 3:17, archived)