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Post by Lord Ba'al on May 26, 2015 23:56:55 GMT
I suddenly find myself wondering, what is Universim's current planet size? I know it's nowhere near Jupiter, to get that comparison out of the way, for that matter it's not even anywhere near the size of the moon, but what is it?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 1:45:38 GMT
Visually the "planets" appear to be comparable to asteroid sized masses, although I don't quite know how big a planet the engine is capable of rendering. I found them quite charming at first glance as they reminded me of Le Petit Prince. |
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Post by 13thGeneral on May 27, 2015 13:32:52 GMT
I can't seem to find a definite answer to the question of planet size. Is it a single static size, selectable sizes, or randomly generated sizes?
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Post by Roumsen on May 27, 2015 15:25:31 GMT
I don't know anything about that. I seem to remember that the planets will be bigger in the game than in the prototype and that there will be different types of planets with different biomes. So pretty much as everybody else knows  There was a Tweet from Lucas Norr regarding the planet editor. So he may know.  But I don't know if it's allowed for him to talk about it. How can I tag someone?
Edit: Here's the Tweet: ( well, actually it's not about the planet editor, but well,yeah.) |
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Post by 13thGeneral on May 27, 2015 15:53:21 GMT
I don't know anything about that. I seem to remember that the planets will be bigger in the game than in the prototype and that there will be different types of planets with different biomes. So pretty much as everybody else knows There was a Tweet from Lucas Norr regarding the planet editor. So he may know. But I don't know if it's allowed for him to talk about it. How can I tag someone?
Edit: Here's the Tweet: ( well, actually it's not about the planet editor, but well,yeah.) Thanks. To tag someone you have to use the '@' symbol followed by their username - which may be different from their displayed name; for example, Lucas Norr is Lucas Norr (@ + themasonx). |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on May 27, 2015 16:06:19 GMT
I don't know anything about that. I seem to remember that the planets will be bigger in the game than in the prototype and that there will be different types of planets with different biomes. So pretty much as everybody else knows There was a Tweet from Lucas Norr regarding the planet editor. So he may know. But I don't know if it's allowed for him to talk about it. How can I tag someone?
Edit: Here's the Tweet: ( well, actually it's not about the planet editor, but well,yeah.) To tag someone simply type an @ followed by their username. (The username can be different from the display name) I indeed read somewhere in between all the craploads of info that I posted that they upgraded to a bigger planet size in comparison to the prototype. This gives me hope that at some point the planet size might be increased even further or that it could possibly be made dependent on the capacity of a user's system, in which case I might end up with a planet the size of a tennis ball. |
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Post by Roumsen on May 27, 2015 16:43:39 GMT
I indeed read somewhere in between all the craploads of info that I posted that they upgraded to a bigger planet size in comparison to the prototype. A not inconsiderable effort btw! Regarding the Planet size: A teamhandball should be at least possible! |
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Post by Lucas Norr on Jun 30, 2015 6:44:18 GMT
Sorry for the late response, was so busy getting the game ready for E3 that I didn't notice this.
Planet size will be variable, and will be affected by a multitude of factors, such as the solar system info (type of star, distance from the star, etc.), as well as play affect things like climate, resource amounts, etc. Changing the planet size is as easy as feeding in a different "planetRadius" value into the generator. Currently, the home planet has a diameter of 120 units, while the nuggets are about 0.4 units tall. This is subject to change of course, but it gives a general sense of scale.
Basically, the planets have 4 biomes at the moment (water, grasslands, forest, and mountain for the motherplanet, other planets will have different mixes), though we're working on implementing an idea I had to increase this to 8 per planet. Each one has a coverage percentage of the planet (e.x. 30% water, 20% grasslands, 20% forest, 30% mountain) and rules for what objects and resources should be distributed and how.
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Post by Lucas Norr on Jun 30, 2015 7:45:44 GMT
I suddenly find myself wondering, what is Universim's current planet size? I know it's nowhere near Jupiter, to get that comparison out of the way, for that matter it's not even anywhere near the size of the moon, but what is it? I did a little calculation using a nugget's height as reference. If a nugget is 0.4 units tall, which corresponds to the average male height of 175.5cm, then the mother planet is currently 526.5 meters wide. This means that the circumference is 1.65km, meaning that you could walk around it in about 20 minutes at a comfortable pace. For comparison, the Earth is 12,742km wide, or 24,200x larger. The moon is 3,475km, or 6,600x larger. Jupiter is 142,984km across, or 271,600x larger. Pluto, which is too small to be considered a proper planet, is still 4,500x larger than our Mother "Planet" at 2,368km. Assuming equivalent density to Earth, the surface gravity would be 9.32 * 10^-6 times weaker. This means that the escape velocity would be .31 m/s, or about 1/5 of walking speed. |
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Post by Roumsen on Jun 30, 2015 14:05:38 GMT
Sorry for the late response, was so busy getting the game ready for E3 that I didn't notice this. Planet size will be variable, and will be affected by a multitude of factors, such as the solar system info (type of star, distance from the star, etc.), as well as play affect things like climate, resource amounts, etc. Changing the planet size is as easy as feeding in a different "planetRadius" value into the generator. Currently, the home planet has a diameter of 120 units, while the nuggets are about 0.4 units tall. This is subject to change of course, but it gives a general sense of scale. Basically, the planets have 4 biomes at the moment (water, grasslands, forest, and mountain for the motherplanet, other planets will have different mixes), though we're working on implementing an idea I had to increase this to 8 per planet. Each one has a coverage percentage of the planet (e.x. 30% water, 20% grasslands, 20% forest, 30% mountain) and rules for what objects and resources should be distributed and how. Cool. I just wanted to copy/paste your post from the official forum. |
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Post by 13thGeneral on Jun 30, 2015 14:09:04 GMT
Lucas Norr wow, that's great. I look forward to this game more every day. I love all the thought and maths that went into it this post - it shows your passion and commitment to the craft. Thanks, Lucas. We totally understand how massively busy you all are and seriously appreciate you taking even a minute to come here and comment.
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Post by Lucas Norr on Jul 1, 2015 2:40:11 GMT
Lucas Norr wow, that's great. I look forward to this game more every day. I love all the thought and maths that went into it this post - it shows your passion and commitment to the craft. Thanks, Lucas. We totally understand how massively busy you all are and seriously appreciate you taking even a minute to come here and comment. Thanks, glad to hear it! I was just thinking about the scale since you asked, and realized I had no idea what the real world size of anything was. I was originally just going to figure out the size, but I had fun with the math and got carried away... And thanks Roumsen but I already did! |
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Post by hardly on Jul 1, 2015 7:24:48 GMT
I suddenly find myself wondering, what is Universim's current planet size? I know it's nowhere near Jupiter, to get that comparison out of the way, for that matter it's not even anywhere near the size of the moon, but what is it? I did a little calculation using a nugget's height as reference. If a nugget is 0.4 units tall, which corresponds to the average male height of 175.5cm, then the mother planet is currently 526.5 meters wide. This means that the circumference is 1.65km, meaning that you could walk around it in about 20 minutes at a comfortable pace. For comparison, the Earth is 12,742km wide, or 24,200x larger. The moon is 3,475km, or 6,600x larger. Jupiter is 142,984km across, or 271,600x larger. Pluto, which is too small to be considered a proper planet, is still 4,500x larger than our Mother "Planet" at 2,368km. Assuming equivalent density to Earth, the surface gravity would be 9.32 * 10^-6 times weaker. This means that the escape velocity would be .31 m/s, or about 1/5 of walking speed. Great response.
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Lord Ba'al
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 1, 2015 9:07:42 GMT
I suddenly find myself wondering, what is Universim's current planet size? I know it's nowhere near Jupiter, to get that comparison out of the way, for that matter it's not even anywhere near the size of the moon, but what is it? I did a little calculation using a nugget's height as reference. If a nugget is 0.4 units tall, which corresponds to the average male height of 175.5cm, then the mother planet is currently 526.5 meters wide. This means that the circumference is 1.65km, meaning that you could walk around it in about 20 minutes at a comfortable pace. For comparison, the Earth is 12,742km wide, or 24,200x larger. The moon is 3,475km, or 6,600x larger. Jupiter is 142,984km across, or 271,600x larger. Pluto, which is too small to be considered a proper planet, is still 4,500x larger than our Mother "Planet" at 2,368km. Assuming equivalent density to Earth, the surface gravity would be 9.32 * 10^-6 times weaker. This means that the escape velocity would be .31 m/s, or about 1/5 of walking speed. So if a human could walk around it in 20 minutes, does this mean a nugget can too? |
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But I don't know if it's allowed for him to talk about it. 
