Intro

"Planet" is libgdx game prototype where spaceship flies above procedurally generated 3D planet.

Downloads

• Desktop JAR - https://github.com/afomins/planet/releases/download/v0.1.0/planet-v0.1.0.jar
• Android APK - https://github.com/afomins/planet/releases/download/v0.1.0/planet-v0.1.0.apk

GIFs

Following GIFs illustrate how "Planet" looks:

Flying above planet	Scaling and rotating around spaceship

Flying above South America	Shooting bullets

Implementation details

• libgdx was used as platform independent framework
• Spaceship model was siletly stolen from libgdx tutorials
• Planet mesh was procedurally generated as described in this tutorial -> http://blog.andreaskahler.com/2009/06/creating-icosphere-mesh-in-code.html
• Following heightmap was used to modify height of icosphere's vertices to generate mountains
• Following colormap was used to adjust color of icosphere's vertices to separate land from see

Bild instructions (Desktop JAR)

• Clone git@github.com:afomins/planet.git and import Gradle project into your favorite IDE
• Allow Gradle to download dependent packages and update project files
• Run com.matalok.planet.desktop.DesktopLauncher class