Tool for the creation of solar system sized game worlds

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A tool for the rapid creation of Solar System sized game worlds would be beneficial to level designers as it would allow them to visualize and layout solar systems faster as well as adjust orbits, and the like more accurately.

We already have origin re-basing built into Unreal Engine 4. So hopefully scale should not be a problem.

It might be worth looking at Star Citizen's Sol ED or This tool for Influence on this tool.

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OK so - A bit of info that I dug up on how this can be achieved.

1. Shrink the size of the destination object the farther you are away from it (Planet, Star, Asteroid, etc.). This should be done on the client side only.
2. Make use of double precision or floating origin this will handle physics and the like at very long ranges. Computers only have so much precision.

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Here is a resource that may help that I shared in the discord.

https://forums.inovaestudios.com/t/procedural-terrain-rendering-how-to/765

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Here are three more resources that may help with the rendering side of things. One is a physical book.

https://www.amazon.com/3D-Engine-Design-Virtual-Globes/dp/1568817118
https://cesiumjs.org/hosted-apps/massiveworlds/
https://cesiumjs.org/ <- Full Source code is available on Github via the site.

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Tool for the creation of solar system sized game worlds

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Import Minecraft worlds