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mroberti 08/15/2018 09/21/2018 Artificial Galaxies / Corona / Programming

Ships, Galaxy functions, and more!

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Artificial Galaxies

So this latest incarnation incorporates some cool stuff. In the Galaxy object, I’ve built functionality so you can query the Galaxy to return only stars that are owned by a particular civilization. The usage:

local data= {
    -- The width and height of the
    -- galaxy in units. Pixels, light years,
    -- hey it's up to you,
    -- Number of civilizations
    -- minimum distance from another civilization
    width = screenW,
    height = screenH,
    civilizations = 1,
    min_dist_from_civilizations = 200,
    max_dist_from_civilizations = 400,
}

local galaxy = Galaxy:new(data)

starModel = galaxy:GetAllStarsBelongingToACivilization(galaxy.civilizations[1])

local data= {

-- The width and height of the

-- galaxy in units. Pixels, light years,

-- hey it's up to you,

-- Number of civilizations

-- minimum distance from another civilization

width = screenW,

height = screenH,

civilizations = 1,

min_dist_from_civilizations = 200,

max_dist_from_civilizations = 400,

}

local galaxy = Galaxy:new(data)

starModel = galaxy:GetAllStarsBelongingToACivilization(galaxy.civilizations[1])

That will return a table with all the star objects that belong to civilization 1 …

mroberti 08/11/2018 08/11/2018 Artificial Galaxies / LUA / Programming

The Star and Planet objects

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Artificial Galaxies

Presenting, the Star, Planet and Galaxy objects. The idea is to build some simple objects for basics at this point, and then we can iterate through them as we go, adding more and more functionality. So I think this as good as any time to just start the basics. So …