« Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a currently in-development space flight simulator game that allows players to build a rocket and launch it into space. »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbal_Space_Program
http://youtu.be/AD4M7ekSMYM
I can't help thinking it would be so cool if celestia developers could work on something similar.
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You're completely righ John about it being alpha, but it is already some fun creating rockets and seeing what happens to them. Bought it when it was still 15$
But azorni, I don't think that you will ever have this mechanic included in Celestia. Because Celestia has a totally different direction of its definition. Celestia is an educational program (alas with capabilities to use it for edutainment and also just plain fun by addon creation/use) showing you how your solar system and its planets and all the big rest of the universe looks like in 3D. That alone is already quite a lot of knowledge and programming needed for. To then also simulate n-body gravitational influences on arbitrary constructed space vehicles would be too much to ask from Celestia.
Kerbal is also still struggling with the n-body problem and has not a solution to it (yet?), but a work-around.
But azorni, I don't think that you will ever have this mechanic included in Celestia. Because Celestia has a totally different direction of its definition. Celestia is an educational program (alas with capabilities to use it for edutainment and also just plain fun by addon creation/use) showing you how your solar system and its planets and all the big rest of the universe looks like in 3D. That alone is already quite a lot of knowledge and programming needed for. To then also simulate n-body gravitational influences on arbitrary constructed space vehicles would be too much to ask from Celestia.
Kerbal is also still struggling with the n-body problem and has not a solution to it (yet?), but a work-around.
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You don't sound real enthused.Guckytos wrote:(alas with capabilities to use it for edutainment and also just plain fun by addon creation/use)
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If you want an accurate space-flight simulator, you should investigate Orbiter: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
It's available only for Windows, though.
It's available only for Windows, though.
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I got a version of it, 0.18.1, it's kinda fun, the forums are weak at best, the mods list make it more entertaining. I think a "game" should be entertaining, but way too many people there take it serious as if they had just discovered space flight. All in all the game is cool.
Travelling through hyperspace aint like dusting crops boy, its more like solving a rubiks cube, if all else fails, peel the stickers.
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