Hi everyone,
I am a newbie.
With that out of the way, my fist step in testing whether Unreal Engine would be the best toolkit for my game is to build a “Galactic View” level.
My game design for Galactic View would feature approximately 2 million stars located in a 3D elliptical galaxy. The player will be able to switch to this view and see them all as dots of light.
1st testing pass would be to procedurally generate 10000 dots:
- Generate random azimuthal angle (0-360), polar angle (0-360) and radius (0-10000)
- Transform said coordinates to cartesian coordinates
- Squash Z-coordinates by a factor of 5
- Transform them back to spherical coordinates.
The radius is in light years.
Upon zoom-in, the player should be able to choose a zoom factor which is of no less than 1 light years (a sphere 1 light years radius) centered on a star while still seeing all other stars in the distance by rotating the camera.
I am not accustomed to using Unreal Units, so my first question would be: should I be worried about UU settings? I don’t want to create a level that’s too big and use up unnecessary resources.