How can I set up Space Sim gravity physic/scripting?

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Hi, I’m completely new to Unreal Engine, I need help and suggestions on making a space simulator game which applies basic gravity physic.

I want to make moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, people/vehicle/objects can walk on planet’s surface. With enough pushing force, a ship, a rocket, or anything, can be launched to sit on the planet’s high orbit (like to launch a satellite), or with greater force, break the gravity and fly away to land on other planets/moons.

Does UE4 support such physic model? (multiple gravity sources)

If it does not, which is the easiest, fastest, best performance and most efficient way to achieve that?

Thank you!

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Hi mGlushed,

If you’re asking if UE4 natively supports point gravity (i.e. objects being pulled down to a single point), no it does not. However what you are asking is possible for you to engineer yourself.

I’ll point you to the direction of the UDK forums here: < UDK Forums > where a lot of other people have tackled the same question, and maybe you can port one of their solutions to UE4! Here’s some examples of what I was able to find:

Point Gravity Tutorial and a
Video with Code

Hope this helps!

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Awesome! Thank you, I will check it out!

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theres no code with that video