How would I make a solar system similar to one in no mans sky? not the full universe, just the system.
Hey there @Foreignprince80! Welcome to the community! So as Antigravity had noted, most of the base engine features are more geared towards planar worlds (with some caveats) and generally gravity being -Z. However that doesn’t quite stop some developers from going the whole way and creating entire systems. Much of what you’re going to want to do is smoke in mirrors, and fake whatever would require building from the ground up from engine source. Though if this is one of your first projects I recommend dipping your toes and working on a much smaller scope of a project.
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For example, if you wanted to create an actually spherical planet from voxels, voxel plugin has your back:
Though when it comes to custom gravity, you’re going to be creating much of that yourself. An example:
Omg thank you, I didn’t get a notification for this for months! Just seeing this now! I’ve made no progress since then so thank you.
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