Day 5 of making Gravitas

Officially completed Phase 2 ❤️‍🩹🔥

Highlight

• Added horizontal rotation to camera
• Added interesting values to the bodies.

That is, while testing with different values, just for fun, I discovered something weird, but interesting….
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But yeah, that means from tomorrow I’ll officially be able to start Phase 3, aka, generalizing it to N body instead of just 2, and adding many more features…!
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That’s all for today 🗿
Thank you…!!

Day 4 of making Gravitas

Highlights

• Added pause/play feature (pressing space bar)
• Added reset feature (pressing R)
• Added a movable camera. (WASD)
• Made the cam move relative to the target.
• Removed adjustable dt from goals as it’s practically useless in phase 2.

And now, the real simulator shall start gettin built🗿

Looks like the addiction has turned towards obsession 🗿✌🏻

Day 3 of making Gravitas

Yesterday, I was up till about 5 in the morning, learning about different functions of cpp and their implementations so I could add more features.
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Along with that, yesterday after posting the devlog, I actually was able to render the thing in 3D, but it was rather bland, simply two blue bodies orbiting each other.
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Though, today, I was finally able to make them have trails , which took an awful lot to do so, while making sure it didn’t affect the rendering.
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That is, because the trails were simply compounding over time and making the simulation slower, or I should say, the rendering slower…
So I used a clever trick (after trying like, 3-4 of them which didn’t work) to fix the issue.
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But all in all, it worked 🐈
(even though only for a fixed amount of time 😭, I’ll fix it completely/professionally later on)
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Next Steps:

• Make the camera movable
• Add Pause/play type of controls
• Add adjustable dt

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P.S. I also added more files to make the project be more structured, with different cpp and header files handling different function of the simulation…
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This project is perhaps the coolest things I’ve ever worked on in my entire life…. 🔥

Looks like someone’s addicted to a project 🗿✌🏻

Day 2 of making Gravitas:

• Added Vector arithmetic functions
• Added Symplectic Euler Integration as a base to do the calculations.
• Updated the readme and added different feature phases.
• aka done with Phase 1

Next Step:

• Render it 3D.
• aka begin Phase 2

Following the laws of conservation of Mental sanity, I believe that’s enough programming for the day lol…
Or maybe not? 💀
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Haha, let’s see how much can I get done before the day ends 🔥
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P.S. Please ignore the warnings of C++ in CLion rn, as I’m still a beginner and learning while building. 🥹
So I’ll likely fix them once I know those concepts. 🗿🤷🏻‍♂️

Day 1 of making Gravitas:
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Done with:
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Readme.md
Setting up CLion as Mac doesn’t have VisualStudio
Setting up the repo.
Setting up a basic testing structure for main.cpp
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The readme provides a clean structure of what I’m up to and my future plans with this project if someone’s interested 🐈
https://github.com/Alchemic-Eclipse/gravitas

And that’s all for today ig..?
As I also have many other things to do in life rn (including study), so I’ll be making this project step by step everyday…!
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Chasing progress over perfection 🙃
Thank you..!!