Devlog 5 - 3D ISS Model + Satellite Tracking

A custom 3D model for the ISS has been added, alongside a basic satellite tracking implementation.

I decided that the site should have more life rather than just thousands of green dots, so I made the ISS easily identifyable by giving it a custom model. I want to expand this to more satellites, but I don’t think my pc will like thousands of 3d objects, so maybe only a few satellites will have it and others like the 11000+ starlink ones will not.

Also on that note I tried using a highly detailed ISS model and that turned out to be a really bad idea. Who could’ve guessed the integrated gpu on my laptop really does not like thousands of polygons being rendered at once.

Oh yeah I also added a basic satellite tracking mode where you can click a satellite and automatically follow its journey. Next I will probably add an overlay to give you information on that satellite.

Anyways, thank you for reading and I’ll post more updates shortly.