By
@Jhenil
SkyTrace was for aviation enthusiast whereas OrbitTrace is for space enthusiast. This project is also my last hope to get the a1 mini 3D printer because it is getting hard to manage school and coding!
2h 27m 50s logged
Right now it is being a bit too much of a trial and error debugging for me. I did manage to get all the satellites being added on the earth textured globe. There are around 16,000 satellites. I have separate code which asks the API for the data and then that data gets parsed and then it converts it to TLE and which is then used in the main code to make those markers. Then I added search feature and while making that search feature I noticed that still the syncing of the latitude & longitude of the textured earth and the satellites is still a big problem. I can’t get it too sync with each other. I will be continuing to debug and lets see what happens. Thank you & stay tuned!
2h 27m 17s logged
In 2 hours I have worked on quite a few different things. Starting it off with a problem mentioned in the last devlog which was having the latitude and longitude of satellites matching that with the earth’s lat and lon. I have fixed that problem and it was quite a silly one because It the API which had me blocked for a temporary basis because I have requested a lot in a few amount of time. So, it was just no responding to the request and that is why the satellites where not appearing and stayed in the middle. Second I added a sliding panel for the satellite information in which I encountered a problem where I was using Raycaster and it detected every click rather than a specific satellite click so then I again did like trial and error process and got it to work at the end. Also created a new data folder so that the data for satellites stays separated from the main code. Next up I will be loading more of the satellites into the project. Thank you and stay tuned.
2h 19m 22s logged
Ok guys I have spent the time mostly getting the API working and gathering the TLE data which just means two line element data. I am currently getting data from CelesTrak and it is going quite good. I have also gotten the marker for the ISS on the globe. The part I am struggling with currently is the fact to sync the coordinates of the satellite with the earth and with the mouse movement. Currently I am trying many different things out like stopping the earth rotation and changing the camera location rather than the actual earth, just like trial and error. I have still not found a way to get this thing to work but I am continuing the trial and error process and will update about it in the next devlog. Thank you and stay tuned!
Plus sorry for late devlog as I can’t really focus on coding much as the school has started and all.
1h 29m 49s logged
Thank you so for the support for SkyTrace. That project got great votes and helped me get closer to my goal for an A1 Mini 3D Printer. After seeing the success of SkyTrace, I have decided to make OrbitTrace. SkyTrace = Aviation enthusiast whereas OrbitTrace = Space enthusiast.
For the progress I worked on making a globe, make it rotate, follow the direction of the and I have added stars. This process for me was fairly quick because I have previously made a globe for 3d flight tracking but let just say it didn’t go well. But I am back to making globes. Currently, I have planned to make it a satellite tracker but as usual it is not going to be that simple. I am going to add more unique features to as I did to SkyTrace. It might take me longer to post devlogs because now I have to manage studies and coding which is getting a bit harder, but I will ship this project. Thank you & stay tuned!
