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Assignment 7 - Solar System

CS 480/680

1.0 Team Members
Eric Klukovich – CS 680
Christine Johnson – CS 680
Thomas Rushton – CS 480

2.0 Running the program
1. Navigate to the "bin" folder.
2. Type "./SolarSystem"

3.0 Controls
3.1 Keyboard
Key

Description

w

Move Forward

a

Move Left

s

Move Backward

d

Move Right

q

Move Down

e

Move Up

i

Look Up

j

Roll Left

k

Look Down

l

Roll Right

u

Look Left

o

Look Right

+

Speed Up Movement

-

Slow Down Movement

ESC

Exit the Program

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Press keys 1-9 to follow a specific planet. Pressing a movement key will return the freemoving camera.

Key

Description

1

Mercury

2

Venus

3

Earth

4

Mars

5

Jupiter

6

Saturn

7

Uranus

8

Neptune

9

Pluto

3.2 Menu
To open the menu, press the mouse right-click button.

Menu Option

Description

Start Orbit

Resume all planets’ orbit

Stop Orbit

Pause all planets’ orbit

Change Scale

Switch between realistic and scaled views

Toggle Orbit Paths

Turn drawing orbit paths on or off

Quit

Exit the program

4.0 Extra Credit
4.1 Orbit paths
An arbitrary radius is used to create 360 points along the circumference of a circle. The
points are stored in a vertex buffer object and drawn using GL_DRAW_LINES. The
same circle model is rendered for each planet, but it is scaled according to each planet’s
distance from the sun.

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4.2 Change scale
Two data files are used to store different planet data; one set representing a realistic view,
and the other representing a scaled view. Depending on the file being read, different
operations are performed to store the data and update the movement of the planets.

4.3 Uranus rings
In addition to the rings on Saturn's model, rings were also added to the Uranus model.

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