Solar System Instruction Manual
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Assignment 7 - Solar System CS 480/680
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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 free-
moving 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.
