Processing Planet Generator

Simple planet surface generator made in Processing.

How to..

..use Processing

• Download Processing at https://processing.org/download/
• Install and Run the executable in the installation folder
• Open planetgen/planetgen.pde
• Run

..use the planet generator

Hotkeys

• 'h' - show/hide help
• 'z' - enable/disable random planet sizes
• 'q' - scale up
• 'a' - scale down
• 'e' - raise max size
• 'd' - lower max size
• SPACEBAR - reconstruct
• 'g' - enable/disable spotlight mode
• 'w' - double star count
• 's' - halve star count

Good to know

• Planet size calculation: (size * 16) - 1
• When random planet size is enabled, planets are given a random size variable between 1 and max size (this number will be the input in the calculation above)
  • When disabled, all planets are given max size as their size
• spotlight mode generates nebula, starry background and only one planet in the middle of the screen
  • Each star's brightness is a random value between (0-255)
  • Nebula are yet to be customized
• Note that scaling down too much might affect performance

Examples

Contribution

Feel free to leave improvement ideas and report bugs!