Question For Developers. Motion.

[Lankspeed]

Motion of Objects in the Game.

The Station seem to move in there orbits around the planetry bodies as they should do.

Do the Planets move in there orbits about the stars. Or is that fixed. The Time period for some would be greater than others of course.

On from that do the Stars move within the universe, which of course they do in real life.

You understand what I am asking. Trying to understand the modeling behind ELITE D.

Thanks Lankspeed.

 

[VanQ]

Stations orbit, planets as well. Stars dont move (most of them move so slow that the diference whouild be margial in the lifetime of this game)

 

[Alex Brentnall]

From my experience all objects within a system that have yellow orbit lines move. This may or may not include the stars as some don't orbit.
Evidenced by eclipses of stations, planets, RES sites etc.

Systems in the galaxy map do not move, or at least not any noticeable distance.

It all seems to move at roughly the right speeds, find an asteroid belt and the inside RES may move above 30km/s (minimum supercruise speed) whereas a RES on the outer ring won't. I sort of discovered that there is an active distance where your ship is considered part of the rotation or not (out of supercruise) so if you are not "in" the asteroid field you find it impossible to keep up with the RES rotation even with boosting.


Anyone feel free to correct me but I think this is the case.

 

[B33 ENN]

Do the Planets move in there orbits about the stars. Or is that fixed. The Time period for some would be greater than others of course.

I can't speak as a developer, but from observation of my frequent RES sites, yes, the planets rotate and also orbit, because the sun sets and the planet seems to be in different positions on different days relative to the one who's station you travel from, and the position of the sun. But I haven't done a careful study or anything to actually track this because I've taken for granted.

 

[Lankspeed]

I can't speak as a developer, but from observation of my frequent RES sites, yes, the planets rotate and also orbit, because the sun sets and the planet seems to be in different positions on different days relative to the one who's station you travel from, and the position of the sun. But I haven't done a careful study or anything to actually track this because I've taken for granted.

that was my impression the point of this thread was to get a diffinitive answer. Which I think now have, I was curious as I am an Amateur Astronomer.

Regards Lankspeed.

 

[Mu77ley]

Stations orbit, planets as well. Stars dont move (most of them move so slow that the diference whouild be margial in the lifetime of this game)

The main stars in systems don't orbit round the galaxy, but in multi-star systems, binary stars, etc. do orbit around each other:

[video=youtube;UBeMqJL4uFE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBeMqJL4uFE[/video]

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that was my impression the point of this thread was to get a diffinitive answer. Which I think now have, I was curious as I am an Amateur Astronomer.

Regards Lankspeed.

Search YouTube for "Elite Dangerous Time lapse"

Loads of cool footage showing orbits, etc.

For example:

[video=youtube;qFW3tkUK6iU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFW3tkUK6iU[/video]

[video=youtube;fFJbK5Ryygw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJbK5Ryygw[/video]

 

[Lankspeed]

Thanks for that will do just that, the you tube that is.

Lankspeed.