Asteroids

[iemfi]

Asteroid mining has been big in the news lately. I'm thinking some sort of simple hard science asteroid mining game. I want all 600k known asteroids and the ability to zoom in and interact with each of them... Or something like that, what do you guys think?

Here's something I hacked together of all asteroids over 10km in diameter with the help of ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html. Mesmorizing, Just mind boggling how big space is!

[Nixola]

Is that white 5 at the top-left corner the FPS counter?

[kikito]

I want all 600k known asteroids and the ability to zoom in and interact with each of them... Or something like that, what do you guys think?

600k is very ambitious. I think the number you have now is enough for doing lots of stuff. You can probably still trim it down a bit. But well done!

[Jasoco]

Is that white 5 at the top-left corner the FPS counter?

No. The number stays at 5 for some reason no matter what. It runs much smoother and faster in LuaJIT. Does this use DT? I guess I should look at the code.

Edit: Haha.. I found the problem..

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love.graphics.print(5,5,love.timer.getFPS())

Guess where the problem lies.

[Nixola]

Probably, it won't change so much on my PC

[josefnpat]

Is that white 5 at the top-left corner the FPS counter?

No. The number stays at 5 for some reason no matter what. It runs much smoother and faster in LuaJIT. Does this use DT? I guess I should look at the code.

Edit: Haha.. I found the problem..

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love.graphics.print(5,5,love.timer.getFPS())

Guess where the problem lies.

Now there's a mistake I'd be happy to make, although with a little modification:

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love.graphics.print(60,5,love.timer.getFPS())