Orbit 3-dimention planet simulation

screenshot of the animation

Inspiration

I wanted to challenge myself in doing something new with three dimensional objects.

What it does

it is an animation of a planet with it's three moons in a space environment. It is intended to be a semi realistic space environment with the objects being illuminated by a distance star light source in a setting of the universe as a whole.

How we built it

I used p5.js in creating this and used its built in tools to create everything within my project. I used its build it tools in order to create a 3 dimensional planet and moons with depth in order to simulate the orbital paths of moons around a planet .I used its light and texture effects in order to accentuate the three dimensionality of the environment and give the simulation the life that it needs. I used its movement functions in order to create realistic orbits of the moons around the planet.

Challenges we ran into

It is the first time that I have have used the lighting, texture and #D functionality of p5.js so it was slow to learn how to correctly implement them. Tiredness also slowed down my progress.