Principal engineer • 20 years building software. Now building games, simulations & developer tools in public. Sharing the process. Stargate and Trek nerd.
Pretty insane that this was built in @threejs and runs in the browser
Got work to do to stabilise the relief but still feels really nice to use and just fly around and explore one side of the planet to the next
Next feature for 3dsolarsystem.online I've built in is being able to go to ground level on earth and then back out, with relief, also have buildings but going to take a while to get ground level looking really detailed and making it performant.
Need to work on improving the clouds when up close.
You can even leave the solar system, though my procedural planets need work.
The ISS crossing from day into night over the Arabian Sea at 12:46 UTC today, with India's west coast lit up ahead.
Running in a browser tab.
3dsolarsystem.online/viewer/…