Working in progress…
Realistic Celestial Position of the Planets
I haven’t been here for a while, but the work is still behind the scenes. I am working on the development of Pixel Painter, the next version of Azure and also planning new features for 3D Tilemap System .
For the next version of Azure, each component will work as an independent system, for example, the time controller will be responsible for managing everything related to time, date, sun and moon rotations and events (the current event system will be integrated to the time controller system). That way the user will have the choice to use only the components that are needed and remove the others to save performance or even use only one component for a given task.
The time controller will also come with a new feature that calculates the realistic celestial position of the planets in the sky from Earth’s perspective based on time, date and location. Below is a comparison between the result achieved with Azure and that shown on the Solar System Scope website using the same time and location.
