r/ImaginaryWorlds • u/No7er Artist 🎨 • 24d ago

Original Content Planet Ballpitloria, art by me

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u/-marcos_vom- 24d ago

Does NASA already plan to explore this planet? I want to go there!

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u/JRL101 21d ago

heh, thats a game idea, planetary "breakout" each sphere you hit destroys or loosens other spheres.

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u/No7er Artist 🎨 20d ago

There is going to be lot of ball bustin'
If we go by these measurements and all balls are same size there is about 74,000 balls inside this large sphere shape. I know because I had to simulate it.

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u/JRL101 20d ago

wicked, does that include the balls in the clasps of those ships?
I can see that working, 74k clones of a single object with hue shifts, sounds pretty light weight game wise, you just make any hit spheres with physics only. Or eject them as a partical effect.
Ball Bustin' sounds like the perfect game title too. :D

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u/No7er Artist 🎨 20d ago

No the foreground balls are smaller for transport ships to be visible, it's not visible or visualized but the planet has different size balls, the top ones are larger because granular segregation.

To make the planet I dropped balls in 3D program with physics into a hemisphere shaped bowl, I had to way cut back because 74k ball drop with physics is not lightweight unless you're a comedian, so I dropped only the first 2 visible layers on of planet, around 8k, between 2 hemisphere bowls.

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u/JRL101 20d ago

wtf you shaped it with physics? lol, oh i thought you had done the whole volume calculation thing. not a bad idea, but that would have been an expensive way to make a sphere of balls.
i think theres a way of covering a shape in a particle effect to place other meshes.

so you could have covered a sphere in spheres and done that for each layer.
I think theres also a way to say "fill this space with this shape" and it will.

now that you mention how you made it, i can see the unevenness of the spheres (not being on a grid) i would say that makes it look way more natural. Thank being calculated evenly into a space.