GribbleGrunger said:
JoeTheBro said:
The planets are all bunched up in the same place. It's a huge play area, but it's not covering an entire solar system. IE planets are never on the opposite side of the sun.
The sun itself is really just a standard video game sun that's part of the skybox. In one stream a player spent a long time trying to fly towards it but made no progress. However things started glitching out a bit, probably from floating point imprecision. That's a good sign that nothing exists farther out. So the skybox sun revolves around the whole play area giving every planet an identical 24 minute day and none of the planets move.
It proves the planet isn't spinning. Since the planet still experiences a day night transition though, it means either the planet orbits the sun every 24 minutes or the sun orbits the planet every 24 minutes.
Since all planets experience 24 minute days and all planets stay grouped up in the same area, the conclusion I came to is that the sun orbits them. This probably only happens while in the planet atmosphere. Otherwise you'd see the sun flying around like crazy while in space.
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The sun being too far away to reach is actually proof that the planets are rotating. It would have to move faster than a speeding bullet to produce a day and night cycle on a planet if it was indeed the sun moving and not the planet. Here are the reasons I know they still rotate. We'll get the obious one out of the way first:
1: Sean Murray designed it that way.
2: The IGN video was released specifically to show how the rotating planets create night and day cycles
3: If it was the sun rotating around the planet it would have to move faster than a speeding bullet, as I mentioned above.
4: You posted the IGN video to prove it's been removed so I'd then assume if you saw a day and night cycle on a planet that would prove it's still there.
5: When people finally leave the planet, moons, other planets and space stations are not where they thought they were because the planet has moved.
The planets still rotate.
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1: Things change during development.
2: Yes it was, but that video clearly showed it didn't.
3: The sun is "infinitely" far away. Almost every videogame does the sun this way. It's not a problem.
4: Yes if I saw a video with the stars moving at night, that'd prove the planets spin. Honestly I'd love if you could find one since I'd much prefer functioning solar systems.
5: Sean talked about that in an interview, but has any leaked footage showed that? It seems like this changed during development.
If the planets still spin that's great, and if they still orbit that'd be even better.
