Question

I am building a 3D simulation.

I am using one class to display sun, planets & moon with different size, texture, speed and orbit. Here’s my code which does the magic job of calculating rotation + revolution

world = Matrix.CreateScale(size,size,size) * Matrix.CreateTranslation(0,0,0) * 
 Matrix.CreateRotationY(rotation) * 
 Matrix.CreateTranslation(position) * 
 Matrix.CreateRotationY(revolution); 

• size is my variable to scale the object individually
• rotation is my variable to rotate the object around its own axis
• position is my variable to position the planet on orbit, new Vector3(240,0,0)
• revolution is my variable to revolve the planet around the origin

now i want the display the moons around earth and around other planets but i just can’t figure out how to do it. In terms of Matrix Multiplication.

The complication is the moon’s revolution is around a planet which is not on origin and is always changing.

How to do it ?

Answer 1

i figured it out…

Translate The Origin to the Parent planet’s Current Location

and keep doing it in the update method

world = Matrix.CreateScale(size,size,size)
        * Matrix.CreateTranslation(0,0,0) 
        * Matrix.CreateRotationY(rotation)
        * Matrix.CreateTranslation(position)
        * Matrix.CreateRotationY(revolution); 

world *= Matrix.CreateTranslation( parent.getPosition() );

what i am doing here is that i m revolving the moon around the origin (Sun) but i translate its origin to any planet’s current location… this worked for me.