Starfield Simulator - Small Basic Featured Program

[Ed Price]

First published on MSDN on Aug 31, 2013

Authored by Ed Price

It's time to feature a new program!

Florian Auer created this Starfield Simulator:

JJS099

Florian's profile image:

You can increase/decrease the speed with the UP/DOWN key up to 60. And if you get to 31, then you enter hyperspace! And don't go to 51 if you have epilepsy! =^)

And in this version, bigdaddyo made a tweak:

JJS099-0

bigdaddyo added just two lines of code, so that the stars move slowly from the center and speed up

as they pass you:

' Original code 'star_x[i] = star_x[i] +
Math.Round(speed * (star_x[i] / distance))

' star_y[i] = star_y[i] +
Math.Round(speed * (star_y[i] / distance))

' Modified code star_x[i] = star_x[i] + speed
* star_x[i] * distance

* 0.0001 star_y[i] = star_y[i] + speed
* star_y[i] * distance * 0.0001

Let Florian know what you think in this Small Basic forum thread::

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1052bae6-0f44-4e43-8ce0-c063c8d56182/starfi...

As LitDev mentions in that thread, Florian's program runs so smoothly because it is well structured with arrays and subroutines.

Thanks to Florian and BigDaddyO!

- Ninja Ed