Procedural Generation of Asteroids

[VivaLebowski]

Asteroids should be randomly and procedural generated sets of the currently existing asteroids, ranging from 5 to 20 or so pieces.

[ssmith151]

There is a usable toy script in the steve branch under the debug scene for mesh generation that will let you :

• generate a 3D asteroid within a settable width and height
• control the fill percentage of that asteroid
• add minerals to the asteroid
• provide the user with a gizmo outline of all the elements going into the generation
• destroy the asteroid piece by piece with the mouse

TODOs add a set of functions that determines the surrounding pieces to bring the borders to 0 plane and 'break' the object into smaller objects when the surrounding pieces are no longer contiguous. move the toy object to its own class so that it can inherit from gameobject add functionality so that 'resources' may be gained from the object add a database so that the object generation will come from a set of parameters(tiers of ore, color, etc) attach a binary formatter that will 'save' the objects generated get nicks input and desired changes to keep asteroid within the scope of the intended game