Adjust lighting, physics, and visual settings for improved gameplay

Increase asteroid sizes, add ship-specific lighting, enhance sun brightness, adjust physics timesteps, and improve planet/asteroid material appearance. Increase planet count to 12 and move them farther from sun for better spatial layout.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/createPlanets.ts

@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ export function createPlanets(
 
         // Apply random planet texture
         const material = new StandardMaterial(`planet-material-${i}`, DefaultScene.MainScene);
-        material.diffuseTexture = new Texture(getRandomPlanetTexture(), DefaultScene.MainScene);
-        planet.material = material;
-        material.specularColor = Color3.Black()
+        const texture  = new Texture(getRandomPlanetTexture(), DefaultScene.MainScene);
+        material.diffuseTexture = texture;
+        material.ambientTexture = texture;
 
         planets.push(planet);
     }

src/createSun.ts

@@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ import {FireProceduralTexture} from "@babylonjs/procedural-textures";
 
 export function createSun() : AbstractMesh {
     const light = new PointLight("light", new Vector3(0, 0, 400), DefaultScene.MainScene);
-    light.intensity = 100;
+    light.intensity = 1000000;
+
     const sun = MeshBuilder.CreateSphere("sun", {diameter: 50, segments: 32}, DefaultScene.MainScene);
 
     //const sunAggregate = new PhysicsAggregate(sun, PhysicsShapeType.SPHERE, {mass: 0}, DefaultScene.MainScene);
     //sunAggregate.body.setMotionType(PhysicsMotionType.STATIC);
     const material = new StandardMaterial("material", DefaultScene.MainScene);
-    material.emissiveTexture =new FireProceduralTexture("fire", 512, DefaultScene.MainScene);
+    material.emissiveTexture =new FireProceduralTexture("fire", 1024, DefaultScene.MainScene);
     material.emissiveColor = new Color3(.5, .5, .1);
     material.disableLighting = true;
     sun.material = material;

src/level1.ts

@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ export class Level1 implements Level {
                 return {
                     rockCount: 5,
                     forceMultiplier: 1,
-                    rockSizeMin: 5,
-                    rockSizeMax: 10,
+                    rockSizeMin: 10,
+                    rockSizeMax: 20,
                     distanceMin: 150,
                     distanceMax: 200
                 };
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ export class Level1 implements Level {
             const distRange = config.distanceMax - config.distanceMin;
             const dist = (Math.random() * distRange) + config.distanceMin;
             const sizeRange = config.rockSizeMax - config.rockSizeMin;
-            const size = Vector3.Random(1,1.3).scale(Math.random() * sizeRange + config.rockSizeMin)
+            const size = Vector3.One().scale(Math.random() * sizeRange + config.rockSizeMin)
 
             const rock = await RockFactory.createRock(i, new Vector3(0,1,dist),
                 size,
@@ -251,12 +251,12 @@ export class Level1 implements Level {
         // Create planets around the sun
         const sunPosition = sun.position;
         const planets = createPlanetsOrbital(
-            8,              // 8 planets
+            12,              // 8 planets
             sunPosition,    // sun position
-            50,             // min diameter
-            100,            // max diameter
-            400,            // min distance from sun
-            1000            // max distance from sun
+            100,             // min diameter
+            200,            // max diameter
+            1000,            // min distance from sun
+            2000            // max distance from sun
         );
 
         console.log(`Created ${planets.length} planets around sun at position`, sunPosition);

src/main.ts

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ export class Main {
         }
         DefaultScene.DemoScene = new Scene(this._engine);
         DefaultScene.MainScene = new Scene(this._engine);
-        DefaultScene.MainScene.ambientColor = new Color3(.2, .2, .2);
+        DefaultScene.MainScene.ambientColor = new Color3(.5, .5, .5);
 
         setLoadingMessage("Initializing Physics Engine..");
         await this.setupPhysics();
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ export class Main {
         const havokPlugin = new HavokPlugin(true, havok);
 
         DefaultScene.MainScene.enablePhysics(new Vector3(0, 0, 0), havokPlugin);
-        DefaultScene.MainScene.getPhysicsEngine().setTimeStep(1/90);
-        DefaultScene.MainScene.getPhysicsEngine().setSubTimeStep(9);
+        DefaultScene.MainScene.getPhysicsEngine().setTimeStep(1/45);
+        DefaultScene.MainScene.getPhysicsEngine().setSubTimeStep(5);
 
         DefaultScene.MainScene.collisionsEnabled = true;
     }

src/ship.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
     Observable,
     PhysicsAggregate,
     PhysicsMotionType,
-    PhysicsShapeType,
+    PhysicsShapeType, PointLight,
     SceneLoader,
     SpotLight,
     StandardMaterial,
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export class Ship {
         this._ammoBaseMesh.material = this._ammoMaterial;
         this._ammoBaseMesh.setEnabled(false);
 
-        //const light = new DirectionalLight("light", new Vector3(.1, -1, 0), DefaultScene.MainScene);
+
 
         //const landingLight = new SpotLight("landingLight", new Vector3(0, 0, 0), new Vector3(0, -.5, .5), 1.5, .5, DefaultScene.MainScene);
        // landingLight.parent = this._ship;
@@ -201,7 +201,15 @@ export class Ship {
         shipMesh.rotation.y = Math.PI;
         shipMesh.position.y = 1;
         shipMesh.position.z = -1;
-
+        const light = new PointLight("ship.light", new Vector3(0, 1, .9), DefaultScene.MainScene);
+        light.intensity = 4;
+        light.includedOnlyMeshes = [shipMesh];
+        for (const mesh of shipMesh.getChildMeshes()) {
+            if (mesh.material.id.indexOf('glass') === -1) {
+                light.includedOnlyMeshes.push(mesh);
+            }
+        }
+        light.parent = this._ship;
         DefaultScene.MainScene.getMaterialById('glass_mat.002').alpha = .4;
     }
 

src/starfield.ts

@@ -61,12 +61,17 @@ export class RockFactory {
                 this._rockMaterial.id = 'asteroid-material';
                 const material = (this._rockMaterial as PBRMaterial)
                 //material.albedoTexture = null;
-                material.ambientColor = new Color3(.4, .4 ,.4);
+                //material.ambientColor = new Color3(.4, .4 ,.4);
+                material.albedoColor = new Color3(.4, .4 ,.4);
+                //material.ambientTexture = material.albedoTexture;
+
+
+
                 //material.albedoColor = new Color3(1, 1, 1);
                 //material.emissiveColor = new Color3(1, 1, 1);
                 this._rockMesh.material = this._rockMaterial;
-                importMesh.meshes[1].dispose(false, true);
-                importMesh.meshes[0].dispose();
+                //importMesh.meshes[1].dispose(false, true);
+                //importMesh.meshes[0].dispose();
             }
         }
     }