Need help for Procedural Generation of a Galaxy / Planets / Terrain

Hello,

I am new to Unity and a C# coder from my school.

I'm looking to get everything who can help me to prepare my future project.

I plan to prepare later a Space MMO Real Time Strategy game with galaxy and planets procedurally generated when player is active on a defined zone. Data will be get from SQL Server.

I found some informations over internet, google and some explanations in Unity Forums or Q/A page but nothing that really make a good start point. And I feel a little lost for the moment cause I'm new.

For you ta have a better idea of what I would like to do, you can check :

this simple example : http://www.wow-zen.com/celestial/index.html
to finally got something looking like that : http://youtu.be/fO7XhaTGDYg?hd=1

The point is :

- Each system got one or many suns
- Planets, moons going around a sun
- Also like real univers, planets turn from their center, comets, meteor.
- All light points in the sky refer to a real system existing in the database (no star background)
- No loading screen when changing system, when approaching a system, planets, sun, moons, etc... gets visible
- No loading between space and planet transition
- ...

Another example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-lsyo28SU

I don't explain all my project here cause it's not ready yet I just got some ideas about how we will moving inside the game (views), etc.. but if you got anything who can help me, start points, tutorials, documentations, blogs, code examples, ... anything, that would be great.

Here is all I have found already, but as I said, no real start point :

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/43176/procedural-planets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation
http://entitycrisis.blogspot.com/
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/37712-A-realistic-huge-and-open-space-environment
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/51098/procedural-generated-galaxy
http://www.cheshirequark.org/?p=145&cpage=1#comment-40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Th2BlQsj4
http://spaceengine.org/index/video/0-7
http://sponeil.net/
http://sponeil.net/links.htm
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3377/algorithms_for_an_infinite_universe.php
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348321/mathematical-question-procedural-generation-of-a-galaxy
http://dmytry.com/galaxy/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxDVzby_XU
http://evasion.inrialpes.fr/~Eric.Bruneton/demo.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/ebruneton#p/u/0/ggLYTGLS1tk

... and maybe some I have forgot.

Thanks for any help.

 

Bump!

Nobody using Unity Procedural Generation ?

 

Many specialists around as I see

Normally there are some projects using it.

Like BattleStar Galaktika or Gemini wars.


Anyway, they doesn't have read me here ^^

 

Hey Cool!

 

Listen.

You are NEVER going to be able to make something as good as that Infinity tech demo.

You might be able to procedurally generate a galaxy, but never space-to-planet seamless transition too...

 

You're wrong... (little late i know, just wanted you to know how wrong you are...)

 

I can see this one being a problem. You'd seriously calculate and draw several thousand stars in real-time?