Galaxy Generator

Project can be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dcVozLVpAkVZXFcQzmZqSkgmSrbaRZ2S?usp=sha...

This project started out by creating a single star (a sphere with a moving material) and slowly transformed that into generating planets that orbited around the star. Once I got that fully working, I pretty quickly realized that the procedural solar systems could fill an entire procedural galaxy and so I added logic to create thousands of stars that you could travel to.

I think what I love the most about this project is that when you look at the sky, every star that you see, is an actual star you can go and travel to. There is no skybox, it's a true if you can see it you can go to it. 

I had ideas for creating a "Gray Goo" nanoswarm that would devour planets, and you can see the early idea there as you click on planets and they will slowly get eaten. As I started to get deeper into adding gameplay, alien races, resource types for planets, then the scope quickly blew out of proportion and so I decided to save the project in the current state.