What's up with Video Game Solar Systems?

This is a video comparing how the solar systems work in two of my favourite games: Kerbal space Program and Outer Wilds.

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Kerbal Space Program is a space-flight rocket-building simulator. Outer Wilds is an exploration/mystery game. They are very much not alike! Except they are: because they are both in space. In this video I will yap about their similarities and their differences in terms of technical challenges and implementation of orbital physics.

I made an effort to be at least 30% less monotone in this video was that noticeable in any way

Contents:
0:00 - Intro
2:13 - Part 1 - Precision
3:02 - Floating origin
3:56 - Distant objects
5:07 - Rendering
6:47 - Part 2 - Physics
9:36 - Outro

I used a bunch of mods for Outer Wilds b-roll those were uh:
Freecam by nebula and me
New Horizons by me and a million other people
Real Solar System
Third person camera by me
All those are on outer wilds mods dot com

To get Unity Explorer running in KSP really easily I used the universal mod manager Rai Pal: https://raicuparta.com/rai-pal

Here's that great KSP talk I mentioned in the video:    • Unite 2013 - Building a new universe in Ke...