{"id":1196,"date":"2018-02-23T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2018-02-23T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:03:26","slug":"orreries-and-fresnel-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Orreries and Fresnel Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking of creating an environment in Unreal 4 that has a collection of beautiful science gizmos in it. It is easy to imagine what this kind of room would look like, but I&#8217;m sure the process of creating and then animating each object (in game terminology, &#8220;asset&#8221;) would take hundreds of hours. 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