Re: software tool for mapping a 3D galaxy?

From: "Greg Ellis" <gnellis@ifn.net>

Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Incubus wrote in message <3703abe7.1370260@news.casema.net>...
>Hi Ed,
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>
>Pass it on to me if you find something.....I've been searching since
>the beginning for such a tool :-)
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>C U
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>Peter
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>>Does anyone out there know a good software package that can be used for
>>mapping a galaxy of stars?  I'm playing in a space opera type PBEM game
that
>>in which the playing area (galaxy, quadrant, whatever) is mapped in three
>>dimensions, X, Y, and Z.  I've been maintaing a star map in Excel
>>spreadsheets, but I know there has to be something out there better suited
>>to the task.  Is there any software that has been specifically designed
for
>>this?
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>>Thanks in advance!
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>Greetz,
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>Peter
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>www.casema.net/~pbragt
>The Official PBEM Star Empires Homepage!

Do a web search for 3D star mappers. This should get you the address for
Nyrath's 3D Starmapping page. Barring that, surf by my website and check out
the links page (which has Nyrath's page listed). Nyrath (aka Winchell Chung)
has a number of tools specifically for designing and mapping various regions
of the galaxy in 3D.

For FOTS, I've often thought of doing the mapping in 3D through the use of
"levels" where each level is 1 sector away fom each other. My mapping
utility would allow this to be handled easily and with a minmum of fuss and
bother, but currently it has not been adapted into Fire On The Suns.

My own current 2D mapping utility will map out any size are you need, but
the accomanying data file can be enormous (on the order of 300+ MB for an
area 8000 light years on each side (2D scale of course) and I usually
discard it myself (as I haven't yet found a nifty way of exporting all this
data to Access in a usable format - probably due to the way the data is
output which needs work).

Anyway, talk to Nyrath, or surf by my webpage and see what is available.

Thanks,
Greg Ellis
Ellis & Company Publishing

Fire On The Suns
A Sea Of Stars

References

software tool for mapping a 3D galaxy?
"Ed Davies" <e_davies@earthlink.net>
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: software tool for mapping a 3D galaxy?
pbragt@casema.net (Incubus)
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000