Quadrant Map Finished!

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

I've got very detailed and accurate SW map from nav-computer.com and have overlayed a 60x60 grid. This has given me a very acurate coordinate system for all the stars on the map!

Makes things easy to make a truely HUGE map. This mod will have Lots of systems. and shouldn't take too long to get ready either.

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Careful; SF maps are 60x56.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Oh. Despite what it says in the SF pdf manual? I think that's fine. Thanks

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Well, I was testing positioning, and I got a system in the bottom right corner with the following settings:

System Xloc := 59
System Yloc := 55

(with the offsets at the top set to one)

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

This is for all you lurkers snooping in on what's going on. We're looking at a Quadrant map of just under 200 systems!! Probably around 180-ish. That part is nearing completion then testing of the map begins.

Combat_Wombat · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Location: Minnesota

sweet that huge for starfury Smile

this mod is sounding better and better

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

I have no idea where I got that number of systems from... I did some more work on it during my lunch break and I'm up to 216 systems already. Probably going to be closer to 300 by the time I'm done.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Grand total is 345 systems. In case anyone is curious, this is the SW map with the 60x60 grid overlay that I used to plot all the systems. Nearly all are away from the edges and those that aren't I've moved in slightly so they should all fit.

Now comes the hard part... the warp lines!

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Have you loaded tho 60x60 map in-game yet? I don't think it will work right...

CaptainKwok · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

345 is a lot of systems. Why not go with 100 or so of the more recognized ones and save yourself some serious time and effort? Shocked

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Because that's boring? All you need to do is specify a quadrant file and use the SF random map generator. It will make the campaign data file and all of the system files. Then you can just tweax the dozen or so systems that have knomn features (Hoth, Yavin, Tatooine, etc). Accuracy of random systems isn't that much of a concern, methinks.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Exactly!! If we're gonna do a SW mod it's gotta be BIG!.

and, Fyron, speaking of maps.... (hint hint) Wink

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

CaptainKwok · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

Alright fine. I guess I'm still stuck in the old SE:IV mindset. Razz

Combat_Wombat · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Location: Minnesota

alright instead of warppoints you should have hyperspace lanes

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

what I'm doing now is putting the color of the systems not by the controling faction but by their location (Outer Rim, Inner Rim, Deep Core, etc). Then I'm going to color the Warp lines based on the trade routes in SW. Those systems along the major trade routes will have more warp connections between them than other distant systems. That parts gonna take some work but shouldn't be too difficult.

I hope....

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Been trying to test the map now but I keep getting a range check error. have very little idea of what I can do about this...

I'd love some suggestions...

Atrocities · Shipyard Guru Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Location: PNW

I would not know. I used to get a lot of RCE's when using the mapping tool so I bagged it. Sorry to hear its happening to you now. Sad

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

first thing I'm going to do is check the edge systems. If that doesn't fix it, I'm going to break the file into smaller pieces (say 80 systems at a time) and see if I can track down if there is a specific part causing the problem.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Fixed!! And works fine now. Big, Really big.

Now onto the next part...

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Well, here is a JPG of what the galaxy map looks like with the warp lines added. Still need to spread them out a bit but that can be done later.

CaptainKwok · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject:

Wow.

You won't have to make any adjustments to the warp points when you spread the systems out?

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Warp points connect systems by ID.

Atrocities · Shipyard Guru Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Location: PNW

Holly crap!

Combat_Wombat · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Location: Minnesota

Wowza!