Geography Tools

I'm thinking about trying to make a GUI based tool for creating EoC maps. I know Grandpatrout has created a tool that works from spreadsheets - I'm using it's source as an example, although I intend to work in Java rather than C.

Is anyone else working on this? - there's not a lot of point starting if someone else is halfway there.

How do people think this stuff should be displayed? I'm considering two views of a star system.
The first shows it as a tree, representing the parent-child relationships.
The second would show the spatial relationships, or at least a flattened version of them.

Any comments or suggestions welcome.
I have no idea how long this will take me, so don't get your hopes up of having anything usable any time soon.

No one else is working on that. But it's something everyone's been wanting for years.

Good luck! If I knew Java I'd try to help.



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I've built a random map generator, and documented additional features of G-Trout's geog SDK package. I've also partially coded a non-graphical map generator that will construct completed maps and Lightwave scene files (without LW), as well as give you their accompanying csv's (for additional editing). Let me know if I can be of any help.

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That's interesting - it might be more use if I build tool to produce inputs for your tool second chance. Would you mind letting me see the documentation?

How do people think this stuff should be displayed? I'm considering two views of a star system.
The first shows it as a tree, representing the parent-child relationships.
The second would show the spatial relationships, or at least a flattened version of them.

I would use three views actually. One would be the hierarchy (sp?) tree, and the other two would be top and side spatial views. That way, it would be much easier to visualize a system that isn't flat. Make sure the top view would line up with what is seen on the EoC starmap. I don't remember what dimensions it shows but I don't think it's x and y. (x and z maybe?)

Sounds good Unheard Of (haven't I heard of you before? ). The Star Wars MP mod is taking up a pretty good chunk of my time at the moment, but give me a chance to put some stuff together for you and we'll see where we stand. (I haven't documented my coded stuff very well.)

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