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Title: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Skullar on October 06, 2009, 10:46:12 am

It took me 4 days to create a STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY. Basically a mission featuring ONLY the player ship, without any action whatsoever ;)

It recreates the terran nightsky 29.000 km above Earth's north pole on December 23rd, with correct sizes for Earth, sun, moon. It includes milky way, correct positions of about 200 stars, a simulated HUD-computer identifying objects and star constellations in reticle, and providing database information about astronomie, and I embedded the space synphony music score from the game HOMEWORLD.

Now, even if you don't like the experience, you may appreciate the most realistic background setup for a planet in the sol system :)

The Cartography is basically ready and OK as it is, but I just want to make some minor improvements to the databank, if someone is interested I can upload an thursday.

Stellar Cartography (http://fubar.org/TBP/Skullar/stellar_cartography.rar) download here.

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: captain-custard on October 06, 2009, 11:09:41 am

interested !!!!!!!

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Herra Tohtori on October 06, 2009, 11:14:42 am

This is relevant to my interests as well.

Did you actually put the planets as 3d objects into the game or is it an elaborate skybox using pre-rendered imagery?

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: emi_100 on October 06, 2009, 03:29:54 pm

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interested !!!!!!!

idem

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: carbine7 on October 06, 2009, 08:08:48 pm

Sounds great, yeah you should definately put it up thursday. Useful distraction form homework if nothing else.

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Aardwolf on October 06, 2009, 09:16:08 pm

IMO this could potentially be useful/of interest to non-TBP people as well. Move to modding?

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Skullar on October 07, 2009, 10:28:27 am

I created some very small stars as background tgas ( usable just like nebulas ),

You place them with background editor, the real sky coordinates translate like this :

P : 360-Rectascension
H : 0
B : Declination

with x- and y-scale you can make em as small as one of the stars in the starfield skybox, but other values make them slightly brighter :)

So far I use a
neb_star
neb_star-red ( for red giants )

and 1 or 2 additional nebulae .

The milky way is set up with the already implemented neb_dull6 and neb_dull8, which - correctly placed - do quite fine.
I have to research the exact planet coordinates for my specific date, but they will be there.

I will add the planets as well, but they are just dots ( as they would be if you really were up in the sky ), so you will actually look at the database entries for images...

Most of the work goes into the databank. Its a computer monitor slightly bigger than the Comm-monitor ( which isnt used anyway ) and in its place. A fully working databank with lots of info to browse through.

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Skullar on October 08, 2009, 07:41:30 am

****. Cant upload, seem to have no server access any longer....

Uhm. will send to emails on request, perhaps someone can put an upload somewhere if wanted.
has about 5MB

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on October 08, 2009, 08:04:25 am

FSMods?

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: captain-custard on October 08, 2009, 11:26:23 am

i can upload it if needed aswell, so if you have time please email it to me

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 08, 2009, 02:21:23 pm

Send me a copy.  I can put it up for D/L and if it's ready we can get it on the next DVD. 

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: emi_100 on October 10, 2009, 12:44:09 am

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Send me a copy

I want one please =)

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: Skullar on October 10, 2009, 11:55:45 am

"Send me a copy" ? to [email protected] ?

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: captain-custard on October 10, 2009, 12:14:21 pm

send me a copy to click my mail icon and pick one ... or [email protected]

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 10, 2009, 03:37:04 pm

Now nobody else needs to ask:  Stellar Cartography (http://fubar.org/TBP/Skullar/stellar_cartography.rar) download.

Title: Re: TBP Stellar Cartography
Post by: CKid on October 12, 2009, 07:44:33 am

Wow, I must say, that was very cool. Great choice of music.