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Topic: StarmapJS: an interactive Star Control 2 starmap. (Read 16261 times)
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Megagun
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Here's something I've been working on for a while: a Star Control 2 starmap, rendered and searchable in the browser!
You can try it out here. The project is also on GitHub here.
Everything should be pretty self-explanatory. Use the search box to search for alien homeworlds, stars, or the location of devices. Click on a star to display some additional data about the planets orbiting that star (courtesy of Elestan's planetary database). Several star highlighters are available that highlight stars with a neat pulsating animation.
Enjoy!
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Dezeer
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You should bring Vela in front of Zeeman.
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Just found a mistake on the map. It lists Beta Vulpeculae II as the Androsynth homeworld. The actual Androsynth homeworld is Eta Vulpeculae I.
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How do I download this for offline use without a browser?
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Megagun
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I would suggest that when zooming, the size of the stars should remain constant, and just the distance between them should change. That way, you can zoom into tightly packed star clusters like Vulpeculae to see the individual stars more easily.
Good idea. I'll keep that in mind, but I'll probably do it in such a way that stars will still get bigger as you zoom in, only the rate at which they get bigger when you zoom in gets lower the more zoomed-in you are.
As a firefox user I can't pan or zoom or anything, but I do think it is a very pretty map and nice work.
Yep, that was a known issue. It has also been fixed.
Just found a mistake on the map. It lists Beta Vulpeculae II as the Androsynth homeworld. The actual Androsynth homeworld is Eta Vulpeculae I.
Whoops. Fixed.
How do I download this for offline use without a browser?
Grab a .zip off of the GitHub page or clone my repo, then open index.html in your favorite browser. This currently works just fine, because I don't make any XHR calls and all starmap data is static. I can't however guarantee that this method will continue to work in the future.
EDIT: if you actually meant "without a browser": you can't.
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« Last Edit: April 11, 2012, 10:30:05 pm by Megagun »
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Defender
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I'm no that familiar with java, but I have a couple programs written in it that do not require a "browser" to work. They can be executed offline. Can this be adapted to this map so that it could be ran offline? A executable .jar file is what they are.
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