There is an amazing Traveller Map API available out there. Specifically, there’s a service that will produce a PDF based on your UWP list. But you know how it is. I bet half the Traveller referees are trying to code up subsector generators and mappers. Me too!
Here’s my SVG Mapper for Traveller. It comes with example data so you can figure out what format it expects by looking at it. Just click the Submit button! Remember, you need a browser that knows how to deal with SVG files – Firefox will do.
Source code is available. I got to reuse some of my abandoned Old School Hex Mapper. And figuring out the trigonometry stuff is fun. 😄
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Very nice! 😃
It looks very nice, and has a simple interface. This is a very good tool to quickly make a subsector.
You are very generous to release this with the GNU General Public License. This means that I might use it together with my random subsectror generator (that is also written in perl).
I have been thinking of doing my own mapper, (other than the ascii one I have made). My plan was to use GD or ImageMagick.
– BeRKA 2009-09-11 05:51 UTC
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Heh. I come from a FreeSoftware background. Sharing’s the ethical thing to do. ;)
Is your random subsector generator based on the Mongoose rules, or are they the same as for previous editions? I noticed that the generator I had used for my subsector produced strange trade codes and had to write a Perl script to fix them.
Also, Mongoose Traveller doesn’t say how UWP codes for the various based look like. They just provide Scout and Navy as examples. Do you know of a site that defines it?
– Alex Schroeder 2009-09-11 07:21 UTC
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My generator is based on previous editions? You can select to use book-3 or book-6 rules, that are slightly different when calculating hydrographics. My trade codes are from book-7.
Base codes can differ depending on the version you use. One common version is found on traveller map.
For Naval and Scout base “2” is also commonly used instead of “A”.
– BeRKA 2009-09-11 08:25 UTC
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Oh wow. Thanks for the link. This was new to me: “special codes deal with the presence of more than one type of base within the same system in order to maintain a single base code letter per system.”
I think I’m going to focus on the rules I have or I’ll go mad. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2009-09-11 08:36 UTC
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Excellent!
– greywulf 2009-09-11 09:35 UTC