| Re: The Milky Way. (Game idea) |
Sun, 15 February 2009 19:26   |
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| PaulCr wrote on Mon, 16 February 2009 01:14 |
| magic9mushroom wrote on Sun, 15 February 2009 07:15 |
Remap planet habs to fit expected conditions in different parts of the galaxy, ie more radiation near the core, higher gravity in denser regions because bigger planets can form there, etc.
Remap mineral concentrations accordingly as well.
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Whilst this is possible, something similar was done in Home High Ground it would probably take an lot of time to do and test it, it would probably require somebody to write a program to work out the values to use, I certainly wouldn't want to do it manually, not sure if gible did his manually or not, the Host editor I've written can do the changes but you'd have to work out the settings for each planet yourself.
Actually that might be a nice idea for a program that you could tell it certain values for certain planets and have it map the unspecified planets to graduate the values between them, another option that might be used more often could be for an app that takes a CSV file containing planet X,Y,hab settings,Mineral concentrations, surface minerals and another file detailing player race files and starting locations and generate a .hst and .xy file from those which would give full control of the universe setup.
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Graduating worlds could be useful in a games, Home High Ground that started up recently actually did something similar along with specifically setting peoples HWs. Don't really think the idea is much different to that though other than looking like the milky way.
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Like hell I was going to calculate them manually. I used a spreadsheet with a mass of columns. Prolly shoulda just used java. Making a spiral terrain wouldn't be that much harder really...make a star shaped thingy terrain and then just rotate the positions. I thought about a specified points and graduated areas, but couldn't get the math to work easily(without looking it up).
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