Creating World Maps
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No damage done at all - and your observations are correct - the LunarCell results are not 'exact'.
Of course, Classic Traveller's ranges are not exact either: from Hydro ratings of 0-A, ocean % varies by as much as 10% within a single rating... far more than the variance I've observed when testing LunarCell... which makes LunarCell MORE accurate than I really need for my world maps.
If exactitude is required, your recommendation for using the Fractal Generator is a good one, and your advice is invaluable.
Again - no damage done whatsoever, and I am sorry if you feel I was stifling or dismissing your comments. Travel well!
Of course, Classic Traveller's ranges are not exact either: from Hydro ratings of 0-A, ocean % varies by as much as 10% within a single rating... far more than the variance I've observed when testing LunarCell... which makes LunarCell MORE accurate than I really need for my world maps.
If exactitude is required, your recommendation for using the Fractal Generator is a good one, and your advice is invaluable.
Again - no damage done whatsoever, and I am sorry if you feel I was stifling or dismissing your comments. Travel well!
I realised that I left a step out of my procedure for developing and measuring planet maps. For those who do not want to go back to find the change, I reproduce it here.
After the part about selecting a map from the slush:
[EDIT="I skipped a step"]
III-B: Surface areas
First determine the surface area of your planet(4*pi*radius^2).
For this planet, with a radius of 3,400 miles, we come up with an area of ~145,267,244 square miles.
To determine the area represented by each pixel, we divide the area into the number of pixels as determined by the mollweide field histogram: in this case, 641,661. So we get that each pixel represents ~226 square miles. Planets are big.
The pixels are small enough that I can assume they are on a flat surface with only a small loss of accuracy. So lets take the square root of the pixel are to get the approximate size of each pixel. That gives us squares about 15 miles on a side. This is adequate for short trips, but you can expect distances to be fabulously inaccurate over long trips.
[/EDIT]
Also, I'm going to attempt to reproduce Hyphen's Tavonni map using Bryce. I foresee headaches.
After the part about selecting a map from the slush:
[EDIT="I skipped a step"]
III-B: Surface areas
First determine the surface area of your planet(4*pi*radius^2).
For this planet, with a radius of 3,400 miles, we come up with an area of ~145,267,244 square miles.
To determine the area represented by each pixel, we divide the area into the number of pixels as determined by the mollweide field histogram: in this case, 641,661. So we get that each pixel represents ~226 square miles. Planets are big.
The pixels are small enough that I can assume they are on a flat surface with only a small loss of accuracy. So lets take the square root of the pixel are to get the approximate size of each pixel. That gives us squares about 15 miles on a side. This is adequate for short trips, but you can expect distances to be fabulously inaccurate over long trips.
[/EDIT]
Also, I'm going to attempt to reproduce Hyphen's Tavonni map using Bryce. I foresee headaches.
TheEngineer
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Hi !
Could somebody tell me, if LunarCell is able to use a prepared bitmap as map and proceed with its other nice functions then ?
I would like to use my FT2 worldmap but also would like to get the nice presentaion of LunarCell....
Regards,
TE
Could somebody tell me, if LunarCell is able to use a prepared bitmap as map and proceed with its other nice functions then ?
I would like to use my FT2 worldmap but also would like to get the nice presentaion of LunarCell....
Regards,
TE
Andrew Boulton
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It can't.
TheEngineer
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Ah, the Dream...
Input relevant UPP details, fractal program makes consistent planet maps, choose one and artistically modify/touch-up, overlay city/region/feature names, turn into LunarCell-esque pretty orbital pictures (with starfields, lense flair, moons, etc.)
Surely some tech-head here could whip up something over the weekend!
Input relevant UPP details, fractal program makes consistent planet maps, choose one and artistically modify/touch-up, overlay city/region/feature names, turn into LunarCell-esque pretty orbital pictures (with starfields, lense flair, moons, etc.)
Surely some tech-head here could whip up something over the weekend!
hi Alik - if you are looking at Bryce for mapping, you may find This Thread informative.
All the best
Ravs
Yeah, I paid for Flexify 2 on top of Flexify; you can bet your undercarriage I'd pay for LunarCell 2 if it had this feature.
Input cloudmaps, bumpmaps, colormaps, etc. and let LunarCell 2 do the rest. I'd also love for it to a logical river network based on the bumpmap and probably some sort of "wetness" parameter.
Email you friends at flamingpear: support@flamingpear.com
And, yeah, I know that's probably just the webmaster. But hey...
Andrew Boulton
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Has anyone got the "real clouds" option to work?
Andrew Boulton
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Whichever I choose, it downloads something but nothing appears.
Just tested it again and it worked okay for me... use the 'update this list' button (and make sure you've not prohibited Photoshop from talking to the web with some firewall, etc.), and then choose one of the options.
This image was done using the 'Goes 8km' setting just now:
This image was done using the 'Goes 8km' setting just now:
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
It's definitely downloading something, but I think it might be saving it in the wrong place...
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Yup. I've tweaked every setting, but it makes no difference (and the files are being downloaded okay, I found them).
I feel like doing a bit of debugging with a baseball bat...
I feel like doing a bit of debugging with a baseball bat...
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