Great planet generator, but...

[gloriousbattle]

http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/

It's a little quirky, as with so much software. Sometimes It won't print out the planet's description and I have to reload it.

However, all in all, a really great porduct. Lets you make maps of varying world types (Terran, Martian, various exotic styles) and the map can be a rectangle, circle, true Mercator, or Traveller's beloved icosahedron / flat d20.

However, there does not seem to be any way to download the whole planet. All I get is an HTML showing the stats, but not the all-important map. I can't imagint that this is what the designer intended.

Can anyone figure out how to do it?

 

[far-trader]

Right click on the image and copy or save it and play with it in Paint of something?

For that matter what am I missing? All I can see is the preview image, and that doesn't change when I change the display choice. Oh, OK, never mind, have to click "Create"

 

[Gray Lensman]

Actually, sitting at the Libray I can right click and save as A PDF.
Not Sure if this is because of full up Adobe Acrobat Pro or the Adobe CS3 Suite.

Gives me a 4 page PDF (last two pages the junk about the program) but I can also delete or extract pages to a different file because of Adobe Acrobat Pro

Interesting..................

 

[gloriousbattle]

Actually, sitting at the Libray I can right click and save as A PDF.
Not Sure if this is because of full up Adobe Acrobat Pro or the Adobe CS3 Suite.

Gives me a 4 page PDF (last two pages the junk about the program) but I can also delete or extract pages to a different file because of Adobe Acrobat Pro

Interesting..................

and all i have is reader

 

[drow]

upon clicking 'create', it should generate a page including the world map and a table of planetary statistics. if its failing to generate the world map for you, i'd be interested in learning what settings you're using (random seed, image size, projection, etc.)

saving this HTML page may or may not work, since the map is not a static image, but this depends on how clever your web browser is. you can always right-click on and save the map image separately, of course. or if you have appropriate OS/software, print the page to PDF.

 

[BillDowns]

and all i have is reader

Search for Bulldog PDF printer - its free. Installs as a printer and converts the print file to a pdf....

 

[HG_B]

Search for Bulldog PDF printer - its free. Installs as a printer and converts the print file to a pdf....

Open office will also convert text and image files into pdf

 

[aramis]

Search for Bulldog PDF printer - its free. Installs as a printer and converts the print file to a pdf....

MacOS X will do that as a built-in.

Linux, use CUPS-PDF (freeware)

 

[Peter Newman]

I'm skeptical of the crust composition on some of the planets it generates.

Planets generated with a standard map palette seem to have a normal crust, but most
of the random planets I generated with the 'alternate' maps were over 20% titanium. Titanium is less than 1% of the earths crust (0.63% by mass). Unless there's some evidence that I'm not aware of that our solar system is very low in titanium, or the ones I ran were a fluke, I'd say that that 'alternate' map planets have about 30 times as much titanium as they should.

 

[drow]

physical composition tends to be dominated by iron and rock (silicon and oxygen), whose percentages are generated randomly within a 'normal' range. whatever is left over is allocated to other metals or elements. if the generator happens to choose very low percentages of the dominant elements, then you get a prospector's jackpot. composition is not related to the map palette, that's just a fluke.

atmospheric composition is generated by a similar algorithm, though there are fewer assumptions of dominant elements.