World Map Forms

[robject]

I go along with the JTAS entry, with 7 hexes on a triangle side = a size 7 world. So the diameter is (5 x world size) hexes. A size 7 world has a diameter of 35 hexes = 7000 miles = 11,200 km, so there's 320km to the hex.

Checking my math. A size 4 world would have a 20 hex diameter, which means D = 6400km, or 4000 miles. Yep, that's the scale I use, all right.

Note that in my samples, world size 8 still doesn't quite fill its allowed space. A size 10 world would fill it up entirely.

I think I'd take your advice and use the whole sheet for the world map, separate sheet for system data.

I'd probably use size 10 maps for size 11 and 12 worlds, if only because they're rare. Size 12 worlds and up are likely to be panthalassic anyway, in which case there aren't really any features to model, except for exceptions of course.

 

[Golan2072]

320km per hex is also pretty managable from a ground-travel POV, as even relatively slow vehicle could cross one in less than a day. I'd say one possible encounter per hex, and add a speed in "hexes per day" to Piper's LBB vehicle designs.

 

[Golan2072]

Any update on your exellent maps, Robject? I like them and I'd like to see ones for sizes 1-A

 

[robject]

Not much. I'm using the entire page for the world map now, and I have scales for world sizes 4, 6, 7, and 8. But I don't have any "window-dressing" to frame those maps. Maybe MT's world map form is enough.

 

[Mickazoid]

robject - wanna throw me some pdf's and I'll design a nice dressing in CT look-n-feel?

I'll be happy to leave room for the logarithmic 'AU' planetary scale (like in the prior screenies by me and joshua)!

Let me know if I can be of assistance, fellow cartographer.

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by robject:
Not much. I'm using the entire page for the world map now, and I have scales for world sizes 4, 6, 7, and 8. But I don't have any "window-dressing" to frame those maps. Maybe MT's world map form is enough.

The "Window-Dressing" is secondary in importance; what I'm looking for are the hex-grids themselves, preferrably in a 320km per-hex scale; I'll be very grateful to have one per 1-A world size, even in a very preliminary format, as I'd probablty like to combine them into larger PDF documents, on the same page with the world's description and data.

 

[robject]

Originally posted by Employee 2-4601:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by robject:
Not much. I'm using the entire page for the world map now, and I have scales for world sizes 4, 6, 7, and 8. But I don't have any "window-dressing" to frame those maps. Maybe MT's world map form is enough.

The "Window-Dressing" is secondary in importance; what I'm looking for are the hex-grids themselves, preferrably in a 320km per-hex scale; I'll be very grateful to have one per 1-A world size, even in a very preliminary format, as I'd probablty like to combine them into larger PDF documents, on the same page with the world's description and data. </font>[/QUOTE]So would I. Remind me, and I'll dig them up from my now-rarely-used computer at home and send you what I've got. Be warned, they're not pretty.

For starters, here's a triangle with ten hexes on a side.

And here's a very messy attempt at a size-10 world (I should have trimmed off those little horizontal guide thingies).

Messy size 10 world.

 

[robject]

OK, I built some kinda rough, amateurish world maps, in sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. They can be found in here:

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/forms

Their names are world_2.png through world_10.png.