Comments on: Space is big, and this Subsector is empty

By: Alex Schroeder

Alex Schroeder — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:42:03 +0000

I finally found the time to look at it again. I had a working version, but wasn’t too happy with the hexes, and the SVG output was going to need some cleaning up. I also had an old hex map generator lying around that I had begun writing myself some years back, so I figured I was going to rewrite the entire thing.

Result:
http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/svg-map

By: Alex Schroeder

Alex Schroeder — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:37:58 +0000

The same license as Perl 5 is fine with me. Thanks!

By: David Dorward

David Dorward — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:34:28 +0000

I’ve updated the files on github to include license information. I’m defaulting to the Artistic license (which is the licensed used by Perl 5 itself). If you really want to use the GPL, then let me know and I’ll look at dual licensing.

By: Alex Schröder

Alex Schröder — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:15:22 +0000

What’s the license situation for the source code? I started hacking it and wondered whether I can build on your code or whether I need to roll my own. Personally, I’d prefer GPL. Are you still planning on maintaining the code?

Here’s a PNG export from Inkscape:

http://campaignwiki.org/campaignwiki/pics/Kaylash/Kaylash_Subsector_Map.png

By: BeRKA

BeRKA — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:35:45 +0000

As previous posters said. There are lots of stuff already available. Galactic 2.4 is an old (DOS) program for maps that can also keep campaign data. Universe is a more modern version. I have ported parts of galactic (using perl) to my map pages. Even nicer maps can be found at Traveller Map. Don't forget that there already is a traveller wiki.

By: David Dorward

David Dorward — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:20:18 +0000

@Michael That looks like quite a nice piece of software, but appears to be very GM focused, so not really a resource for publishing information for the players in a campaign. It also looks like it runs under Windows, and there’s a predominance of Linux and Mac users in my gaming groups.

@Snorkeyb Those modules do look quite useful, and I think I’ll be making use of them. Thanks!

By: Snorkeyb

Snorkeyb — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:07:14 +0000

Very Nice. I found a couple perl modules that might be helpful: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Games-Traveller-UWP-0.94/lib/Games/Traveller/UWP.pm and http://search.cpan.org/src/RJE/Games-Traveller-UwpTools-0.93/lib/Games/Traveller/UwpTools.pm

It might save you some time.

Snork

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:51:38 +0000

I may have another solution for you, one that I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. I’m calling it the IISS Operating System (for lack of a better name, I suppose), and its coming together nicely. It’s designed to be a laptop GM aide. I’ll have a beta ready for it soon, but you can check it out on my website.