lookinf or terralogicus and astrologicus

[copycat042]

If you've ever played frontier (elite 2) you know that there is an entire galaxy of stars in the game, each with its own physical, economic, social, and political statistics.
Does anyone know where i can find a random world generator that will give me everything from the world map, to the name of that beggar down the street? Maybe it would suggest some trade items for regions/villages, but it should mainly be a sandbox for the GM to drop plots into.

The game uses some fractal-type calculation (i think), because the whole thing is a little over 1MB and there are more than that many stars. It is not completely random, because the galaxy is the same for everyone. A particular seed number producing the same world for everyone would be nice.
What would be really awesome would be a "browser based" app where you could click on a section of map for an increasingly detailed view(like google maps), down to individual village maps with clickable stats for buildings and a list of inhabitants.

I don't want much, do I?


I am looking for a copy of terralogicus or astrologicus. both are world generation/simulation programs from logicrucible. They run in DOS. The company is now defunct, so i can't get it there. Please help!

TIA


copycat042

[Rob Lang]

Copycat, that would be a very cool tool indeed. Unfortunately, I don't know of one. I tried making a quick thing for Icar but realised it was madly complicated when you got down to the village level.

If you find one in your search, please let me know!

[bal3000]

Hey Copycat042,

I thought that request sounded familiar!

Welcome to the 1kkm1kt boards!

[copycat042]

what's going on bal? I've got a request on en world, too. Did I mention that i'm really lazy?

[Rob Lang]

Did you get any replies on En World, copycat? Or did people go suspiciously quiet there too?

[copycat042]

no dice on EN world either. seems the software has dropped off the map.

[copycat042]

On a similar note, greenfish has an interesting random map generator.




if you export the bitmap,


import it into fractal world explorer (part of the astrosynthesis install from nbos software),



lower the water level about 3000 meters,

you have the start of a solid campaign map.

but it is a pain in the butt.


come to think of it, astrosynthesis might do what i want, but it's not free, and is still supported.

[Rob Lang]

That is a right pain.

How would you want your start map arranged? On a grid? Hex or circles with lines connecting them, demonstrating routes?

[copycat042]

Ideally, a hex map with lines for routes.
I believe that terralogicus would map a planet to 1 meter hexes. I would be satisfied with 1 mile (~1.6 km) resolution. Also, a "path of least resistance" route between random nearby towns, and straight line routes between farther settlements would be interesting.

HEY! Surely there are talented programmers somewhere out there who would enjoy creating a program like this. We should start a thread to that end.

[Rob Lang]

You would need to be able to save the map and then print it at whatever resolution you needed. So it would (likely) needs to be vector of some sort. Flash or SVG (not Internet Exporer).