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Offline Elton Robb

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Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« on: October 22, 2010, 11:14:05 AM »
I wanted to create a star map like the Freelancer Map.

http://igiss.net/images/discovery/discoveryuniverse2.jpg

This is for my SpaceMaster campaign I'm dreaming up.  So, I took a look at Winchell Chung's site (project RHO) and have looked at Cosmographer and AstroSynthesis 2.0.  My question is: what starmapping program do you recommend?
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Re: Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 11:27:40 AM »
I would use photoshop to create a map like the one you have shown.
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Re: Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 11:43:39 AM »
That's the plan.  I think I'll do 30 ly out from Sol for Human Space.
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Re: Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 01:05:50 PM »
Elton;
 I do have Astrosynthsis 2.0 and it is great for generating lots of systems quickly. But In general right now I am interested in breaking some of the long held rules for system creation.
 I think that Astrosyth has a free 30 day trial and the other program might also. You might want to check for that and just see what they offer.
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Re: Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 08:41:01 PM »
I've got Astrosynthsis 2.0 and I've been slowly building the map of the Verge from StarDrive using it (since it gives you 3D coordinates on that nice big poster map).
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Re: Best Way of Mapping a star system?
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2010, 03:31:32 PM »
Astrosynthesis is the way to go, at least for myself. When I started it was Photoshop, but as I created the Imperial map, I moved over to Astro and CC2..er... I guess CC3 now. Been a while.
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