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Most recent edit on 2007-11-28 08:36:40 by KrzysztofSobolewski [Update a bit to recent developments in Starmapper]

Additions:
- Nodes: points on the The Map. They are the basic "skeleton" on which Starmapper operates. They have some properties - like position and name - and can belong to at most one region, called (surprise!) "owner" (can also be owned by noone);

Greetings

Welcome to home page of Starmapper, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond!

Overview

Starmapper is a mapping utility written in Java. It means that it will read some files and output an image (or series of images) presenting a map of influences of regions (usually colored blobs). It's rather limited in what it can do, but I think it is useful anyway :)

Actually (in version 3) Starmapper consists of several parts:
At some point in time I also created a servlet that sat on a server and generated images from files submitted via HTTP POST. I may revive this subproject some day...

Concepts

Starmapper (the library part) operates on several concepts:

Historical Note

Previous versions of Starmapper carried the "Stars! mapping utility" moniker. That's a reflection of how it all started - for a couple of years of "best years in my life" i was a Stars! junkie. Stars! is (was?) a turn-based strategy game in which up to 16 players turn into Galactic Imperators and try to destroy each other with their fleets of spaceships. Oh, the memories! Stars! can dump several statistics for the current turn (each turn is one game-year). Several useful tools can take these reports and do lots of interesting things with it. I, for one, wanted to have maps of the Empires. There were at least two tools for that purpose: starmap (very old, written in Pascal) and Xtreme Borders (Visual Basic, yuk! - but very competent tool). I am a geek and wanted to do better. So I wrote Starmapper (version 1). Technically, it was a success. Unfortunately I am the shy kind of geek, so it was a disaster in terms of marketing - almost nobody cared ;) Anyway, that's why in versions 1 and 2 Nodes are called Planets, Regions are Players and Node Infos, are (surprise!) Planet Infos.

Deletions:

Status

Greetings

Welcome to home page of Starmapper, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond!

Overview

Starmapper is a mapping utility written in Java. It means that it will read some files and output an image (or series of images) presenting a map of influences of regions (usually colored blobs). It's rather limited in what it can do, but I think it is useful anyway :)

Actually (in version 3) Starmapper consists of several parts:
At some point in time I also created a servlet that sat on a server and generated images from files submitted via HTTP POST. I may revive this subproject some day...

Concepts

Starmapper (the library part) operates on several concepts:

Historical Note

Previous versions of Starmapper carried the "Stars! mapping utility" moniker. That's a reflection of how it all started - for a couple of years of "best years in my life" i was a Stars! junkie. Stars! is (was?) a turn-based strategy game in which up to 16 players turn into Galactic Imperators and try to destroy each other with their fleets of spaceships. Oh, the memories! Stars! can dump several statistics for the current turn (each turn is one game-year). Several useful tools can take these reports and do lots of interesting things with it. I, for one, wanted to have maps of the Empires. There were at least two tools for that purpose: starmap (very old, written in Pascal) and Xtreme Borders (Visual Basic, yuk! - but very competent tool). I am a geek and wanted to do better. So I wrote Starmapper (version 1). Technically, it was a success. Unfortunately I am the shy kind of geek, so it was a disaster in terms of marketing - almost nobody cared ;) Anyway, that's why in versions 1 and 2 Nodes are called Planets, Regions are Players and Node Infos, are (surprise!) Planet Infos.




Edited on 2007-01-10 11:11:05 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:

Status

Greetings

Welcome to home page of Starmapper, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond!

Overview

Starmapper is a mapping utility written in Java. It means that it will read some files and output an image (or series of images) presenting a map of influences of regions (usually colored blobs). It's rather limited in what it can do, but I think it is useful anyway :)

Actually (in version 3) Starmapper consists of several parts:
At some point in time I also created a servlet that sat on a server and generated images from files submitted via HTTP POST. I may revive this subproject some day...

Concepts

Starmapper (the library part) operates on several concepts:

Historical Note

Previous versions of Starmapper carried the "Stars! mapping utility" moniker. That's a reflection of how it all started - for a couple of years of "best years in my life" i was a Stars! junkie. Stars! is (was?) a turn-based strategy game in which up to 16 players turn into Galactic Imperators and try to destroy each other with their fleets of spaceships. Oh, the memories! Stars! can dump several statistics for the current turn (each turn is one game-year). Several useful tools can take these reports and do lots of interesting things with it. I, for one, wanted to have maps of the Empires. There were at least two tools for that purpose: starmap (very old, written in Pascal) and Xtreme Borders (Visual Basic, yuk! - but very competent tool). I am a geek and wanted to do better. So I wrote Starmapper (version 1). Technically, it was a success. Unfortunately I am the shy kind of geek, so it was a disaster in terms of marketing - almost nobody cared ;) Anyway, that's why in versions 1 and 2 Nodes are called Planets, Regions are Players and Node Infos, are (surprise!) Planet Infos.


Deletions:

Status

Greetings

Welcome to home page of Starmapper, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond!

Overview

Starmapper is a mapping utility written in Java. It means that it will read some files and output an image (or series of images) presenting a map of influences of regions (usually colored blobs). It's rather limited in what it can do, but I think it is useful anyway :)

Actually (in version 3) Starmapper consists of several parts:
At some point in time I also created a servlet that sat on a server and generated images from files submitted via HTTP POST. I may revive this subproject some day...

Concepts

Starmapper (the library part) operates on several concepts:

Historical Note

Previous versions of Starmapper carried the "Stars! mapping utility" moniker. That's a reflection of how it all started - for a couple of years of "best years in my life" i was a Stars! junkie. Stars! is (was?) a turn-based strategy game in which up to 16 players turn into Galactic Imperators and try to destroy each other with their fleets of spaceships. Oh, the memories! Stars! can dump several statistics for the current turn (each turn is one game-year). Several useful tools can take these reports and do lots of interesting things with it. I, for one, wanted to have maps of the Empires. There were at least two tools for that purpose: starmap (very old, written in Pascal) and Xtreme Borders (Visual Basic, yuk! - but very competent tool). I am a geek and wanted to do better. So I wrote Starmapper (version 1). Technically, it was a success. Unfortunately I am the shy kind of geek, so it was a disaster in terms of marketing - almost nobody cared ;) Anyway, that's why in versions 1 and 2 Nodes are called Planets, Regions are Players and Node Infos, are (surprise!) Planet Infos.




Edited on 2006-09-15 06:14:33 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from upcoming version 3 (the same map, different plotters): DefaultPlotter (don't base your opinion on this one!), CappedPlotter, SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter, CappedMixingPlotter, SmoothMixingPlotter, DominationPlotter; and also: CappedPlotter with a bug ;).

Deletions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from upcoming version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter



Edited on 2006-09-15 05:12:44 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from upcoming version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter
Welcome to home page of Starmapper, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond!


Deletions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter

Welcome to home page of Starmapper!, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond.




Edited on 2006-08-14 13:57:58 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter


Deletions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter




Edited on 2006-08-14 13:55:59 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Sample images: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter


Deletions:
- Sample image: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter




Edited on 2006-08-14 13:55:44 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Sample image: from version 2; previews from version 3 (the same map, different plotters): CappedPlotter, CappedPlotter with a bug ;), SmoothPlotter, MixingPlotter


Deletions:
- Sample image: from version 2




Edited on 2006-08-14 12:58:54 by KrzysztofSobolewski

Additions:
- Version 3: somewhere between alpha and beta (I like to call it gamma); no releases yet, code is in SVN;

Greetings

Welcome to home page of Starmapper!, the mapping utility for Stars! and beyond.

Overview

Starmapper is a mapping utility written in Java. It means that it will read some files and output an image (or series of images) presenting a map of influences of regions (usually colored blobs). It's rather limited in what it can do, but I think it is useful anyway :)

Actually (in version 3) Starmapper consists of several parts:
At some point in time I also created a servlet that sat on a server and generated images from files submitted via HTTP POST. I may revive this subproject some day...

Concepts

Starmapper (the library part) operates on several concepts:

Historical Node

Previous versions of Starmapper carried the "Stars! mapping utility" moniker. That's a reflection of how it all started - for a couple of years of "best years in my life" i was a Stars! junkie. Stars! is (was?) a turn-based strategy game in which up to 16 players turn into Galactic Imperators and try to destroy each other with their fleets of spaceships. Oh, the memories! Stars! can dump several statistics for the current turn (each turn is one game-year). Several useful tools can take these reports and do lots of interesting things with it. I, for one, wanted to have maps of the Empires. There were at least two tools for that purpose: starmap (very old, written in Pascal) and Xtreme Borders (Visual Basic, yuk! - but very competent tool). I am a geek and wanted to do better. So I wrote Starmapper (version 1). Technically, it was a success. Unfortunately I am the shy kind of geek, so it was a disaster in terms of marketing - almost nobody cared ;) Anyway, that's why in versions 1 and 2 Nodes are called Planets, Regions are Players and Node Infos, are (surprise!) Planet Infos.

I abandoned Stars! a while ago (I still love this game, but don't ask why I left), and Starmapper became my toy project for testing new things. So here is version 3 - Starmapper filtered through second-system effect. It has been generified (quite heavily) to possibly support more data models (by applying a concept of programming to interfaces), so it is no longer tied to reports generated by Stars!. Additionally some restrictions were relaxed - like number of regions [no longer] limited to 16.
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