Seemed this was starting to need it's own topic, so I'll risk opening it
I've coded several programs over the years that were designed to handle the tediously iterative bits of generating Traveller charater & world data, and I'm sure lots of you out there have as well. So, before I launch into my next one (the most ambitious to date actually) I wanted to know what people might want from such a system... especially as y'all have your own ideas.
Currently I have some rather kludgy tools that let me take a grayscale image and use it as a variable density map (white=100%, black=0%) to generate truly huge numbers of subsectors easily. I also have a viewer that lets you scroll through the generated spaces.
Code needs some cleanup to make it publishable, but it does work. Uses Tcl/Tk, so it should run on anything.
But what next?
PalmOS subsector mapper?
Massive data-driven web collective universe?
Simply making an XML DTD for keeping world info?
This last bit would be really usefull, as it would let us all share stuff easily.
Anyway, just my own scattered thoughts on the subject.
I've coded several programs over the years that were designed to handle the tediously iterative bits of generating Traveller charater & world data, and I'm sure lots of you out there have as well. So, before I launch into my next one (the most ambitious to date actually) I wanted to know what people might want from such a system... especially as y'all have your own ideas.
Currently I have some rather kludgy tools that let me take a grayscale image and use it as a variable density map (white=100%, black=0%) to generate truly huge numbers of subsectors easily. I also have a viewer that lets you scroll through the generated spaces.
Code needs some cleanup to make it publishable, but it does work. Uses Tcl/Tk, so it should run on anything.
But what next?
PalmOS subsector mapper?
Massive data-driven web collective universe?
Simply making an XML DTD for keeping world info?
This last bit would be really usefull, as it would let us all share stuff easily.
Anyway, just my own scattered thoughts on the subject.