Map Concept: Juptier Wars

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I had this idea the other night after reading a post asking if there were any maps made of our solar system yet. 

The concept is to base the entire map around the planet Juptier, using Juptier as the sun (complete with a custom texture) and it's 16 primary moons the "planets." The other 46 tiny moons will be represented with asteroids of various types. Some of the moons already corespond to the planatery types already have available in the map maker. (volcanic for Io, ice for Ganymede, etc..)

With all the tiny moons included it will likely be a large-huge map. I also plan to release a  smaller version with just the 16 primary moons which will fall nicely into the small to medium range.

Mainly I'm looking for any suggestions and thoughts on this map before I get too far along with it. (and some help with the custom star texture looking like Juptier would be very welcome. Modelling/texturing is one thing I know little about)

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
This looks cool... I support this idea.
Go ahead and make it... ill dl!! :)
But, sorry i cant help out with anything....
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
hmm....how big is the mod? do you inteand on changing the ships too? to maby fit the enviroment better?

(Take out phase lanes, make everything closer, so thier is no jumping for example?
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
To the OP:

Hi dude!

Infact, it was me that asked about if out solar system had been done. I think this is a genius idea. I'll happily make a Jupiter texture for you if you need one, just drop me an email and i'll see what I can come up with. I doubt you'd need to do any actual modding (except to change the planet texture if the Forge Map tools wont do that). Small amount of progress has been made on the Trek map I suggested in my other post.

Keep me posted on how u get along with this and drop me a line if you need a hand.

Andy
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
also u may want to consider adding a sun with no phase lanes going to it ...have it off far to the side just for lighting and aesthetics
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
To the OP: Hi dude!
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Actually it's dudette  ;) (I know, a female gamer that does modding, scary huh? *points to profile*)

Thanks for the offer of the Jupiter texturing, I could really use a hand with that, (I know little about modeling/texturing) and glad to hear your star trek map is under way.

also u may want to consider adding a sun with no phase lanes going to it ...have it off far to the side just for lighting and aesthetics!
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Great idea thanks, I'll be sure to add this in.


hmm....how big is the mod? do you inteand on changing the ships too? to maby fit the enviroment better?

(Take out phase lanes, make everything closer, so their is no jumping for example?
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I estimate it to be less than 20mb, depending on the size of the custom textures for the needed planets)

I haven't given any thoughts really about changing the ships to better fit the envrioment since there's no real "theme" to it beyond the moons of jupiter. (Although I could adapt the ship designs of the book Lucky Starr and The Moons of Jupiter from the Lucky Starr Chronicles scfi book series by Issac asimov, or the ships from the Jovian Chronicles rpg game easily enough. Although without any modelling/texturing ability I wouldn't get very far at all.)

As far as removing the phase lines I'm not sure this would really pan out in game since the moons orbit jupiter, and therefore will be surrounding the entire planet (which will be star sized) so moving between planets without phase lines could take an enormous amount of time.