Friday, February 25, 2011

Traveller Map Help

I don't usually post anything on Fridays beyond my Open Friday question, but today I'll make an exception. Is there anyone out there who can either point me toward a program or some other method to generate nice-looking Traveller-style subsector maps? If you can, drop me a note either in the comments or by email.

Thanks.
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Posted by James Maliszewski at 8:09 PM
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15 comments:

  1. Allen VarneyFebruary 25, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    I like http://www.travellermap.com/ for actual Imperium maps. You could find an empty or otherwise likely-looking sector and then take a browser screenshot.

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  2. Greyhawk GrognardFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    Give Hexographer a try. I've never used it for Traveller-style maps, but I know it can do that sort of thing. I'm a big fan for wilderness maps.

    http://inkwellideas.com/roleplaying_tools/hexographer/

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  3. pulcheriusFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:22 PM

    I can recommend a few. I'm a Traveller fan with nearly 700 megs of stuff on my hard drive.

    Astrogator , Heaven and Earth

    I don't remember were I downloaded these from. You can look them up or I can send zip files if you like.

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  4. Timothy StoneFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:47 PM

    "Isomage's House" will not disappoint.

    Enjoy.

    http://bit.ly/traveller-maps

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    1. StyopaNovember 7, 2022 at 12:41 PM

      Necro reply: No, I'm *absolutely not* installing a browser add in to go to that page.

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  5. Joe BardalesFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:49 PM

    Campaign Cartographer 3 (CC3) with the Cosmographer 3 add-on has a lot of map styles, symbols and tools designed specifically for Traveller:

    http://www.profantasy.com/products/cos3_examples.asp

    http://www.profantasy.com/products/cos3_deckplans.asp

    From the Profantasy Web site:
    "Cosmographer and Traveller® support: Cosmographer has been approved for use with Traveller® and comes with numerous templates and examples for your mapping needs in the universe of the Third Imperium and other Traveller settings. Best of all, you can import Traveller system data into Cosmographer 3 templates and create maps of your favorite sectors with just a few mouse clicks."

    So you can even import Traveller data into CC3 to make maps.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:49 PM

    I like:

    http://zho.berka.com/data/random/

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  7. Robert ConleyFebruary 25, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    The problem with all the current choices isn't that they can't produce Traveller Maps even fairly nice traveller maps for the table. Is that they are not what I would call publishable maps. The only one that comes close is the Traveller Map and you have to know how to use the API to get those style of maps.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM

    There are a some realistic starmaps here:

    http://www.projectrho.com/starmap.html

    There are also some "realistic" starships here:

    http://www.merzo.net/

    Finally you can google "traveller sector generator" to get a huge number of possible programs.

    For some reason I suspect that computer science types (like myself) were attracted to traveller (like myself) and had the tools and skills to homebrew their own software. Some of it is reallly old.

    http://www.freelancetraveller.com/infocenter/swlist/others.html
    http://www.vrhome.com/traveller/software.htm

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  9. Jimmy SimpsonFebruary 25, 2011 at 11:23 PM

    I used Adobe Illustrator 10 for the Traveller maps I created.
    http://librarydata.jtas.net/LibraryData/R/ReaversDeep.htm

    At the bottom of the page is the map. You can click on a subsector to bring up it's map.

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  10. Spawn of EndraFebruary 26, 2011 at 1:25 AM

    I suspect that one of the bigger challenges after making a map you like is getting a campaign-sized one printed, perhaps in multiple copies and perhaps some of them laminated at a reasonable price. I'm attached to a university, and when I need 3'x6' posters printed for a conference I go to the printlab in the architecture school, or until recently the biology dept supported an imaging lab that would give you 3' wide laminated posters at about US$6 per foot. The same thing at Kinkos or similar is often more than $100. See if you can snake your way into UToronto or make some friends there.

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  11. thekelvingreenFebruary 26, 2011 at 6:22 AM

    This one gives you lots of detail, but the map itself is not pretty:
    http://www.signalgk.com/cgi-bin/ctsg.pl

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  12. ColinFebruary 26, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    i'd echo the previous comment about Heaven & Earth. Another program that is available (but not free) is Traveller Universe, which allows you to build a galactic map similar to the Imperial one, with breakdowns to the Sector, Subsector and system level: http://www.trisen.com/sol/default.asp?topic=10&page=47

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  13. hubbell_bruceFebruary 27, 2011 at 2:17 AM

    Heavan and earth, Formerly World Builder Deluxe. It's freeware now, designed for older OS's.

    http://www.downport.com/wbd/HEAVEN_&_EARTH.htm

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  14. Pandemic PoetMarch 30, 2011 at 11:06 PM

    Hexographer works pretty well and the free version can be launched from your browser.

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