Looks like an interesting project. Would love to hear more about
This is both a map, and a programming project. It's a prototype of something I was intending to include with another program I am working on (which has nothing to do with maps), but I wanted to show the map to you guys.
It's a program which displays my map, with points of interest, and allows the user to click a destination to find out further information, in this case a smaller map showing greater detail and a little area history.
The map I've created is a sci-fi starmap, but it's scriptable and could just as easily handle a fantasy or historical map, with points of interest being forts and villages, with the extra details in the pop-up boxes being village/fort maps and area trivia or characters of note.
The images aren't great at showing the map in action, this small youtube vid is much better.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2zCDyJ61Ycc
Overview
overview.png
After clicking a point of interest
pepso.png
Another one
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Last edited by RobA; 10-14-2008 at 01:22 PM. Reason: inlined images
Looks like an interesting project. Would love to hear more about
looks cool buddy.
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I like the conceptualization of a stellar map. Very cool,
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Pretty cool. Looks like it's from a video game. Nice job.
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Thanks for the feedback.
I have a fair bit of work at the moment, but I'd ideally like to have a few members take the exe for a test drive once I have a free day. I need to see if it works as intended on computers using different themes in particular.
Hey Funso! Nice proggy (and maps!)
I edited you posts to put the images inline... Once they are attached, just click the paperclip icon "insert" them wherever you want... They will show up as:
[ATTACH]XXXX[/ATTACH]
and you won't need to sue the insert image or link buttons.
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Neat program. Have some rep
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Pimping my worldmap here. Still WIP... long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far...
That's a really sweet idea, man.
I'd be really interested to see this concept played out in an online environment, either in Flash or handled through some front-end dynamic kung fu like jQuery or Ruby.
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