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Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com> | Date: 2/11/12 12:24 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: An alternative presentation... (OldNick) : Thanks for the kind opinion, I hoped you'd like it. The display is admittedly : busy (looks better at full size, and yes, it all suddenly clicks when in : motion), but in order to make hand-flying and navigation convenient and : enjoyable while keeping everything to scale you just have to provide some : artificial augmentation of depth-perception and spatial awareness (since : the field of view is unavoidably narrow). The last time I looked at : Celestia you couldn't fly the viewpoint by hand, which I would assume was : because they hadn't found acceptable solutions to these problems. : I certainly agree that a 2D map provides a more easily grasped overview, and
: On a lighter note, perhaps readers who lack our familiarity with positional
: To put it another, possibly clearer way: to create this image I started with
: That view is also pretty cool. I understand your context with the related image perfectly. I also realize the solar system is spinning more of less in a steering wheel angle compared to a horizontal galactic plane. Disconcerting, but it's true. On my map, another feature would be the ability to click on a star and get a zoomed-in layout of the system with planets and such. Not too many fully-known systems in the Haloverse, but it would be a start. There's so much wasted potential in the Halo universe. There's so many, many things that could be done just with existing info, but only a few novels and games are all we have. So much potential!
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Re: An alternative presentation... | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 2/11/12 12:24 p.m. |
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