On 10/9/2011 11:34 PM, Alaconius wrote:
Hello Folks, It has always been a sort of holy grail for me to try and find ways to represent ship movement within a star system, along with planetary movements concurrent with ship movement. One of those pesky things I've not been able to pin down was planetary movement along an ellipse. I'm hoping that perhaps even THAT issue will be overcome as of tonight.
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Does this make sense? Have I missed anything? If this works, then I may finally have a means for plotting the location of any given space craft for use in a GURPS campaign (be it GURPS TRAVELLER, GURPS TRANSHUMAN SPACE or even GURPS SPACESHIPS.Thoughts? Comments? Hal
The math caused my eyes to roll up in my head so I won't be any good to you there. However, I can offer something that if nothing else, can graphically display the system and how the planets relate to each other. You can create your own systems, use the pre-designed ones, or even take a look at Cyrannus (the 12 Colonies of Kobol)...
http://universesandbox.com/blog/ Pretty cool software and it's free. -- Kurt Feltenberger [email protected]/[email protected] http://www.casademon.org “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
