On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 15:28 +0200, Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote:
> Lee Begg pisze:
> 
> >> Ask Lee about that, I just scale everything internally in tpclient-pywx.
> > 
> > Most universes currently are no bigger (in diameter) than demo1. Of course 
> > some sort of scaling is necessary to display the universe, there just isn't 
> > enough pixels.
> > 
> > Depending on what you want to do, you might want to divide the units by 
> > 10,000, or maybe just take a smaller area at once.
> 
> Starmapper does scale too, the map can be whatever size scaled to any image
> size. So this is not a problem; the problem is that planet values have to be
> properly scaled to the size of the universe or it will look really bad. I'd
> like to know if there's one good base value for planet values or if I have
> to calculate it from the universe size :)

Probably best to calculate a good size based on the structure of the
universe.

Maybe base it on the average distance between systems or something?

Mithro

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