FQM Quadrant Shapes

[Fyron]

What shape of quadrant would you like to see added to FQM?

[Tnargversion2]

A spiral with a dense center that has several radiating arms.

[Fyron]

Here is my first attempt at a logarithmic spiral shape:

[mrscrogg]

That's nice !

[Raapys]

How about something more ala this:


The picture is from MoO3, but you get the idea. I.e., seperate arms. Not sure how hard that'll be to construct.

[Kamog]

Wow, I like the logarithmic spiral quadrant.

[Thy_Reaper]

I like the log spiral a lot, and I like the idea of a spiral arm quadrant too.

[Tnargversion2]

Your Logarithmic spiral looks great.

Is there any way to make the arms have more width as far as instead of only one star system width strings, maybe 3 or even 4 width star system arms? Similiar to MOO3 picture. Perhaps using 255 systems?

In addition to the spiral galaxy format what about a globular cluster that has a very dense core and the further one gets away from the center the more space between the stars.

Also anyway to set up a few warp lines that a very limited but stretch over great distances connecting one corner of the map to another for example.

[Fyron]

SE5's map doesn't have enough precision to do very much with thick spiral arms, unfortunately. The map is only 67x49 squares. Plus, when I do place multiple stars into the spiral, it gets really ugly WP lines. Here is an example I had worked on last night:



Raapys:
It only takes as long as determining the a,b,c parameters for the polar logarithmic function. The real kicker is coming up with decent parameters that make layouts SE5 can work with.

[Baron Munchausen]

What we really need is for SE to support interlinking of maps to make larger play areas.