Friday, January 7, 2011

CBT Cartographer

Here is a previous thread on another application I created, the CBT Cartographer:

Classicbattletech.com Forum and here is a link to the file.  Here are some excerpts on how to use it:

EDIT:  The forum link apparently doesn't work anymore, the crazy mods on the forums probably deleted or moved it or something.

  • E/Shift-E moves between eras
  • + or numpad + = zoom in
  • - or numpad - = zoom out
  • Up/Down/Right/Left or Num8/Num2/Num4/Num7 = Pan
  • Backspace = Center
  • Escape = Exit (I think)
  • CTRL-P = Find jump path (spell planet names correctly!)
  • P or U?= Show/Hide current jump path
  • C = Show/hide comstar logo overlay
  • J = Show/hide jump radius
  • CTRL-F = Find system
  • N/P = cycles through all systems that matched from CTRL-F
  • Right click (sometimes you have to do it twice) takes you to a sarna.net entry for that planet (if it exists) and escape closes that window
  • If you left click on a planet it'll center it, and if you don't move the mouse at ALL it'll just show you other systems within 9pc) - its flakey

Haven't worked on this in a while, it was initially just a test for some ways to do a succession wars type 4X game, project just grew a bit :) 

2 comments:

  1. Just found this blog. As I'm about to prepare a campaign fpr my fellow gamers I was excited to find a calculator at last but the planets aren't complete. Has somebody completed it?

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  2. There are more updated lists you can use on the forums at http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,9578.0.html.

    However, until Handbook House Kurita comes out we simply don't have a complete map in all the eras, and only some eras are totally complete.

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