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- | ====== Traveller | + | ====== Traveller |
- | // | + | **WorldGen** |
- | A basic description is that Worldgen is a Java web application, | + | There were several versions of it over a course |
- | The current status of the project is that a major re-write started of it about two years ago, but it has been on hold for over a year now. It is not forgotten though, and work will hopefully begin again before the end of the year. | + | There was then several years where it was left untouched, but in 2017 there was an attempt to re-start it, by re-writing |
- | ===== Mapping Traveller Worlds ===== | + | There is a current development version running on a [[https:// |
- | The first aim was to map all the worlds | + | The primary source |
- | * Individual detail on each world within the system. | ||
- | * For multi-star systems, detail on the arrangement of the stars and the orbits of the planets. | ||
- | * Details on moons for some of the worlds. | ||
- | * Textual description for each world, rather than just limiting the description to raw statistics. | ||
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- | To simplify things, a [[classification]] system was used. This classes worlds into broad types, such as CryoJovian, EoGaian, Enceladean etc. The system generation can work out how many planets there are, and what the types of those planets are, and then leave it to a planet generator to work out the details. | ||
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