Elite Galaxy Online v1.8 - The Orrery

[Redfox]

The underlying technology is webgl and I'm using a JavaScript library called three.js

Witchcraft! Are you made of wood?

[video=youtube;zrzMhU_4m-g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g[/video]

 

[Commander Wolzan]

Excellent! Great job Admiral!

Thanks Commander, it certainly seems like a long time ago when I messaged you saying I was gonna make an Orrery, finally managed to pull it off.

 

[Zenith]

FRONTIER!!!

GET THIS IN GAME NOW!!!!

Commander Wolzan, that is a really good visualisation you've got there!
Does it work with any system if you have full orbital measurements and ephemerides?

Oh wow! I've just played with the time controls as well.
Seriously, this is a brilliant tool you've put together here.

OMG! I just hit the system map icon. The way you've implemented the traditional system map is also top notch.

 

[Commander Wolzan]

FRONTIER!!!

GET THIS IN GAME NOW!!!!

Commander Wolzan, that is a really good visualisation you've got there!
Does it work with any system if you have full orbital measurements and ephemerides?

Oh wow! I've just played with the time controls as well.
Seriously, this is a brilliant tool you've put together here.

OMG! I just hit the system map icon. The way you've implemented the traditional system map is also top notch.

. Thanks commander, yes it should work with any system in the galaxy. The objects just need to be recorded at the site first.

It's usually pretty easy to record objects as you can just upload screenshots and an OCR scanner will capture the details. Unfortunately though this is offline at the minute as there is a problem with the formatting of data in 2.1.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=256614&p=3976111#post3976111

Objects have to be recorded manually at the minute but as long as the right orbital data is entered then yes an orrery can be created. Full details here

http://www.elitegalaxyonline.com/orrery-guide/

 

[oz42]

CMDR Wolzan, this is absolutely amazing!! You MUST contact Frontier NOW, get a job there and implement this in game!

You have done an amazing job here and it is much better than the version in game. We must have this ported over to the real thing.

HUGE REP!

 

[BaldEagle]

Thanks everyone for the great feedback. The underlying technology is webgl and I'm using a JavaScript library called three.js which is awesome.

Oh - so it is really easy then
mmm - I think not. This is brilliant work Commander; I am now desperately reading to see if I am clever enough to add some of the interesting systems I have visited.
+1 seems so inadequate...

 

[Inticus]

Love this, +1

Anyone working on a third-party app via your API to automate the upload yet?

 

[Commander Wolzan]

Love this, +1

Anyone working on a third-party app via your API to automate the upload yet?

Thanks Commander.

Unfortunately not I'm afraid, there was some interest early on and some commanders started but it petered out. I have it on the roadmap to try and build an small app to do it but I would have to start pretty much from scratch as I have no knowlegde of creating a desktop application so for the time being I am trying to focus on improving the site instead.

I think step 1 of the companion app just simply needs to be

Detect when a screenshot is taken,
Convert to jpeg
Submit to the scanner via the API using the base64 encoding method
Include system name in the API submission extracted from net log

The above functionality would make the process of getting screenshots onto the scanner so much better and possible to do from in game. They can then be reviewed at the commanders leisure on desktop or mobile.

It would be very very awesome