Plotting your expedition to share with others

GrumpyMinerSmuggles

GrumpyMinerSmuggles
Hey everyone

I have a question, after admiring so many others' work and exploits with their expedition journeys.

I hope CMDR Marlon Blake is alright with me sharing this:
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how do people make EPIC map plots like this? I'm not concerned about the technical side of things within photoshop or taking the screenshots. I'm just wondering how they're compiled and edited into one image. Make sense at all?

and if it doesn't, that's okay, because I'm having one heck of a head-cold right now and being remotely "coordinated" is quite a chore lol.

but yeah, I'm just curious if anyone could share how things like this are made.
my idea is at the "checkpoint" open up the galaxy map to sol. Zoom out, and take a screenshot. Once they're all done, you get an idea of where you've been. Does this make sense though? Because in-game, after four checkpoints, it's not exactly working out right for me in krita lol. I'm thinking I'm actually monitoring checkpoints that are way too close to each other (about 2kly)
 
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Spacecat

Spacecat
I'm guessing it's pretty much just a "picture" of the approximate route done in any paint program/photo editor.
 

Satsuma

Satsuma
EDDiscovery has a nice function to show your path on a 2D map of the galaxy. The path itself looks very MS Paint, but you could use that as a starting point - load it as a layer in GIMP or Photoshop, maybe - and produce a nice bezier curve line on a blank galaxy map in another layer.
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
MS paint ftw!
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Still ongoing, no particular reason for the colours except to split it up.
Current location = start of purple lines
Stars = Fuel Rat Rescues (both successful) :D

You can see when I joined distant worlds between the 19/02/16 and the 22/02/16 :p Nothing like nearly 60,000Ly in a weekend.
 
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