Hi Cmdrs!
for my needs on my web app ED-Board I've created an 3D Galactic Map for E: D (will be implemented very soon for EDBoard users).
To do something reusable the 3DMap is build as a single app and open source.
If someone want to use the 3D map on his website / webapp or contributing to the project it's open!
I've launched today a first Beta release of the app and a small demo app to demonstrate the capabilities.
It should be ready for use (warn me if there is integration problems).
As using WebGL it need an uptodate browser to work (tested it on FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera & IE).
List of features:
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- Use a JSON file to fill the map.
- Manage click event to display information related to a system (if detailed infos, need to be in the JSON file)
- Display a global view of the galaxy that reproduces the ingame galaxy (not perfect) - I generate a volumetric particle cloud from an ingame screenshot (a kind of heightmap).
- Hud with customizable categories to filter the map [Optional]
- the HUD stay customisable to fit to any style (full CSS+HTML),
- systems colorizations using color attribute that can be set on each category and soon use color from ingame stellar type (if stellar type defined in JSon file for each system) [Optional]
- Show exploration routes (implemented but not on the demo, will be used on EDBoard) [Optional].
Demo:
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As a showcase for the app, I've create small Galnet News reader to localize where events take place in the human sphere. For that, I use the Galnet RSS feed, search inside content if there is known systems name, then showing the list of news with system localization (each couple of news/systems got a random color).
3D Map demos:
- Elite: Dangerous Milky Way
- Elite: Dangerous - Galnet 3D Galaxy Map
- performance test: data dump from EDSM
Sources:
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Sources on Github, please leave me a msg if you got problems to use it on third party projects (or for more needed features), will do my best to answer in time.
Screenshots:
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Every feedbacks and comments are welcome! atm it's a beta release, more features will be added soon.
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