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Major Payn
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Hello!

I am making a space RTS, and I have been looking for a good map of the solar system to use in an in-game info screen. I tried searching on Google, but believe it or not, I cannot find anything worthwhile! Every map I find is some fancy flash or HTML map, that has you click each planet, I just want a single image, that I can save and edit. If you know of any such map, please post it. Thanks!

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erm yeah

if you position a camera to see all the planets they will be so small that you will not be able to see them. .'. there is no map..

this might help: http://www.nineplanets.org/

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well I understand that, but there must be a map out there somewhere that shows all the planets in their "general" positions. Oh and thanks for the link, but I have already been there, and It didn't have what I was looking for.

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well if you get the statistics from them you can make it in dbp, divide the distances by say 100000 in metres and size 10 spheres to something around 1 (say 10 for the sun) so you can see them all. then make them look right, texture etc and then you have a 3D map

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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 09:19
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or I could just find a simple map with all the planets lined up, and use that, problem is, I can't find one

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Seriously making one wouldn't take too long

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and it would save you a job as neofish said!

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There is no such map. If Earth were 1 pixel on such a map, your screen would have to stretch down the block to see the pixel that is Mars.


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That's what I tried to say which is why it is better to make your own bodged version

*inspiration* im going to make a space based mini game

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I don't think anybody gets what I am saying, I don't want a realistic map, with any kind of distance scale or what not, I just want pictures of all the planets right next to each other in the order that they go, and their name next to em, not a realistic map.

I might have to make my own, I am just afraid it won't turn out very good, as I have yet to understand how you import other pictures into your current image in Gimp.

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I would still make one in DBP didn't someone make a planet model creator recently?

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First result of a google image search for 'solar system'. That would have taken about one fifth the time it did to make this post and pass the buck.

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rofl

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I totally forgot that you could search images , thanks!

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you forgot image search? how did you manage that?

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Well I have firefox, and it has that little quick google search box up in the right hand corner, it doesn't give you an image option, and I use that a lot, so I often forget the options found on the actuall web site.

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it does at the top of the page once u've hit enter...

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