Biggest SE4 Map Ever!

[Suicide Junkie]

See it at:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/committee

This map shows the entire known galaxy in the Play By Committee game ( http://invirtuo.cc/se4/index.php ), at sector-level resolution.
IE: You can see individual ships and planets!
The planets and warppoint names are all there, and fully legible.

The most incredible thing about it:
The file fits on a floppy disk!!!

Yes, only One Thousand kilobytes, less than one true megabyte!
Modem Users can now get a HUMOUNGOUS map with exquisite detail, in approximately 200 seconds!

Warning!
This innocent-looking, tiny little file contains an image 10,000 x 6500 pixels in size!
Yes, that's right, 65 million pixels, so if your screen is set to 32-bit color, you're looking at 250 megs of information!!!

Just listen to these rave reviews:
"It is big... it is cool what can be done with jpeg2000" - Greg
"Umm... Dunno, its just a big picture" - Fyron
"Attempting to open that with the recommended program made my work computer very, very unhappy." - Loser

The warning label is not just for show, folks. Be sure to have 250 megs of free space for windows to make a swap file, and expect to wait about a minute for it to fully display.

And, all from a 1 meg Jpeg2000 image file.
Wheee!

[ January 01, 2004, 01:54: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Paul1980au]

Wow what a big map - what is the absolute upper limit in terms of the amount of sectors or planets that is able to put via a map editor and playable in the game. I found my game sometimes locks up at the more advanced stages of the game with a map that has quite a few black holes (perhaps i should leave these out ?)

[Will]

Hmm... sweet. Only took 20 seconds for me, but that's most likely due to the 750MB free RAM

[Paul1980au]

Wow i really need to upgrade my system (64MB of ram on a 533 system) really old 3 years old - adding another 128MB ram next week and eventually the processor graphics card and motherboard. SO it should run quickly.

Something id like to see in SE5 is more diverse and actually a extra huge map with 800 Plus solar systems.

[Suicide Junkie]

255 systems is the limit, with at least 255 objects in each.

If you've got the latest patch, and you manage to get a savegame that generates the lockup consistently, be sure to send it to Aaron.
You definitely need a savegame, though, or there is no chance of it being reproducable.

[Atrocities]

The link is dead below.

[Suicide Junkie]

It happens occasionally ... I've rebooted the server now.

[Atrocities]

Thanks man.