From - Mon Oct 2 07:56:55 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from uucp@localhost) by fagerborg.fager.nett.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with UUCP id AAA28304 for stein@fager.nett.com; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:25:35 +0200 Received: (from stein@localhost) by trollmor.terminator.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA12500 for jumbo; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:13:21 +0200 Received: from castor.altaira.com (castor.altaira.com [199.4.132.201]) by trollmor.terminator.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA12496 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:13:19 +0200 Received: from altaira.com (IDENT:mkitchin@sisyphus.altaira.com [199.4.132.71]) by castor.altaira.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01974 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:12:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3999BFD0.2000000@altaira.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:10:24 -0400 From: "Michael J. Kitchin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15-4mdksmp i686; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stein@terminator.net Subject: Usefule enhancement to random universe generator script (w/diff...) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080505030702000401000403" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080505030702000401000403 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050806050805020905090700" --------------050806050805020905090700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be of use to you, I dunno. The random universe script on your site authored by Keith Seymour is nice, but the generated system/planet names are unfortunately systematic ("System 32 Planet 7", etc.). I made a small alteration to the script to read system names from a text file and use roman numerals for planet numbers. I've included both that diff and my test name set, consisting of both stars from visible constellations and somewhat obscure city names in the US (517 total). Basically, they look cool when generated. The new code assumes that there are at least as many names as generated systems, btw :) Hope this is of some value! -- Regards, -MjK - - - - - - "...and for my next trick..." Michael J. Kitchin (Director, SSE) Altair Aerospace Corporation mailto:mkitchin@altaira.com http://www.altaira.com --------------050806050805020905090700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This may be of use to you, I dunno. The random universe script on your site authored
by Keith Seymour is nice, but the generated system/planet names are unfortunately
systematic ("System 32 Planet 7", etc.). I made a small alteration to the script to read
system names from a text file and use roman numerals for planet numbers. I've included
both that diff and my test name set, consisting of both stars from visible constellations
and somewhat obscure city names in the US (517 total). Basically, they look cool when
generated. The new code assumes that there are at least as many names as generated
systems, btw :)

Hope this is of some value!
-- 

					Regards,
					-MjK

- - - - - -

"...and for my next trick..."

Michael J. Kitchin (Director, SSE)
Altair Aerospace Corporation
mailto:mkitchin@altaira.com
http://www.altaira.com
--------------050806050805020905090700-- --------------080505030702000401000403 Content-Type: text/plain; name="univrand.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="univrand.diff" 27a28 > open (NAMES," $sector_x_num = 8; #number of sectors high for universe > $sector_y_num = 4; #number of sectors wide for universe 35c36 < $system = 60; # number of systems to be created --- > $system = 480; # number of systems to be created 38c39 < $max_obj = 8 - $min_obj; # max number of objects per system --- > $max_obj = 10 - $min_obj; # max number of objects per system 44,45c45,46 < $min_drone = 20; # min number of drones < $max_drone = 80 - min_drone; # max number of drones --- > $min_drone = 60; # min number of drones > $max_drone = 100 - min_drone; # max number of drones 51c52 < $nebula = 12; # number of nebulas to be created --- > $nebula = 96; # number of nebulas to be created 53c54 < $wormhole = 8; # number of wormhole SETS to be created ; NOTE: while this script will set --- > $wormhole = 64; # number of wormhole SETS to be created ; NOTE: while this script will set 72c73,74 < $sysnum = 0; --- > @plname = qw( I II III IV V VI > VII VIII IX X XI XII ); 73a76 > $sysnum = 0; 80c83,87 < $name = "System $sys"; --- > > $sysname = ; > $sysname =~ tr/\015\012//d; > > $name = "$sysname"; 212a220 > 214c222 < $name = "System $sys Planet $pl"; --- > $name = "$sysname $plname[($pl-1)]"; 347c355 < $name = "System $sys Planet $pl"; --- > $name = "$sysname $plname[($pl-1)]"; 474c482 < $name = "System $sys StarBase $sb"; --- > $name = "$sysname StarBase $sb"; 656c664 < $name = "System $sys StarPort $sp"; --- > $name = "$sysname StarPort $sp"; 783c791 < $name = "System $sys StarDock $sd"; --- > $name = "$sysname StarDock $sd"; 1075c1083 < $name = "System $sys Asteroid $as"; --- > $name = "$sysname Asteroid $as"; 2265c2273,2274 < close SCRIPT; \ No newline at end of file --- > close SCRIPT; > close NAMES; --------------080505030702000401000403 Content-Type: text/plain; name="names.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; 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