Custom Maps | V1.1

Introduction

This craft can generate maps of any object (planets, moons, stars) in JNO (including mods). It works by scanning the planet and setting each individual pixel on the MfD to represent the height or the color of the terrain. This gives you many new possibilities of visualizing tracks, adding markers and much more. This version can even generate Ultra High-Resolution maps with a resolution of up to 36000 × 18000 pixels - that's a lot more than any screen could render. Also included now is an automatic (optional) brightness correction that makes color maps a lot more realistic.

The Maps

Color Map:

A normal map. To generate a color map, the vizzy scans the terrain colors of the planet and shows that color (optionally with corrected brightness) on the MfD.

Height Map:

A map representing the terrain height. It scans for the terrain heights and calculates a color that is drawn on the MfD. Green means over sea level, blue means sub sea level. Darker colors represent mountains (or deep sea), lighter colors represent flat land (or shallow sea).

Resolutions

V1.1 supports a variety of resolutions. To change the resolution, activate AG 5 ("Set Resolution") and enter your desired resolution. To avoid white lines on the map, I recommend additionally clicking on AG 6 ("Correct Resolution") before generating the map.

Supported Resolutions:

Anything from 360 × 180 pixels to 39840 × 19920 pixels. To further increase the limit, increase resolution in the MfD's tinker panel.

Recommended Resolutions:

I recommend not using resolutions above 4000 × 2000 pixels since anything higher than that will take an eternity to render. Also, you might want to check your screen's resolution - your screen would downgrade anything above its own resolution anyway.