The Haven Map Project just opened up the admin/sub-admin account creation to be used by communities, you can still submit personal uploads to the map without having to create an account. However a discord user name will be required for security purposes/grief prevention, which is explained better below through the link.
As a result, the folk behind the project have published a User Guide which I think will explain to everyone here, better than I could, the power and flexibility of the program.
Another programmer also JUST got in touch, offering their python script up to be used within the 3d maps software.
Their python script has reverse engineered how the game generates region names. Currently, we have to take note of region names, then after a star system has been accept onto the map, we can apply its region name. This wonderful donation will save a lot of time if it can pull this info from glyphs alone <3
I’ve been actively participating in the 3d map project for just a week and seen it grown so much, the form for data submission has gotten more user friendly and the map is slowly gaining more functionality with search terms and filters.
Here’s a recent snap of whats been shared to the 3d map (we all seem to like hanging out in the outer-ish rim :P)
It’s actually a Region map, on its top layer. The brighter a dot, the more charted regions in that area. NMS regions are placed in a grid like fashion that isn’t noticeable in game.
Here’s a side view of the regions I’ve logged from my Permadeath game to give an example
Clicking a region will then bring you into its star chart. Here’s one from two very busy cartographers with 250 systems in it (I’ve seen ones from GalHub with almost 600 stars!)
(dont mind the white glyphs bottom right, I have chrome set to experimental mode > force dark mode, and it does this with thumbnails sometimes)
Another fun fact I learned from the map…
The Dimensions of a NMS Galaxy is roughly the same as a Pizza Box. Which is the most crunch mode game dev answer to “what shape is the universe” I’ve ever heard.
“It’s just stacked pizza boxes the whole way down maaaaan”