Utilities/Game setup
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Game setup utilities
Genesis
A spiral galaxy creator for Stars!
Map2XY
- download map2xy.zip 66kb
- offsite download at sourceforge
- homepage: stars-utils at sourceforge
- author:LEit
Map2XY will take a .xy file and a .map file and modify the .xy file to match the .map file. This allows moving planets on the y axis (north/south) quite a bit, since you cannot change the order of the planets, the x axis isn't too modifiable, except you could stretch or compress the universe. It also allows renaming the planets, to other Stars! names only.
Mapper
- download mapper07.exe v0.7 88kb
- homepage: Stars R Us
Recreates the xy universe file from a GIF file. Also allows the xy file to be exported to a GIF.
Star Name Changer
Allows you to change the names of your stars/planets in Stars! games. This only affects your XY file, so if you want the changes to apply to everyone, they will need to receive the updated XY file. Zip file contains instructions, and different versions for different operating systems.
Universe Creator
- download uc.zip v1.3 58kb
- homepage: DStars! (offline)
A great utility that allows hosts to not only model the galaxy off a bitmap, but also allows them to move homeworlds around. There are some restrictions as to where the new homeworlds are placed.
Stars Editor
- download dlStarEd.zip v1.2 53kb
- requires Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Libraries
- homepage: Pirates Retreat
- author: Stuart Douglas
Complete component and hull editor for Stars! with a an easy to use interface (works with both I and JRC3 patches), modifications can be saved into a small .MOD file, which can be distributed to players to modify their own exe's with. (Note: It's best to keep an unedited copy of stars on your harddisk)
