spacemap software/image templates

Can anybody direct me to a site with demo/shareware or freeware software for making spacemaps? Image templates would be a last resort but I'll take info on those as well.

I'm basically working on a rpg campaign which I intend to post to the web, maybe publish in the future, and I'm looking for an easy way to do a map. I have access to Photoshop, but if I wanted to do it the hard way I might as well make the final map. Something I'm not sure I'm ready for right now. I've tried some software in the past but most of it is only good for random stuff, and worse most of it was DOS software which I can barely run anymore. If you know of anything that will help me, I'd appreciate the information.

Lockhart

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I guess what you need here depends a lot on what you want your end result to look like.

Can you give us some more info what you are trying to achieve?
2D with a nice starfield for a background? Pseudo-3D with a cube outline and stars placed in it? Sector maps or a map of the whole quadrant or even the whole galaxy?
Things like that.

Well 2D is great since I didn't have any relational numbers for a third axis in my initial notes.

Basically I need sector maps and a galaxy map, although what is currently explored is closer to a Trek quadrant in size. It's the milky way, but I changed the names of systems except for Sol so I could play with locations more initially. If I had to, I could easily pick real stars for most of the major planets I already have.

I was hoping to find a program where I could enter data about specific stars, and then generate images in different scales (so I could put info in once and generate sector or galaxy sized maps). It'd be cool if there was a solar system level attached, but honestly I can do that with a database program since I don't need solar system maps for the campaign (at least not yet)

Lockhart

Somebody SIGnaled me? :D

Well what kind of stellar info are you after?

I tend to do a lot of Trek mapwork. If you follow the link in my sig and its associated links. Then you will find an abundance of maps ;)

Otherwise just ask away and I'll see what I can do for you.

Check out Campaign Cartographer 2 demo, available from Pro Fantasy Software. It is the comprehensive mapping solution for role playing games. It is well worth the price. But that is for doing stuff by hand.

Heaven and Earth seems more like what you are looking for, though.

Or perhaps It's Full Of Stars is what you are looking for.

It's Full of Stars seems to be just what I was looking for. Thank you. I've never found this program in hours of websurfing.

Lockhart