tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post3128068976860467670..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: ProjectionAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-54280630160763305702011-09-07T16:58:55.189-06:002011-09-07T16:58:55.189-06:00Thank you Gilgamec,
Kees fixed it yesterday and I...Thank you Gilgamec,<br /><br />Kees fixed it yesterday and I was in the middle of updating the post today when I saw your comment.<br /><br />You're right about the equator. When you count down from the poles you get a fraction of a hex around the equator, which north and south makes that ring of hexes a little larger than reality. But the problem is solved by shrinking the earth a tiny bit.<br /><br />Being a DM I can do that.<br /><br />That angular distortion you talk about it why a lot of the maps look a bit odd ... India, I am finding, drifts towards the right the further south you go. But the solution is to remember that north is not at the "top" of the map you're looking at, but always towards the center ring.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-49015318289785069362011-09-07T16:39:57.372-06:002011-09-07T16:39:57.372-06:00If I remember your projection correctly, you have ...If I remember your projection correctly, you have a twenty-mile hex centered at the north pole, then work your way south in rings of increasing number of hexes to the equator. When I tried to reproduce it, the problem I found was that (of course) it's not an even multiple of 10 miles from the pole to the equator, so you don't get a ring centered on the equator, but a partial ring. If you try to attach the maps centered on the north and south poles, then, you get a ring of something that aren't hexes at the equator. I don't know if you have a solution to this; in my case, I just slightly increased the size of the Earth to make it an even number of hexes from the pole to the equator.<br /><br />Besides that, you seem to be describing the projection accurately: the biggest distortion is indeed the east-west stretching (which reaches something like 50% at the equator), with all of the angular distortion stuck along the 30-90-etc. degree lines of longitude. (Fortunately, the southern hemisphere has almost no land along these lines, so it'll be easier to navigate down there.)<br /><br />Is your sneaking suspicion assuaged?gilgamechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830000192356219322noreply@blogger.com