This was one of my favourite projects to work on. Like so many, I grew up with Star Wars and loved the expansive galaxy. I had seen several maps, but I had never seen one that was 3D that you could interact with. So I went about making it.
One side note. To create the planets I took pictures of tiles on the floor. Then I took those into blender and texturized spheres to create planets. What is great is that every time I walk over a certain tile at work I look down and say – hey, that’s Tatooine. With a lot of help from Craig McCabe I used CityEngine to make an iterative galaxy.
