- Clone the repo
- Install dependencies with
npm install - Start the server with
npm start - Open
localhost:4200in a browser
Run the build script with npm run build. It will produce a standalone Win, MacOS, and Linux executable in the build folder.
Control the camera with the mouse.
- Left Click + Drag to rotate
- Right Click + Drag to pan
- Scroll Wheel to zoom in/out
- Hover over a star to view its name
- Click a star to view its details
- Press space to reset the camera
When you first boot up Spore, the game procedurally generates a galaxy of 42,010 stars. For each star it generates a cStarRecord , which are saved in serialized form to a package file called stars.db.
Each star record keeps track of things like the type of the star, it's position in the galaxy, the number of planets, the ID of the empire that owns it, etc. This file is kept up to date with your galaxy's data as you play.
There is no randomness in the algorithm which determines the positions of stars, so each galaxy has stars in exactly the same places. Stars may also have one or more planets orbiting them; However, planets are not generated until you visit the star in the space stage.
- Each dot is a single star system, black hole, or proto-planetary disk.
- The galaxy is naturally very flat, so the y-axis is inflated in the renderer to make the stars appear slightly more spread-out.
- In the
resourcesfolder there is a work-in-progress 010 editor binary template for the cStarRecord file. - The template will not work on stars.db file due to it being compressed. It will work on the cStarRecord file that is inside the stars.db package (hash 0x0179D304), which you can extract with SporeModderFX or S3PE.
Skybox textures by Screaming Brain Studios on OpenGameArt (source)
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