What ever happened to the starmap? I remember a while back an in game 3D starmap in the works. From the old videos it looked pretty much done. Any word on when we will see that for the community?asked by Christopher Mallec

Good question. The star map, that was sort of an early prototype that we had mocked up inside the engine. It's not something that I'm ready to share yet. First of all we've got a bunch more stuff to do with it in terms of fleshing out all our systems and making sure that we're happy with them, but also just in terms of the interface and how it works so we're actually doing a lot of work right now on what we call our holo-renderer which is the system that's going to be rendering 3d holographic objects as well as data and text on it and that's going to form pretty much all of our systems so that would be the Mobiglas that you have as you run around and you've seen in the fiction. Sort of your first person HUD if you've got a combat suit on. Your ship HUD, which is when you're flying the ship, and we kind of want it all to sort of have this, whether it's an Iron Man feel or a Minority Report feel, or like you've seen in Prometheus with the holo-stuff. But the idea is there's a lot of floating objects that you can manipulate and move around and obviously the holotable, the equipment device in the hangar was very preliminary sort of work and a prototype of using some of this stuff. But we're doing stuff that's well beyond that. There's going to be much cooler which we haven't shown you guys yet and that will also be something that would drive the starmap and the 3d maps and when you're inside your ship and stuff like that. So it will be a while before we show it to you, but when you see it I think you'll be pretty happy, it's pretty cool.