Naming trading lanes

Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:41 am by Racoon

Hi all,
I just created a new system by copying another one and renaming it through new entries into nameresources.dll (tons of empty place there). Worked perfectly until it came to naming trade lanes. These still use the old names because I found no INI to call the new DLL entries (although those entries also exist for the original systems in nameresources.dll).
Can anyone hint me to the right place to call the trade lane names?

Thnx,
Racoon

Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:48 pm by Racoon

*bump*
Doesn't anybody know? Also when exiting a trade lane or a jump gate it still reports the original name of the place (but uses the altered system name... strange!).

Any help appreciated,
Racoon

Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:43 pm by X-Lancer

This is just a guess!

Tradlanes work in chains. Their names are made up dynamically because when you click on one side of a tradelane ring you see one name (Source->destination) and when you click on the other side you get the reverse.
Suppose you have a tradelane going from manhattan to fort bush consisting of 3 rings.

[object
;the first ring, starts in Mahnattan
nickname = tradelane_ring_1
tradelane_space_name = <Manhattan ids_name> ;<== this is where you put "Planet Manhattan" string
next_ring = tradelane_ring_2

[object
;2nd ring, no name needed, will be made dynamically
nickname = tradelane_ring_2
next_ring = tradelane_ring_3
prev_ring = tradelane_ring_1

[object
;the last ring in Fort Bush
nickname = tradelane_ring_3
tradelane_space_name = <Fort Bush ids_name>
prev_ring = tradelane_ring_2

Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:08 pm by Racoon

Thanx a lot... you saved my day (err.. night).

Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:53 pm by Archanon

yeah... that's the correct way

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