Shortest Paths Between Systems...

Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:50 pm by Stryfe

Again I'm not sure if anyone has covered this one...

The best paths function on the nav map ( so i figure... ) uses systems_shortest_paths.ini

which uses the following format...

[SystemConnections
Path = Li01, Li01, Li01
Path = Li01, Li03, Li01, Li03
Path = Li01, Rh05, Li01, Li04, Iw01, Rh02, Rh01, Rh05
Path = Li01, Rh01, Li01, Li04, Iw01, Rh02, Rh01
Path = Li01, Rh03, Li01, Li04, Iw01, Rh02, Rh01, Rh03
Path = Li01, Br06, Li01, Li02, Iw04, Br02, Br01, Br04, Br06

So to get from Li01 ( New York ) to Rh03 ( Stuttgart ) it would set the following;

Path = (Starting Point) Li01, (Destination) Rh03, (Route) Li01, Li04, Iw01, Rh02, Rh03

as for the shortest_legal_path.ini and shortest_illegal_path.ini, i think these are for non-player traffic, the legal being the police, navy etc and the illegal, those dastardly gaians,xenos,corsairs etc (pure conjecture on my part).

as for using jump holes instead of those police gates.. ummm anyone?

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:10 am by Thundercleese

Your guesses sound pretty good to me.

Is this what you're looking for?

DATA/MISSIONS/faction_prop.ini
jump_preference = jumphole

Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:16 am by Stryfe

TY thundercleese

i cant get it to source a best path to new systems tho...
(ones that i've created... hmm back to the drawing board)

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:43 pm by Stryfe

More thoughts on this subject....

Intra-system waypoints stored somewhere??
ive noticed in SP even if ive never been through a system before, that the best path function still lays a route through the system including the appropriate waypoints in that system, these however arent mentioned in the shortest path.ini files...

I.E the end of each trade lane is a way point etc...
where in teh heck is that stored?

Humph

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:58 pm by DataDroid

Also, I wish it would make shortest path tell you when to cut out of a tradelane. I almost always do that when I'm at right angles with my waypoint. It's much quicker that way.

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those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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