Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:30 pm
pathfinding between systems
hey. 
2 or 3 days ago i posted somewhere about whether anyone has found out about the systems_shortest_path.ini and the other such files, but since i had ISP trouble i could only check for replies today and the topic has misteriously disappeared. if it was deleted, i don't know why.
anyway, this isn't just a redundant topic. i'm posting this in the editing tutorial forum because i have found it out. it's simpler than i thought, embarrassingly simple actually
the confusion was caused by the fact that it seems like that every line is just a random list of systems. i have found out that the first 2 systems are paramters: the first one is the source system, and the 2nd one is the destination. from then on it's a sequential list of systems to go through. i haven't yet found why there are 3 different inis for this (shortest path [108k, shortest legal path [46k, shortest illegal path [110k). i think the shortest legal path is only for "official" stuff, like it uses jump gates instead of jump holes (which is quite annoying in the omicron systems). but the difference between the shortest illegal path and systems shortest path files is still unknown.
anyway, the project i talked about (TradeStuff) is pretty functional now, but i don't know where should i post it. it's not really a mod, it's not really a tutorial, and it's not really an utility. it's rather a helper webpage. so where should i post it?
weird sig.
2 or 3 days ago i posted somewhere about whether anyone has found out about the systems_shortest_path.ini and the other such files, but since i had ISP trouble i could only check for replies today and the topic has misteriously disappeared. if it was deleted, i don't know why.
anyway, this isn't just a redundant topic. i'm posting this in the editing tutorial forum because i have found it out. it's simpler than i thought, embarrassingly simple actually
the confusion was caused by the fact that it seems like that every line is just a random list of systems. i have found out that the first 2 systems are paramters: the first one is the source system, and the 2nd one is the destination. from then on it's a sequential list of systems to go through. i haven't yet found why there are 3 different inis for this (shortest path [108k, shortest legal path [46k, shortest illegal path [110k). i think the shortest legal path is only for "official" stuff, like it uses jump gates instead of jump holes (which is quite annoying in the omicron systems). but the difference between the shortest illegal path and systems shortest path files is still unknown.
anyway, the project i talked about (TradeStuff) is pretty functional now, but i don't know where should i post it. it's not really a mod, it's not really a tutorial, and it's not really an utility. it's rather a helper webpage. so where should i post it?
weird sig.