Scripts

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This is what it looks like now. (the maths weren’t working correctly at this point, but it’s enough to give a picture of what it’s about)

-each pixel represents a 500×500 realspace area
-the end of each line with the bend is the ship’s position on the z axis
-the line drawn up or down towards the brighter x,y plane points the ship’s position x,y wise

The first thing that pops in mind is that the "zoom" is too far away, so the next step probably is to make it so that it follows your ship’s position and shows a closer view of things.

So, what do you think?

Oh my Jesus

Whoa, that is epic

XYZ is horizontal, vertical, depth. I think you had the axes around the wrong way…

But yes, that’s the kind of idea I had before. Something like that. I’m not sure how useful it would actually be… something to be determined!

Okay, I’ve returned to this thing and so far I’ve made a few upgrades:
-it now is centered on and follows the player ship,
-it now shows 18,000 realspace units in each dimension,
-it’s 3x the size (fills the screen in 1280×1024 resolution),
-it’s redirected to another window
-and it works with fleetradar instead of the regular one.

Edit:
-different colors for different shiptypes done.

I’ve always liked to see a script that tells or shows me just how much more I can fit into a container. I don’t know how the game stores that, whether it is based on weight or number of items, but I would like to be able to see how much more or how many more I can fit into a container when I look in it.

This one sounds more like something that should go to the MUD’s code itself…

BUT

if you want to make something like this client side, you’ll have to make a script to create a database of all items you can possibly think of (with weights and/or sizes, depending on what containers’ fill capacity is related to). Then there’d probably be a script to work with something an "examine" on a container fires up… fetching info from said database, then adding and finally slipping a ColourTell into the output.

Oh, I guess there should be another database for container capacities too