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[WhisperDSP]

Is it possible to scan through and only affect the player’s colonies?

Technically yes, but I don't recommend it: that would interface poorly with Nexerelin's ability for the player to capture NPC colonies. I'd think it'd be better to simply replace everything and just have your tech-mining implementation not do anything if it's not at a player-controlled colony.

Funny how a personal project has morphed into something that needs to be able to coexist with big mods. Originally I hadn’t thought of releasing - guess that I’ll have to now.

I’ll try to get it to replace everything. If someone wants to uninstall they can revert to a prior save - I’m probably not gonna be able to do better than that since some of the base TechMining code is static functions and cannot be overridden, only rewritten.

[rogerbacon]

Anyone know of any examples of visual effects that travel around a shield from the point of impact? For example, I want two particles (or whatever) to travel in different directions around the shield from the point it is hit by a shot.

[Wyvern]

Is it possible to scan through and only affect the player’s colonies?

Technically yes, but I don't recommend it: that would interface poorly with Nexerelin's ability for the player to capture NPC colonies. I'd think it'd be better to simply replace everything and just have your tech-mining implementation not do anything if it's not at a player-controlled colony.

Funny how a personal project has morphed into something that needs to be able to coexist with big mods. Originally I hadn’t thought of releasing - guess that I’ll have to now.

Oh, hah, that does change the context a bit, yeah. If it's only meant for personal use then sure! Do whatever! For that context, you could just use Alex's original suggestion of changing industries.csv and not worry about replacing existing installations; as long as you know what's going on, it's a non-issue.

[WhisperDSP]

Oh, hah, that does change the context a bit, yeah. If it's only meant for personal use then sure! Do whatever! For that context, you could just use Alex's original suggestion of changing industries.csv and not worry about replacing existing installations; as long as you know what's going on, it's a non-issue.

Naw, you-all have put the suggestions my way. It’d be rude to not at least try.

[WhisperDSP]

How do I determine if a colony/market is within 10ly of a Coronal Hypershunt?

-edit-

Actually don%u2019t worry - checking for this isn%u2019t necessary.

[presidentmattdamon]

is there an advance or GUI drawing listener/plugin that runs after all other advance methods?

[rogerbacon]

Can a projectile have more than one onHitEffect?

[SafariJohn]

It can only have one plugin, but that plugin can have as many effects as you want.

[bananana]

is there a way to somehow remove/change the "-class" part of the hull name for the specifiic ship?
so the getHullNameWithDashClass returns only the name, or some custom string instead of "-class" ?
for example, if i want to change the hound so everywhere in the ui where it shows "Hound-class"  it will instead show "Hound" or "Hound-senpai" or something equally silly

[WhisperDSP]

How do I write to the Starsector logfile?

The reason is in the attached image - my custom TechMining code gave me two Soil Nanites, when it should only have given one.



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[Ruddygreat]

How do I write to the Starsector logfile?

The reason is in the attached image - my custom TechMining code gave me two Soil Nanites, when it should only have given one.

import these 2 packages

Code

import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

and put this at the top of any class that you want to use logging in (then use log.debug("your message here") to actually log something)

Code

    private static final Logger log = Global.getLogger(<your classname here>.class);

    static {
        log.setLevel(Level.ALL);
    }

[rogerbacon]

I want to make a "goo gun". It fires projectiles that stick to a ship for ten seconds and slow it down. I'm pretty sure I can do the non-graphics stuff but I have some questions about sprites.

How do I attach a sprite to a ship and can I make it auto-remove after a certain time?

[WhisperDSP]

How do I write to the Starsector logfile?

The reason is in the attached image - my custom TechMining code gave me two Soil Nanites, when it should only have given one.

import these 2 packages

Code

import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

and put this at the top of any class that you want to use logging in (then use log.debug("your message here") to actually log something)

Code

    private static final Logger log = Global.getLogger(<your classname here>.class);

    static {
        log.setLevel(Level.ALL);
    }

Log4J vulnerability FTW LOL!

Thank you!

[WhisperDSP]

Logging found the issue:

Code

598329 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: Farmland - item_soil_nanites
598329 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: FINAL RESULT - item_soil_nanites
598329 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: Final item (if any) - item_soil_nanites
598329 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: Progress bar value - 0.100000024
598330 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: Special items so far - 1
598330 [Thread-3] DEBUG data.scripts.wta_industry.wta_TechMining  - wtaLOG: Enhanced multiplier - 1.5

It was the Enhanced Multiplier (multEnhanced) in here which was the issue - having 1.5 (first techmining find + Alpha AI + SP Improvement) gives single items an x2 multiplier, I suppose in the back-end somewhere it rounds up:

Code: java

CargoAPI result = SalvageEntity.generateSalvage(random, 1f, 1f, multEnhanced, 1f, dropValue, dropRandom);

Instead I put the multipliers into the drop value groups:

Code: java

    // what planets will have left over after a couple of centuries of sporadic looting and damage from combat/environment/meteors
    d = new DropData();
    d.chances = colonySize;
    d.group = "wta_ruins_sized";
    d.value = 10000 * ruinsSize;
    d.valueMult = multEnhanced;
    dropValue.add(d);

And changed to this:

Code: java

CargoAPI result = SalvageEntity.generateSalvage(random, 1f, 1f, 1f, 1f, dropValue, dropRandom);

Thanks!

PS: My logging code is now set up as follows, starting with my settings.json:

Code

{
	##############################################################
	# Settings for Whisper's Techmining Alteration
  # Tweak at your own risk
	##############################################################
	
  # the monthly rate at which ruins decay by size of ruins
  "wta_ruins_decayrate_scattered": 0.97,
  "wta_ruins_decayrate_widespread": 0.98,
  "wta_ruins_decayrate_expansive": 0.995,
  "wta_ruins_decayrate_vast": 0.9999,
  
  # whether to write to logfile (default false)
  "wta_logging": false,
}

And the code:

Code: java

  // when wta_logging in the settings.json is true, allow writing to logs
  public static boolean wta_logging = Global.getSettings().getBoolean("wta_logging");

  /*
   * code from Ruddygreat for logging
   */
  private static final Logger log = Global.getLogger(wta_TechMining.class);
  static {
    log.setLevel(Level.ALL);
  }
  
  // if wta_logging enabled write to starsector log
  private void wtaDebug(String message) {
    if (wta_logging) {
      log.debug(message);
    }
  }

[Zsar]

In a mod, I created a player.faction file with empty "known<stuff>" fields and expected to start a new game with no blueprints. I start with all vanilla "base_bp" blueprints. Why?

... Should I report this as a bug? The vanilla player.faction file contains the "base_bp" tag in all "tags" fields, so I kind of expected it to actually do something?