Where are the planet descriptive infocards referenced?
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For example, Planet Gammu and Planet Primus use Planet Junyo’s descriptive infocards (65820) But I can’t find it referenced anywhere in the Universe or system inis. I also can’t find it in the mbases.ini or any other ini files for that matter.
The ids_info cards for the planets are referenced in the system.ini files but they only throw the description of the planet body itself, not the information topic such as:Junyo is almost entirely covered by a deep ocean that remains liquid across the planet’s entire surface due to the young, hot Shikoku sun. While initially dismissed as infeasible for further development, the impending collapse of fisheries throughout Kusari in 630 AS motivated the government to begin terraforming the planet using recently discovered Alien Organisms in order to jump-start the nascent ecology. Within 50 years, the planetary environment had been sufficiently altered to begin wide-scale production of Luxury Foods under the administration of Samura, a company that refuses to concede the market to the competing Liberty firm of Synth Foods.
So, if I wanted to create a description like that above, where would I put the reference?
Thx.
R
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Infocardmap.ini in the Interface folder?
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Bows.
R
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Fill-in info for anyone who needs it and does not understand this reply:-
The ids_info entry in the system’s .ini file points to the stats infocard for the planet. Let’s use Planet New London as an example.
ids_info = 65719
This is the statistical infocard, it is in infocards.dll and it says:-
“DIAMETER: 10,723 km.
MASS: 4.90 x 10e24 kg.
TERRAIN: Terrestrial
TEMPERATURE: -46°C to 43°C
ESCAPE VELOCITY: 10.27 km/sec”For the detailed info, FL looks in DATA\INTERFACE\infocardmap.ini to find the entry number 65719, and finds…
Map = 65719, 65720
The second number 65720 points to the card that says:-
“New London is the seat of the Bretonian government, but almost as important, it is the heart of the Bretonian way of life. Despite the pollution resulting from years of industrialization, the vast majority of the Bretonian aristocracy lives here, and even the most impoverished citizen is comfortably middle class. Most of the population works in the Bretonian bureaucratic aristocracy, an almost impenetrable network of obscure titles, government offices, and rules of procedure. Because of – or perhaps despite – this, all of the major Bretonian companies, including Bowex and Bretonia Mining and Metals (BMM), have offices on New London. The police and military also have their organizational headquarters here.”
The two numbers do not need to be in sequence, the detail card will be found as long as you make the correct entry in infocardmap.ini
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Well, I’ve almost got it…
I have 5 bases in a system, one of which shows both parts of the infocards.
IE, the base description, then the list of stuff they sell/buy, and finally the narrative description of the base.The other four just show the first infocard.
The infocards exist in my *.dll file and they’re referenced properly in the infocardmap.ini file, but only the one shows up when scanning the base.
I tried placing them in numerical order but that didn’t fix it. There’s no whitespace in the infocardmap.ini file.
The infocard numbers are not in any numerical sequence, ie, 123456, 123457
they are more often than not in a random order such as 123456, 123548, etc.I thought I might have to rework the whole dll in order to get them in numerical order but when I checked, the one base that works has the numbers 460923, 460931, so I don’t think it’s a sequential thing.
Update: Never mind the above stuff. You have to dock on the bases before the other stuff shows up. All is well.
R
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Did u dock on the other 3 bases?
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Yeppers. Note the update note in my last post.
I figured out what the issue was. The second card shows up after you dock on the base.
