Freelancer Path Generator

yeah, thanks in advance, havent tried it yet but will soon

nice work chipsy! ;D ;D

I hate to say it but you aren’t going to get much feedback when it works right

Between moving house I got the chance to try this last night. Seems to work fine although I will need to get it into the beta test cycle to be sure. I noticed that it changed two things right away. The shortest_illegal_path went from 599kb to 4kb. No error checker turned up a problem. It fixed setting a distant galaxy far, far away ( :P) and having it lead me to the center of the current system, I had that problem in one system before.

So, nice work! You need to get bored and do this stuff more often! ;D

Chips,

If you feel up to it, may I request an .ini file editor like Tiny Fish’s 1.4 for your next 24-hour project?

For me it is the best ini editor available.

It has a tabbed “cellular” view like an excel spreadsheet that I love, I can copy & paste values vertically, and it is superb for comparing / checking / duplicating values for the same parameter for all sections. And it can switch to normal text editor view too.

It has many excellent features that should be kept.

But it also has some bugs which make it 90% instead of 100% :-

1. Opening a file smaller than the current one causes an error because the line pointer is not set to 1, it is kept at the current line number of the previous file - this causes the new file’s name not to be updated in the editor, and if the user then saves the new file it overwrites the previous file!

2. deleting the last line of the file gives an error because the line pointer is not updated.

3. editing data in the tabbed view and then switching to text does not reflect the changes there, so it messes the file up. (There is a menu option to update the changed data the other way, so changing from text to cellular view is OK but only when the user remembers to use the option. Making it automatic both ways would be best).

4. deleting one or more lines between other lines in the text view shifts the next line to the end of the previous one, instead of keeping in the line-feed/carriage return

5. when it can’t overwrite the old file it doesn’t tell you so but pretends it has done - so changes are lost.

6. when inadvertently adding data past the last line in tabbed view produces an error message that is not understandable

There may be more.

Wishful thinking that you might take this one on!

But it would be superb.

@ ST, try note tab light, it’s what I use instead of notepad.

Nothing else has Tinyfish’s cellular view. Try it and you will see what I mean, it saves tons of time.

Sorry to disappoint you, but locked holes are still not parsed correctly.

The path I mentioned in my last bug report is still bugged:

vanilla (SDK 1.5) path
Path = Br04, Rh05, Br04, Br01, Br03, Bw02, Bw04, Rh05

path from this tool
Path = br04, rh05, br04, br03, bw02, bw04, rh05

All in shortest illegal paths, br04_to_br03_hole is locked by FL default.

ive tested it yesterday the first time

correct me if im wrong but when i choose a different system on the nav map and create path to that system it really should create that patch from my current system to the next gate to the next system… … …

ive tried to let it calculate paths between systems with the only result that 1 single waypoint is on the map but no path to this waypoint
that happens even if the destination is just 1 system away

Not quite sure I follow you there Op. Do you mean you’re manually going to the next system via nav map, plonking down an “add waypoint” and it’s basically not plotting it? or is it doing it wrong somehow? Or does it put down the waypoint but no other waypoints? Or it plots multiple waypoints but no connection / continuation with them?

just a single waypoint (in the other system)
but no path leading to that waypoint

As I said earlier my trial worked fine, plotted paths to next system & back and also from a previously unvisited system far away back to where I was prior (moved my character using Ioncross Server Op & plotted my way back to charted systems) without problems.

So it’s unlikely that it would work in this simple one-system hop for one person and not another.

Could it be you have the first version Op?

i tried it from cf01 to several other systems
and i also tried it from Li01

both with the same results… and yeah i think it was the latest available version