Adoxa's "Territory" and "Zone" plugins

Just send me the ids_name-edited file and let me test the same thing you’re testing.

Okay. I found the first three zones above (using 9, 8 and H) to work as expected. The last zone (G) showed up as blank. Aha! However, that was due to the edited ids_name being overridden by its original (590037). Removing that showed the new name of that zone (Zone_Li07_Quarry_West) - it has spacedust, so was given precedence over Zone_Li07_Fargo_exclusion. I didn’t experience repeated names.

Now, after all that, I rewrote Zone so that it initially displays all the zones you’re in, in decreasing order of size. It also treats a name of a single space as no name (for those tradelane zones) and fixes the remapping.

Its caused by some of the vanilla tradelane zones having an ids_name specified. deleting the line (or adding your own specifics) cures it and tadelane zones dont really need names, also Zone_Bw01_Tradelane_1 has the same issue - maybe more haven’t checked through them all yet.

message is 60246 in resources

as in you have “left” zone

not because its a left tradelane ring
edited for writing bs

Moonhead wrote:
Weird, I couldn’t find it with FLED-IDs. Oh wait, iirc FLED-IDs doesn’t check resources.dll. I thought common.dll was the relevant one that was missing, so I used Hex Workshop to look into it. Totally forgot about resources.dll. Why can’t FLED-IDs look into it anyway?

FLED-IDs only reads the dlls specified in the in [Resources] of the corresponding freelancer.ini.
So adding “DLL = resources.dll” in that section will do the job.

Moonhead wrote:
Reminds me I still gotta try swapping those trade lane rings 90°. It would make more sense if they were juxtaposed horizontally. Then Liberty and Rheinland should have Right lanes, and Bretonia and Kusari Left lanes

AFAIK there are issues with this… because the ship will bank/spin/turn its vertical axis to that of the vanilla-vertical-Tradelane and such… Don´t know if this has been already fixed…

Greetings J.R.

I can confirm that horizontal trade lanes work just fine. We’re using them in Broken Bonds.

As to the to subject at hand. We’ve been using the Territory plugin for a while, and the update is very much welcome. As always, adoxa, awesome stuff!

In my mod the Galileo System is not independent but devided as shown in the image (the blue circles are dark matter clouds, and the red line is the interterritorial border).

So when you enter from the Shikoku gate you’re in Kusari, and when you enter from the Colorado gate you’re in Liberty.

If this is the case, in any system (even if it’s crossed by multiple interterritorial borders), would it be possible to expand the territory plugin, or somehow different, to show a message when you enter another territory within the system?

Have you tried to add named zones which are named, for example “Galileo-System, Kusari” etc.?

@Skotty

Thanks for your reply. But I mean a message is only shown when you enter/leave territory, not for any zone.

For example, when a zone has comment = Territory.

I don’t think Zone is quite suited to this, but that’s more how it would work - entering the system would have the normal message, then it would show the territory. I think it could be specified something like:

[System]
; I hope a simple 2d-style border is enough.
border = x1,z1, x2,z2[, ...]	; line segments of the border
territory = Name	; actual name of this territory
pos = x, z	; indicate which side of the border it's on
territory_id = id	; id of another territory
pos = x, z	; optional for the last

; a three-way split would duplicate each common path
;    x1,z1
;      |
;    x2,z2
;    /   \
; x3,z3 x4,z4
border = x1,z1, x2,z2, x3,z3
border = x1,z1, x2,z2, x4,z4
border = x3,z3, x2,z2, x4,z4

```However, I still don't know if I actually want to do it…

@adoxa
It was just an idea that popped into my head to expand the possibilities of the ‘territory’ plugin, but do not implement it because it may get buggy (see my next post)

nice format though
greetings

Gold_Sear

adoxa wrote:

I don’t think Zone is quite suited to this, but that’s more how it would work - entering the system would have the normal message, then it would show the territory. I think it could be specified something like:

[System]
; I hope a simple 2d-style border is enough.
border = x1,z1, x2,z2[, ...] ; line segments of the border
territory = Name ; actual name of this territory
pos = x, z ; indicate which side of the border it's on
territory_id = id ; id of another territory
pos = x, z ; optional for the last

; a three-way split would duplicate each common path
;    x1,z1
;      |
;    x2,z2
;    /   \
; x3,z3 x4,z4
border = x1,z1, x2,z2, x3,z3
border = x1,z1, x2,z2, x4,z4
border = x3,z3, x2,z2, x4,z4

However, I still don’t know if I actually want to do it…

About this, it may get buggy when the border lines overlap, see the image below (I apologize for not seeing this earlier). The game crashes or a third (nameless) territory would be created instead.

@adoxa
Anyhow, thanks for showing some detailed results regarding the code to specify the borders. Hope it doesn’t have bothered you too much?

When you have two zones of the same name overlapping, you’ll still get the entered/left messages, like this

Entered Zone A

followed by
Entered Zone A

followed by
Left Zone A

followed by
Left Zone A

This is kinda annoying when you want to make a zone of particular shape (like a triangle, for example). Strangely though, zones with exactly the same size and shape do not trigger an entered message.

BTW does anyone know how to use the ‘MESH’ zone shape?

When you have two zones of the same name overlapping, you’ll still get the entered/left messages

Fixed.

BTW does anyone know how to use the ‘MESH’ zone shape?

It’s not supported (and generates a big spew).