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You can adjust the frequency and types of objects generated. If you haven't already, I'd recommend downloading the trial version to see how the sector generation works.
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In general, there's 2 ways to read/write external data. The first is to use the scripting API. From within a script you'd read an external file and set up the objects in your map. Or, you'd read the objects on your map and then write it to an e…
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Well, v2 just came out, so there's no short term plans for any major feature enhancements. My primary goal for The Keep right now is to get the HTML API documented. The Keep has a system in place that lets you create custom topic types using HTML …
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Hi Geo, yes Astro runs well in Windows 10.
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Hmm, no, not directly. You can tweak the Terraforming level up to its highest setting, which will generate more hospitable planets (which tend to have higher populations). But there's no way in the interface to 'bias' the generator towards higher …
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Try something like this: #plugin Orbit Example #author NBOS #desc Example of using Orbit class DoOrbitStuff Sub DoOrbitStuff body = EditingBody() If IsNull( body) Then Exit Sub orbit = body.GetOrbit() For i = 1 to 10 'set the time …
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If you don't mind some scripting, there's an Orbit object that can be created in a script that will give you absolute x, y, and z coordinates at a given time. You'd have to 'brute force' the orbits through time to check distances to get the periods…
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Fractal Mapper doesn't generate maps per se. So if you wanted a map of a particular projection, you'd need to draw out the projection lines yourself. Fractal World Explorer does generate planet maps, but does not support different projections. …
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For web pages, The Keep uses an embedded IE. So it should support the same features as the version of IE you have installed.
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If you have a small sample sector that displays the problem, email it to the support address. There's no need for snark. If there's a problem with the calculations I'll fix them. But every test I've run has them correct (for speed it doesn't calc…
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Astro's "AstroDB" files are SQLite databases. They can be accessed using most programming languages and some database tools. The table structure should be pretty straight forward. You can also use the XML export plugin that ships with Astro (Plug…
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brothercool wrote: Don't count on it. Ed_NBOS has made it very clear in the past that AstroSyn is mapping software and not a simulator...and he doesn't want to add too much to each new version. I basically got laugh at when I asked for database im…
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Alternon wrote: With the ability we have now to screen mirror to a large television this is a great resource for GMs and players. However, in System View the planets are fairly hard to see. Would it be possible to have a "cartoony" display option …
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Honestly, there really weren't any plans to ever add them. What do you mean by an animated texture? Like a fire pattern?
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Yes, declare the javascript variables first with "var", like "var Total". Otherwise you are creating global variables that can be accessed elsewhere in the script. Also, remember in the JavaScript code, you need to reference the fields like …
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This is fixed now. The docs got left out during the recent site upgrade.
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You can download it here:
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It looks like our web host made an update which interfered with the downloads section. The downloading is fixed, uploading may be a few days until its fixed.
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It works after a small change. Change the names of the fields in the code to Edit1.Text and Edit3.Text since javascript is case sensitive.
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Actually, my bad. I think what you want is function calcPower() { if (edit1.Text == 'Power') { return edit3.Text; } else { return ''; } } When used as a field source, the function Is run and the result of the functi…
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Yes, you can use maps created with FM in published works. See:
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I think you are looking for something like this (assuming version 2 of the designer) function calcPower() { if (edit1.Text == 'Power') { edit2.Text = edit3.Text } } and then the field source would be: js:calcPower()
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Do you mean the list of the fields on the left? Yes, I can add that in. It also can be resized right now. (Sorry for the delay in replying, was away for a couple of weeks)
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You would need to use an Update event in javascript to set the new list name for the fields. In the update event, you'd look at the value of the field in question and change the list names of the other fields accordingly.
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You can reference the field by the name it has in the designer. So for a field named Strength, you'd do: var a = Strength.value
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Is there a tool to convert from HTML to whatever it is that wiki's support? Otherwise you'd need to build a script, or perhaps easier, an external tool to read from the AstroDB file.
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I took care of this. The fix will be in the next (first) update. I also tweaked the output to add a line break between the topics and the next item, and removed that hard coded file that was in there from testing.
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Yes to 1-3, no to 4, 5... sort of. You can hide pages from printing, so you can make non-printable worksheets. Its a free program... so probably easiest just to try it out.
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Most of the symbols included are more geared towards fantasy RPGs, though there is a sci-fi set of symbols. FM itself isn't tied to any particular genre. One thing that's really useful for sci-fi games is using Fractal World Explorer (included wit…