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The only import that Astro supports as a feature in the program is the csv import. If you want to import data in another format - a different csv schema, xml, json, etc - there's two options: - write a script to open those files, parse them, and…
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There's a couple of larger datasets that go much farther out than 20ly, if you just want to use the real-universe data. To delete everything within 20 ly, place a body at 0,0,0, select it, and then search for 'within 20'. Press the select all bu…
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Yes, set them as custom fields. You can even search on them.
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You still should be able to select all of them. Search for "First 20000, root only". That will increase the results that can be returned.
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EDG wrote: Is there really no way to select all the stars at once to make changes? Not to select all of them. You can use the Search window to select multiple bodies. To get all the root bodies (or at least, the first 1000), search for "root …
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Ah, now that brings back memories! :-)
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Sounds like something in the browser changed. Possibly an update to the browser. You havent mentioned what browsers everyone is using, but I'd recommend trying different ones (ie, use Firefox if on IE, or Chrome if on FF... that sort of thing). I…
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The only times I've seen a binding errors like this are: - when another program is already listening on the port SM wants to listen on (for example, a p2p or media server program). If thats the case, try setting SM to a different port. - when…
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In a spare faring society, which is what Astro assumes (it assumes something in between space opera and hard sci-fi), the lack of an atmosphere or even gravity is not necessarily the biggest obstacle to people living someplace. Its up to you to dec…
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Its random, weighted based on favorable conditions. Its completely possible to have a high population on a body with no atmosphere, for example. In that case it may be explained as a domed or underground city located there because there's a precio…
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There's a description of what they mean in the glossary in the help file.
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It probably has something to do with that particular machine, and not because of Vista. Astro3 was primarily developed under Vista, and the plugins (which use the same system Fractal Mapper uses for plugins) run fine under it.
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Plugins run in XP/Vista/Win7. Its just that some of the plugins made for v2 may not run correctly in v3.
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You're close. You dont want to add the species to the GM Notes. You want to add it as a custom field to the body. o.SetField "species", "Ferengi" In the sector settings, set the 'data source' for that new system data field you made to 'custom…
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You're not going to be able to make a map of galactic size - ours has 200 billion stars. If you just want something disk shaped, you can use the squash script
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There's a couple scripts in the download area that show you how to iterate through all the bodies on a sector.
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Is there a box where you can enter in text and a 'say' button? Or just the border?
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Actually, scratch that - you can make sector-wide unique names, so long as you use the coordinates as part of the name.
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You can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, just like you can do in the 3d sector view.
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Try running SM as administrator. Its possible its having trouble writing files if being run as a normal user, and thus its not generating the html file for chat. You can also try installing SM into a directory outside of the program files director…
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Hey, the more ruins the better, I say!
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You cant use inspiration pad pro to generate names that are guaranteed to be unique across the sector. You'd have to compare the name to the names of all the other stars, and thats not possible within a generator. You'd need to use a script for un…
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I havent been getting AVs. Are you still getting them? Can you double check that the path to FT in the program preferences is the correct? (in case its running a different installed version)
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EDG wrote: 1) Each object has an ID (the UABI) that looks something like this: Body ID="{4B29D485-0E13-4398-B91C-E00CF4D3B2DC}" Do I need to include this if I want to write my own XML file to import? Yes - each body needs an id, and the id n…
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Unfortunately the Keep is not designed to handle unicode text. I thought it could handle pasted unicode, but apparently not (that may have been Fractal Mapper I was thinking of).
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EDG wrote: 1) is there a way to disable the text label display for all stars (not just individual ones), so they're not visible from any distance (unless they're clicked on)? You can filter out (hide) all systems, and set the Filter display to …
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You probably had version 1 of IPP. The \Common directory is for shared files used by the generators. They are not supposed to show up in the list of generators because they are not complete (and will generate a lot of '(missings)' if you run the…
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I thought they did ship with ipp2, but I guess not. They are useful generators. Anyways, here they are. There's three files here, its noted below where to put them. (relative to the ipp2 install directory)
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EDG wrote: The problem is that I have had little experience with SQLite. Is that just a text file, or is it binary? Its an embedded SQL database. So rather than directly writing to the file, you'd manipulate data in it using SQL statements. T…
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I just tried the XML importer/exporter, and it looks like it works ok with v3. There may be some fields from v3 it misses, but it should do the trick to import existing data. You can make an example xml file by creating a random sector (10x10x10…