Is there a tool that will measure the distance between two systems?

Nutter

Nutter
Clearly not in-game, but does anyone know of a fan made tool that will let you measure the distance between two systems?

The reason being I like to try to reach the hard to reach places, this involves a trip of anything from 2,000ly to 65,000ly however when I get there I find (even with my max jump Conda) that I can't get there.

My absolute max range with 100% boost is 118ly thats with SRV's on board however my last trip I found to be 40ly short with no neutrons around.

Cheers

Nutter
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goemon

goemon
i use this one: edtools.ddns.net/dist.php ... as above, only discovered systems.

for everything else i use basic trigonometry ... with the caveeat, that the coordinates aren't precise.
 

Shanaeri

Shanaeri
goemon said:
i use this one: edtools.ddns.net/dist.php ... as above, only discovered systems.

for everything else i use basic trigonometry ... with the caveeat, that the coordinates aren't precise.
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This. Last year when helping navigate Ed Lewis out of the Abyss from 65K LY away I used basic trig to help him plot a course out when he could only jump 2 stars ahead. By placing a set square on the screen and measuring it was possible to determine an approximate jump distance.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Thank you for the suggestions, it does need to be accurate and of course the systems i'm after are not discovered, I really don't want to spend a week traveling only to discover i'm 0.2ly off! - Yes that's happened :(
 

askavir

askavir
A helpful thing that might have gone unnoticed to some players, is that when you hover a system on the galmap, the surrounding systems that your ship would be capable of jumping to get highlighted in orange.
 

Dave Hedgehog

Dave Hedgehog
I'd love to see FDev publish a 3rd party dev kit DB like CCP do for EVE - system names and coords (can skip deliberately locked areas of course if needed to protect upcoming stories). No need for full data of course to keep the mystery of exploration.
 

furrycat

furrycat
EDTS should be able to do what you want. It can't but it could be made to.

It can calculate the distance between any two known (ie listed in EDSM) systems. And the underlying code can determine the co-ordinates of procedurally generated systems even if they aren't listed. What it won't do is calculate the distance to a PG system, because there is a margin of error and the tool was originally designed for route plotting.

I had a quick chat with Alot and we reckon that the functionality to print an estimated distance could be added easily enough.
 

Esvandiary

Esvandiary
OK, as furrycat said I've stopped being lazy and made a couple of the general EDTS tools support procedurally generated systems now. :D

Note that these changes are only on the develop branch right now, so you'll need that if you want to use this functionality. You'll also still need to do the normal first-time setup (with python update.py) to get the EDSM/EDDB data before using it.

Example usage (note the difference in output between systems with known coordinates and those with estimated ones):


Code: 
$ python distance.py --start=Alioth Sol Achenar "Synookio CL-Y d24" "Lysoorb GG-Y a119-4"

 Alioth ===    82.53LY             ===> Sol
 Alioth ===   221.68LY             ===> Achenar
 Alioth ===  7959.28LY +/-  8.66LY ===> Lysoorb GG-Y a119-4
 Alioth === 11875.68LY +/- 69.28LY ===> Synookio CL-Y d24


Code: 
$ python coords.py "Stuemeae GG-Y c119" "Sagittarius A*" "Synuefe EL-Y d4" "Wredguia GL-X b4-32"

   Stuemeae GG-Y c119: [   22.94,   -20.69, 25869.34]
       Sagittarius A*: [   25.22,   -20.91, 25899.97]
      Synuefe EL-Y d4: [  135.00, -1185.00,  -945.00] +/- 40LY in each axis
  Wredguia GL-X b4-32: [-1335.00,   645.00,  -955.00] +/- 10LY in each axis


Also note above that even though Stuemeae GG-Y c119 is a procedurally-generated system, EDSM has exact coordinates for it so those are returned. The tools will only fall back to approximate coords if EDSM data is not available for that system.

I haven't added support for PG systems to any other EDTS tools right now, simply because I haven't decided a good way of making it clear that the coords are approximate - and for the other tools such as fuel usage or routing, those uncertainties can make a big difference! :)

Feel free to come and chat on the EDCD Discord server, or the forum thread furrycat linked, if you have any questions or problems!
 
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Daitya Zo

Daitya Zo
--> Is there a tool who will measure the distance between two systems?

Well, OK. I'll do it.

But, no stealing my stuff this time, while I'm gone.
 

Iron Body

Iron Body
If you are very careful in estimating the xyz coordinates from the galaxy map, at the highest zoom level which shows the values, then you should be able to calculate the distance to within 2 to 3 ly. I do this when exploring the outer fringes and leave a small safety margin to get back.

I sometimes estimate the coordinates and calculate all the distances between a dozen or so stars in the direction I want to go and then plot a route through them.
Sometimes this shows there is no safe route as well. Of corse this is only required when jumping beyond the range of the route plotter.
 
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Wylie28

W
The game shows you how far away you are from every system. Find the system you want, pick another nearby star and subtract. The difference is the distance between those stars. I have to be missing something here what is it? Do you need the decimals?
 
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