Discussion 2.1 Patch Notes: "Add system X, Y, Z co-ordinates to network log"
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This should prove a very useful addition, I infer from this that the positional data for Star Systems can now be scrapped from your AppConfig.xml file so we shouldn't need to enter new star system coordinates manually into EDDB
Not quite. You'll still need to upload part or all of your network log file for the likes of EDDB to parse the system co-ordinates out, with the admins coming up with code to parse and store the relevant data (and it means that you'll have to visit the system - not always necessary with trilateration).
Fair point. If the maths is right then results should be the same.
I should be able to code EDDI to send the data straight to EDSM.
And it turns out that we're lucky in that FD picked Sol as their origin as well so it looks workable. The only potential issue is that the co-ordinates are logged to 3 decimal places, which might lead to inaccuracies. We'd need AnthorNet to weigh in on this though.
Interestingly it sometimes writes out a short-form version, possibly if you enter supercruise or if you jump systems (haven't worked out when). So if anyone is coding you need to take account of both forms.
The short form looks something like:
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{15:04:12} System:"Sol" StarPos:(0.000,0.000,0.000)ly Supercruise
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It's done that for a while. Not really anything useful that tools can do with the info 'though, which is why EDMC and other tools don't expose it.
Please paste examples of these for those of us not on beta. The "docked" log entry will be really useful for tools like EDMC, TCE etc.
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Here are examples:
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{12:02:45} Commander Put Docked
{12:05:38} Commander Put Undocked
{12:09:05} GetSafeUniversalAddress Station Count 1 moved 0 Undocked Not Landed
{12:35:20} GetSafeUniversalAddress Station Count 1 moved 0 Undocked LandedTCE Mk.II V1.2.4.2 now supports "Docked" and "Landed" status.
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Curious, I haven't seen these entries. Do you have verbose logging turned on?
I've been playing around with the data in the new logs and I'm not yet sure that it's useful. The 'Commander (Get|Put) (docked|undocked)' message might show up at times when it shouldn't, and not show up at times when it should. I'll see if I can work out what's going on.
The log does show pad number but does so for all ships in the instance, PC or NPC, so it's hard to pick out the right entry to use. There is a ship ID but it appears to change on a per-instance basis (possibly a pointer) so can't be used as a reference point either.
Yes, there is a delay more or less.
But why FDev adding new messages into the log for the state. It could be so easy to change only the current "System" line into something like:
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System:"Sol" StarPos:(0.000,0.000,0.000)ly Supercruise
System:"Sol" StarPos:(0.000,0.000,0.000)ly NormalFlight
System:"Sol" StarPos:(0.000,0.000,0.000)ly Docked
System:"Sol" StarPos:(0.000,0.000,0.000)ly Landed