This thread is about using EDD for exploration. See the player tools thread for support.
ED Discovery is a Windows/Linux application which assists you in piloting in the Elite Dangerous universe. Started by Commander Finwen, it has been greatly expanded in the last few years by a team of programmers who have added many features.
Major Features:
See our wiki with a full help guide. Talk to us and other users directly using Discord.
Features:
EDD supports add on packs that can be installed individually and which expand ED Discovery. The add on packs themselves are customisable as they are written in a simple programming language.
The main pack is the voice pack, which reads out the journal entries as they happen in your chosen windows text to speech voice. Voice recognition pack is available, as above. Customisable keyboard shortcuts packs are also available if you wish to use tools such as voice attack to control ED. Other packs are available, check your in program add-on menu.
EDD also supported 3rd party DLL integration for the adventurous programmers out there. Intergration with c# DLLs, ++ DLLs. You can create a custom panel for integration into the program directly.
ED Discovery look is fully customisable, you choose the layout, you choose the colours. We include some default themes to get you going, the one shown here is Elite Veranda.
The User Interface featuring multiple information tabs, multiple panels per tab:
Over 50 panels of information about your Elite journal is available:
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Customisable Pop outs, both transparent (so you can place them over ED and have them in game) and non transparent, covering information that you need for exploration:
Discoveries:
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Trading:
And for engineering/exploring:
Includes a web server, which allows your tablet to act as a Roccat style grid to control elite:
ED Discovery features a 3d star map of commanders visited systems, courtesy of Spansh or EDSM data. You can pan and zoom, click, see information on your trip and on each star:
ED Discovery integrates with EDSM, EDDN, Spansh, Inara, EDAstro. It can send your journey to EDSM and retrieve information from EDSM from your account. It can send your information (scans etc) to EDDN for upload to the tools which use this. It will update Inara on your current state of play.
Over 50+ panels of data is available, giving you data on your ships, their loadouts, your commodities and materials. It has panels to allow you to plan an expedition, plan a exploration star set, plan a route through the galaxy.
It has panels which can be transparent and can be overlayed on top of your Elite Dangerous Borderless window to provide HUD like features.
A screenshot converter allows you to convert those pesky BMPs from ED or steam into a PNG and give them a decent name. Route planners allow you to plan your trip. Your history can be filtered for view, individually on each tab/pop out, showing only the events you want to see or using a advanced filter to remove events on a much more individual basis (npc chatter for instance).
ED Discovery can be downloaded from here. We support both stable builds, and beta builds, each individually installable. We also support portable builds where you can place the data where you want it.
This is an free open source project, you can inspect the code at github. No code is hidden. All is available for you to build or inspect.. We welcome contributions to the code base and user reports of any issues, either at our discord or via Github issues.
This software uses the Apache V2 license and is (C) EDDiscovery team 2015-2023. It is provided without warrantee and with no liability, as per the license.
ED Discovery is a Windows/Linux application which assists you in piloting in the Elite Dangerous universe. Started by Commander Finwen, it has been greatly expanded in the last few years by a team of programmers who have added many features.
Major Features:
- History of your journey through Elite
- Speech output - make your computer speak as you scan, fight, dock, land. Add NPC voices.
- Free Voice Control - control Elite using your microphone! Install the FVC action pack, make sure you have key bindings set in elite for items you wish to voice control, and talk away! Over 140+ voice commands built in! No configuring your own keybinds.
- Discoveries Observatory - identify interesting bodies in systems for your investigation. Find close binaries, crazy rings, planets within rings etc, as you fly or from history
- Odyssey on foot support - organic scans, micro resources, suits, weapons
- Inara, Spansh, EDSM, EDDB integration
- 2D and 3D Maps from Spansh or EDSM Data
- Spansh station panel giving you details of stations in your system, or to search across systems for commodities, outfitting, economies etc.
- Search Spansh and EDSM star data
- Combat, Trading panels
- Overlay panels which can be layed over the Elite screen to provide extra in game visual data
- More than 50+ panels of information on combat, trading, exploration, star data, ship loadout
- Expedition and Route Planning
- Corolis and ED Shipyard export of your ship
- Webserver - this gives you a ROCCAT style grid on your tablet to control your ship by.
See our wiki with a full help guide. Talk to us and other users directly using Discord.
Features:
EDD supports add on packs that can be installed individually and which expand ED Discovery. The add on packs themselves are customisable as they are written in a simple programming language.
The main pack is the voice pack, which reads out the journal entries as they happen in your chosen windows text to speech voice. Voice recognition pack is available, as above. Customisable keyboard shortcuts packs are also available if you wish to use tools such as voice attack to control ED. Other packs are available, check your in program add-on menu.
EDD also supported 3rd party DLL integration for the adventurous programmers out there. Intergration with c# DLLs, ++ DLLs. You can create a custom panel for integration into the program directly.
ED Discovery look is fully customisable, you choose the layout, you choose the colours. We include some default themes to get you going, the one shown here is Elite Veranda.
The User Interface featuring multiple information tabs, multiple panels per tab:
Over 50 panels of information about your Elite journal is available:
View attachment 315760
Customisable Pop outs, both transparent (so you can place them over ED and have them in game) and non transparent, covering information that you need for exploration:
Discoveries:
View attachment 318328
Trading:
And for engineering/exploring:
Includes a web server, which allows your tablet to act as a Roccat style grid to control elite:
ED Discovery features a 3d star map of commanders visited systems, courtesy of Spansh or EDSM data. You can pan and zoom, click, see information on your trip and on each star:
ED Discovery integrates with EDSM, EDDN, Spansh, Inara, EDAstro. It can send your journey to EDSM and retrieve information from EDSM from your account. It can send your information (scans etc) to EDDN for upload to the tools which use this. It will update Inara on your current state of play.
Over 50+ panels of data is available, giving you data on your ships, their loadouts, your commodities and materials. It has panels to allow you to plan an expedition, plan a exploration star set, plan a route through the galaxy.
It has panels which can be transparent and can be overlayed on top of your Elite Dangerous Borderless window to provide HUD like features.
A screenshot converter allows you to convert those pesky BMPs from ED or steam into a PNG and give them a decent name. Route planners allow you to plan your trip. Your history can be filtered for view, individually on each tab/pop out, showing only the events you want to see or using a advanced filter to remove events on a much more individual basis (npc chatter for instance).
ED Discovery can be downloaded from here. We support both stable builds, and beta builds, each individually installable. We also support portable builds where you can place the data where you want it.
This is an free open source project, you can inspect the code at github. No code is hidden. All is available for you to build or inspect.. We welcome contributions to the code base and user reports of any issues, either at our discord or via Github issues.
This software uses the Apache V2 license and is (C) EDDiscovery team 2015-2023. It is provided without warrantee and with no liability, as per the license.
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