MattG's Observatory plugins

MattG

MattG
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Sorry, I'm a little confused. I dowloaded a few plugins from here: https://edjp.colacube.net/observatory

They're eop files as explained in the OP. I've copied them to the Observatory plugins subfolder, but they they don't "work" as it were - Observatory doesn't install them. Do I need to rename them as zips then extract them?
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That should be all you need to do. Make sure you tried closing ObsCore and rerunning it - I believe it only processes eops when it starts up.

Failing that - are you definitely running Observatory Core and not the older Observatory? If so, did you use the stand-alone version or the installer version? If you used the installer version, you can try closing ObsCore and simply double clicking an eop - it will install it and then open ObsCore. Also, if you haven't already, make sure you're running the latest version of ObsCore too.

They are simply renamed zips, so you can try manually extracting them - but it absolutely shouldn't be necessary.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
MattG said:
That should be all you need to do. Make sure you tried closing ObsCore and rerunning it - I believe it only processes eops when it starts up.

Failing that - are you definitely running Observatory Core and not the older Observatory? If so, did you use the stand-alone version or the installer version? If you used the installer version, you can try closing ObsCore and simply double clicking an eop - it will install it and then open ObsCore. Also, if you haven't already, make sure you're running the latest version of ObsCore too.

They are simply renamed zips, so you can try manually extracting them - but it absolutely shouldn't be necessary.
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Ah, I think I see - it looks like I was running an old version. I've uninstalled, redownloaded then copied the eop files into the plugin folder. All is now well!

Many thanks!
 

MattG

MattG
Codger said:
Quick question:
I got a popup notification that said "May host a marked biological." What does that mean? :)
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So there are 2 settings in BI for "marks". One, which is on by default, is a notification for a bio you've never seen anywhere in the galaxy, and the other (off by default) is the same but for the specific region you're in.

So chances are this was a bio you never encountered anywhere before. You can disable it in BI Settings if it's not useful :)

Edit: Assuming you use the default symbol set, the bio will also be marked with a blue diamond in BI window.
 

Codger

Codger
MattG said:
So there are 2 settings in BI for "marks". One, which is on by default, is a notification for a bio you've never seen anywhere in the galaxy, and the other (off by default) is the same but for the specific region you're in.

So chances are this was a bio you never encountered anywhere before. You can disable it in BI Settings if it's not useful :)

Edit: Assuming you use the default symbol set, the bio will also be marked with a blue diamond in BI window.
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Ahh, I didn't realize it was doing that now. Pretty cool idea. It turned out to be a Bacterium Tela, which I had in fact never encountered before.

Thanks for explaining :)
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Apologies if this has been mentioned before - I'm in a bit of rush at the moment but I just wanted to highlight something.

I'm seeing message popups overlaying the screen and grabbing focus. You can't clear them - I think this is something to do with the Evaluator plugin but I could well be wrong. The popup only diappears once all three samples of a bio have been completed. It's really not much of an issue at all but wanted to share it:

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MattG

MattG
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Apologies if this has been mentioned before - I'm in a bit of rush at the moment but I just wanted to highlight something.

I'm seeing message popups overlaying the screen and grabbing focus. You can't clear them - I think this is something to do with the Evaluator plugin but I could well be wrong. The popup only diappears once all three samples of a bio have been completed. It's really not much of an issue at all but wanted to share it:

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So that popup is from Botanist (one of the bundled ones, not one of mine). I think you can disable it in Botanist settings, but you could just disable/remove the plugin as BioInsights should tell you similar details.

Can you double check your game is running in "borderless" mode rather than "full screen", and if using multiple monitors can you check the popup settings in Core to ensure it has the right monitor please? It obviously shouldn't be that size, nor stealing focus so we might need to get Vith to investigate after checking those things.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
MattG said:
So that popup is from Botanist (one of the bundled ones, not one of mine). I think you can disable it in Botanist settings, but you could just disable/remove the plugin as BioInsights should tell you similar details.

Can you double check your game is running in "borderless" mode rather than "full screen", and if using multiple monitors can you check the popup settings in Core to ensure it has the right monitor please? It obviously shouldn't be that size, nor stealing focus so we might need to get Vith to investigate after checking those things.
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OK, took a while - that elusive third sample :D

I disabled "enable sample status overlay" in the Botnaist seciotn of Core and it seems to work now - the message disappears after a couple of seconds. I'm definitely in borderless mode - here's a screenshot showing a "clear" of the popups which all output to my second screen with the game on the main monitor.

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varonica

varonica
Eahlstan said:
According to the legend this should be a new galactic record. Guess the DB isn't up to date, because that one has been found in many regions for a long time.

docs.google.com

Elite Dangerous in Game Codex

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No, it's just a new record for this "region", it's currently not listed for this region at all, so this will indeed be a new galactic record for this region, just not galaxy wide, but I'm good with that, but no wonder no-one has yet reported it yet, it's an elusive little beggar, been up and down to OC around 4 times now dropping into different blue patches and searching them and nothing so far! Still, never give up, never surrender!
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
How easy is it to write plugins for Observatory?

What I was wondering was, could you use the edastro API (specifically the "nearest" operation) to get Observatory to report back (verbally?) whenever you arrive in a system that's (say) less than 100ly (configurable?) from a GEC catalogue entry?
 

MattG

MattG
Alec Turner said:
How easy is it to write plugins for Observatory?
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That's an open question :).

Alec Turner said:
What I was wondering was, could you use the edastro API (specifically the "nearest" operation) to get Observatory to report back (verbally?) whenever you arrive in a system that's (say) less than 100ly (configurable?) from a GEC catalogue entry?
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So, I've actually implemented GEC search in EDJP and had plans to write a Core plugin too - but I was waiting on the UI rewrite Vithigar is currently doing in the hope it might provide a bit more functionality.

You could implement it as you've described, but there are still many questions:
Should it notify you each jump? Won't that get repetitive? If so, how do you limit it?
What happens when I go 101 LY away then next jump I'm 99LY away? etc


I don't mind writing this plugin - it's already on my list. But I need to have it useful while not annoying, using current UI functionality.

I'll give it some thought. Alternatively, if you want to try writing it yourself, Core source is here. If you look at the Botanist code specifically, that's a minimal implementation of a plugin.

Edit: if you do try writing it yourself, more than happy to help if you have questions - either DM, or over on Observatory discord
 
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