Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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Just two items of equipment I wish I could get or code myself, but I'm still just starting to figure this out, so if I have to do it myself it may take a while to see.

I'd like to be able to zoom in on things on the screen, because I play on my netbook and it's kind of a small display.

I'd like to be able to drop a beacon when I find asteroids without a beacon, so I can easily come back, if I have to leave a lot of asteroids unscooped. I've already installed the rock hermit locator, so a lot of asteroids do have beacons.
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Re: Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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Illuminaughty wrote:
Just two items of equipment I wish I could get or code myself, but I'm still just starting to figure this out, so if I have to do it myself it may take a while to see.

I'd like to be able to zoom in on things on the screen, because I play on my netbook and it's kind of a small display.

I'd like to be able to drop a beacon when I find asteroids without a beacon, so I can easily come back, if I have to leave a lot of asteroids unscooped. I've already installed the rock hermit locator, so a lot of asteroids do have beacons.
Welcome to the Forums! Zoom has been requested before - it would require a code change and therefore is a non-starter (at the moment, possibly ever).

The beacons you suggest already exist but I can't point you to them because the wiki is down... ( :oops: )
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Re: Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
The beacons you suggest already exist but I can't point you to them because the wiki is down... ( :oops: )
Do they? I know beacons to attract police do (distress signals or somesuch), but I don't recall launchable "place-marker" beacons existing. But they'd be very simple to code up - if they don't exist they can certainly be made to do so.
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Re: Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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Thargoid wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
The beacons you suggest already exist but I can't point you to them because the wiki is down... ( :oops: )
Do they? I know beacons to attract police do (distress signals or somesuch), but I don't recall launchable "place-marker" beacons existing. But they'd be very simple to code up - if they don't exist they can certainly be made to do so.
I thought that was what the ETT Homing beacon was supposed to do?

As discussed in this thread: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... b001a133a9
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Re: Optical zoom, and drop beacons

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
The beacons you suggest already exist but I can't point you to them because the wiki is down... ( :oops: )
You are thinking at: ettBeaconLauncher.oxp
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So they are. Obviously my memory isn't what it used to be, although I forget what that was ;)
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So they are. Obviously my memory isn't what it used to be, although I forget what that was ;)
:) Sometimes I get mixed up by a good idea that comes to naught and things which turn out to actually exist - glad I was right on this occasion though!
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The ETT Homing Beacon is actually a quite old OXP (it existed already when I joined the boards, and I made my very first post about it). It used to be on node 74 of Oosat 2, but it isn't there anymore. Seems that the server crash which brought down the Elite Wiki also affected some parts (though not all) of the archived Oosat 2 under oldsat.alioth.net.

You can still find its Oosat 2 entry on the wayback machine under http://web.archive.org/web/200701201644 ... lioth.net/ but it seems the ZIP isn't archived along with it.

ouklos fixed a few problems with the OXP quite recently. Maybe he can be asked to re-upload it. Here's the thread: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=7446
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If you use the cached page from google (the first cached link if you look for 'site:wiki.alioth.net oxp' in google) you'll get the proper - still working - link ( http://oosat.alioth.net/files/ettBeaconLauncher.zip )

IIRC the wayback machine changes all links inside a page to point to its own servers...
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