Include equipment from another OXP as standard

[Crush]

After a break of about two years I've started playing again, and I want to have another go at creating an OXP.

I want to specify a piece of equipment from another OXP as standard on a new ship. Specifically a "Small Railgun"/"EQ_RAILGUN_1" from the Railgun OXP.

I'm using the XML style of plisting, and can't see how I specify this piece of equipment as standard in the shipdata.plist.

BTW, are there any plans to deprecate the plist style of scripting?

Cheers,

Crush

[Smivs]

You will firstly need to check the licence on the railgun OXP to make sure you can use it, then either specify it as a dependency or incorporate it into your OXP.
If it will be standard fitment for your ship, you will need to list it in the shipyard.plist
plists will be a part of Oolite for the forseeable future, although generally OpenStep is prefered over XML these days.

[Crush]

Hmmm...ok, assuming that the license is OK, what would the XML entry in the shipdata file look like look like?

And is OpenStep the same as JavaScript?

[Capt. Murphy]

shipyard.plist not shipdata.plist for defining optional/standard equipment on a player flyable ship. Openstep isn't Javascript it's an alternative plist format which is more human readable and in my opinion less prone to typos.

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Shipyard.plist

XML

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<key>optional_equipment</key>
      <array>
         <string>EQ_FUEL_SCOOPS</string>
         <string>EQ_CARGO_BAY</string>
         <string>EQ_ECM</string>
      </array>

Openstep

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"optional_equipment" =
		(
			"EQ_ECM",
			"EQ_FUEL_SCOOPS",
			"EQ_ESCAPE_POD",
		);

[Switeck]

Far as I know, the last item in the list must not have a comma after the quote. Like so:

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"optional_equipment" =
      (
         "EQ_ECM",
         "EQ_FUEL_SCOOPS",
         "EQ_ESCAPE_POD"
      );

[Capt. Murphy]

and in my opinion less prone to typos.

Perhaps I should have said easier to spot the typos that Capt Murphy inevitably makes...

[Crush]

Thanks