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Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:04 am

...Middlemap...
...regex...

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This was added to https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolit ... SystemInfo during development of Oolite 1.81:

Revision as of 20:36, 4 July 2015

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=== <code>setProperty</code> ===

{{oolite-method-added|1.81}}

function '''setProperty'''(key : String, value: String, layer: Number [, manifest: String])

This lets you set properties with more control than provided by writing directly to <code>systemInfo.property</code>. <code>layer</code> is the layer from 0 to 3 that the change should be applied at, as in [[planetinfo.plist]]. Layer 2 is the default layer for Javascript-initiated changes, but 3 may be used for changes absolutely crucial for OXP functionality.

Almost three and a half years later, this change was made:

Revision as of 00:24, 16 November 2018
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function '''setProperty'''(key : String, value: String, layer: Number [, manifest: String])
+
function '''setProperty'''(layer: Number, key : String, value: String [, manifest: String])

My question is, did the implementation of this method change, or was the wiki showing incorrect information for more than three years?

layer has been the first parameter in this method since its entry into the codebase in October 2014. It looks like the wiki had it wrong for a while.

Edit: Also, key is named property in the code.

Thank you, a_c.

Moving on to planetinfo.plist, and...

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Planetinfo.plist mentions properties of:-
6.9 Percent Cloud
6.10 Percent Ice
6.11 Percent Land

But, Resources/Config/planetinfo.plist contains:-
cloud_fraction
no mention of ice
land_fraction

And, I can also see a polar_cloud_color, which isn't mentioned on the wiki page?

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 6:45 pm

Thank you, a_c.

Moving on to planetinfo.plist, and...

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Planetinfo.plist mentions properties of:-
6.9 Percent Cloud
6.10 Percent Ice
6.11 Percent Land

But, Resources/Config/planetinfo.plist contains:-
cloud_fraction
no mention of ice
land_fraction

And, I can also see a polar_cloud_color, which isn't mentioned on the wiki page?

If you dig around inside SOTL Altmap, there might be other unmentioned goodies in there too.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 7:09 pm

If you dig around inside SOTL Altmap, there might be other unmentioned goodies in there too.

Ya, ones cim made up. (I have the impression it's little understood that one can store any arbitrary information one wants to in planetinfo/system.info, as an alternative to mission variables. I'll have some suggestions for possibilities later in this topic.)

I'm hoping to make a definitive list of properties actually implemented in Oolite as of 1.90/1.91, and correct/update the wiki in the process. Really, if someone could point me to where in the Oolite source planetinfo.plist gets parsed, that would be neato.

(And, I can honestly say that is the first time in my life I've ever written "neato", in any context.)