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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

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.

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?

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 Openstep

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

Capt. Murphy wrote:

and in my opinion less prone to typos.

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

Thanks