Your ship's name on your HUD (Oolite 1.81)
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:33 pm
Not chatty tonight, so this will be terse...
Download "HUDs, Data - Ship Name" I've just added to the OXZ manager. Ignore the description there.
Open your hud.plist file and add this to the dials array:-
Now your ship's name will be displayed on your in-flight HUD. (Some of us like that)
Unlike in the bad old days, you'll never need to edit hud.plist again if you change your ship's name or use more than one save-game. It'll automatically find the correct name.
If you want to use this in a HUD OXP you publish, just add this to your manifest file:-
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R.I.P. Edward Gough Whitlam, 1916-2014.
Download "HUDs, Data - Ship Name" I've just added to the OXZ manager. Ignore the description there.
Open your hud.plist file and add this to the dials array:-
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{
data_source = "playerShipName"; // Ship's name.
selector = "drawCustomText:";
alert_conditions = 2; // Green alert only
color = "greenColor";
alpha = 0.5;
x = 32; y = -40; y_origin = 1; x_origin = -1; height = 20; width = 12;
},
{
data_source = "playerShipClass"; // Ship's type.
selector = "drawCustomText:";
alert_conditions = 2; // Green alert only
color = "greenColor";
alpha = 0.5;
x = 32; y = -44; y_origin = 1; x_origin = -1; height = 8; width = 8;
},Unlike in the bad old days, you'll never need to edit hud.plist again if you change your ship's name or use more than one save-game. It'll automatically find the correct name.
If you want to use this in a HUD OXP you publish, just add this to your manifest file:-
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"requires_oxps" = (
{
"identifier" = "oolite.hud.data.Wildeblood.ShipName";
"description" = "Data - Ship Name (for playerShipName & playerShipClass data sources)";
}
);R.I.P. Edward Gough Whitlam, 1916-2014.