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I got a bit lazy with having to adjust my VTOL’s direction the entire time while doing long TP runs like Nea’s.

So ‘n picked up a book on C++ and created an application to calculate the direction in degrees between the two teleporters so that I can aim my VTOL spot on and not have to sit there for 25 min and adjust, TY MA for adding the compass with degrees into the VTOL hud..

I was so exited to create my first application and not just script but soon ran into a wall when I got to the part where I wanted to create a GUI for the application. The next day ‘n picked up a book on C# and started to recode the application. This time working on the GUI and coding at the same time. Man how much simpler GUI is with C#

At first the application was aimed around making a simple calculator that determines the distance between 2 points and the direction in Degrees but soon evolved into calculating ETA and estimated fuel usage. This is about as accurate as it will get without working in acceleration and elevation (note elevation will include how high you have to go up from start point to clear all mountains before going down again and even that changes your fly speed). I have included the stats of all vehicles including land based vehicles just for interest sake. I haven’t seen the Helicopters HUD so I don’t know if it has a compass that displays in Degrees.

I also included lists with all the teleporter names and locations for every continent and planet (foma and CP not included as its not needed there). It may be a bit out of date and have a few teleporters missing as I haven’t checked for new teleporters sins its creation a few weeks back

Below is the application that came out of this.




Note this app is basically still in its Beta phase though it says version 2. You will require Dot Net 4.0 in order to run the application at this moment as at the time of creation I did not know I have to select what Dot net framework to compile for and my copy of Visual C Sharp has expired. At the moment I’m flooded with work and will be for the next 2 weeks before I can resume work on this application and add new features and fix bugs and spelling errors.
There is some know bugs in the application for example I haven’t implemented the Help screen yet even though a menu for it exists and sometimes when just randomly messing around with the application it crashes. It also does not have error handling in for when the location entry has been put in incorrectly (not entered as xxxx yyyy) and may crash.

The file current version can be downloaded from HERE 44KB MD5 : C19E014B25CFE07A5AC36D67DC94E119
Any constructive feedback, questions or recommendations for this application is welcome.

Looks useful, I wondered how long it would be before this sort of app appeared, will try it later

Note to change between continents or planets select the continent from the list and then click on the change continent button. This was a quick hack to seperate the planets and update the tp lists and will be changed sometime when I learned a bit more about C# and list boxes. Also you can enter the start and end lon lat in the boxes manualy if you want to navigate between two points not saved in the applications files. An error will be displayed if you do not enter vehicle stats but it just tells you what cant be worked out due to missing information while everything els will be worked out.

Would be cool to stick this up on google code or github as an open source project.

Mikeemooo said:

Would be cool to stick this up on google code or github as an open source project.

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Ill put it up as open source when Im finished working on it, there is a few extra functions I want to add in to it and untill then would prefer that no one steals the code and use it to beat me to the extra functions in their own app (code also needs to be cleaned up a lot, atm I used so meny diffrent naming conventions for varuables its a pain in the ass to figure out what is what). I can assure you that there is no viruses or trojans and no hidden functions in the applicaton. Till im finished ill leave it up to who ever wants to create a simular program to figure out the math on their own.

Wow cool this thing actualy works between PA Marina and Medusa where I tested it. Did you use my formula Here to work out the fuel values ?

Karma_Jackal said:

Wow cool this thing actualy works between PA Marina and Medusa where I tested it. Did you use my formula Here to work out the fuel values ?

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Nope but it is basicaly the same procedure.

looks like a great app for noobs and old players a like. Will try this out later

Mants

Looks very nice !

Now if you could just make this into an auto pilot...oh wait that should probably get us banned

Very interesting. I will be sure to give it a try soon.

Thanks all hope you enjoy the app, Got some nice plans for the future of the app but will not delve into it now. If you find any bugs please let me know.

I understand how you get the Distance / Time / Speed and oil usage and how to get the angle of a triangle but not how you get the degrees to point in the correct direction. Can you please send me the formula to work this out or even better the coding for that part?

Karma_Jackal said:

I understand how you get the Distance / Time / Speed and oil usage and how to get the angle of a triangle but not how you get the degrees to point in the correct direction. Can you please send me the formula to work this out or even better the coding for that part?

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Hehe ill give you a hint

Its got to do with Positives and Negatives. Like I said Ill give the coding later

Interesting, The hovercraft also have a Compass that works in degrees.
To bad it has a restricted view in 1st person but luckily the copilot can assist with navigating.

Hmm big lack of interest towards this application .

Scrapping active work on it for now while I work on some other applications like a new audit system for the ~400 servers. Why create my own audit application for work when we can just buy a package?
Because I can

Further work has resumed

Next version expected end of next month.

Fopsie said:

Further work has resumed

Next version expected end of next month.

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Additions for space might be useful. +rep 4 the effort

Just to clear something up, some players on Arkadia forum had some concerns regarding how the application works in regards to coordinates and if it breaks the EULA.

This application does not interact with EU in anyway and runs completely offline. The coordinates are saved in editable ini files and can only take the coordinates out of the file or via manual input so no worry about it breaking anything in the EULA.

O im also going to create a Help file soon and recompile down to a lower version of DotNet after the new changes.

Jennson said:

Additions for space might be useful. +rep 4 the effort

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That will come with the TP update when I get some time to do it. Till then you are capable of updating the ini files yourself if you cant wait for me to do it.

I have looked for some coordinates for the space stations but till now no luck so ill probably end up flying to everyone to get that information.

It would be cool if you made it available for space routes. I can help you with the coords maybe.

Majandi said:

It would be cool if you made it available for space routes. I can help you with the coords maybe.

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I have been meening to get around to doing it but im a bit demotevated sins I lost my source code and have to redo this application from the start. You can edit the INI files to include the coords just remember to stick to the bottom of the ini files when changing.

Hopefully ill have some time free from work and studdies to actualy sit down and remake the application soon.