The short answer is that add, subtract, multiply, and divide all work only with integers (called "int32" by typeOf), while +, -, *, and / work with floating point numbers ("real"). The int32 type can hold integers from -2147483648 (0x80000000) to 2147483647 (0x7FFFFFFF). They give exact results as l...

There is an engine feature to help with models where the center of mass is in the wrong place: rotationOffset. For example, the Corsair has <Image imageID="&rsCorsairHD;" imageWidth="52" imageHeight="52" rotationCount="120" rotationColumns="12" viewportRatio="0.00375" rotationOffset="-10" /> This sh...

Clever. There are no discontinuities in the future, so that will be accurate. I don't think fmtNumber currently handles time, but I was saying it could be added since a lot of the necessary code already exists for unvGetElapsedGameTime.

When the player gates, a random amount of time is added to the elapsed game time, and it keeps track of what ticks these "discontinuities" happened at.

If you need a function to convert ticks to human-readable game time, that could be added to fmtNumber pretty easily.

I'd do it like this: (block (resultList resultStruct) (enum '(p l r s a) theCategory (block (foundItem level) (setq level 10) (loop (and (not foundItem) (gr level 0)) (setq foundItem (random (itmGetTypes (cat theCategory " =" level ";")))) (setq level (- level 1)) ) ; Pick one: (lnkAppend resultList...

Oh, huh, that is a built-in order. It may or may not do what you want in terms of how long it takes, which items it loots if cargo space is too full for all of them, etc.

Again, I don't think you actually want to use an OnOrdersCompleted event for this. For one thing, it would replace the existing event on autons and wingmen if you add the code to them. So you'd have to include the functionality of those events, and keep it up to date when they change. Yours already ...

Actually, it does seem like it would be useful to use an event handler here. Just create a generic Type with the necessary Communications, Events, and Language elements, then you can add that code with eventHandler= in the ShipClass or (objSetEventHandler obj unid). If you use the latter, you might ...

Event handlers basically just allow you to add the XML of another type onto the XML of an existing object, usually to add Events and Language elements. You don't need them if you just want to change how one type behaves at all times. To change Salvagers' behavior without modifying the engine, you'd ...

Maybe just always generate the list of known systems with (filter (sysGetNodes) node (sysIsKnown node)) ? With a bunch of non-contiguous systems known, allowing manual reordering and deciding how to maintain the order as you discover systems seems like more trouble than it's worth. I guess you could...

Seems like there might be yet another bug. I think "level=9" is supposed to override the system level, so the loot shouldn't depend on system level. "x=" multiplies the total value of the items to be generated, and there's some formula to determine how much to multiply the number appearing of each i...

It's hard-coded in the engine, I believe, but I haven't looked at it.

Currently the in-game display is in 10ths (rounded), so 2 = 25%, 3 = 32% ... 10 = 100%. I'd like it to be more clear, too, but George didn't seem to like my suggestions.

Nice! I'm looking forward to this never coming out so I can not play it!

Thanks again. More great info explained really well. Using this code will remove a heap of list handling code from the mod. I couldn't make the 'adding a value' code work unless the 'theStruct' already existed. I misunderstood what you meant by "theStruct can be Nil to start". Once I set 'theStruct...