Determining if a stargate is inbound or outbound

[Bobby]

Is there a way to determine if a stargate is "outbound" or "inbound" through code?

[Drako Slyith]

You can use this:

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(sysGetObjectByName gSource "Outbound")

to find the outbound Stargate in the system that the ship or station that called it is in.

[Bobby]

Thanks, it works perfectly. Will the following still work if the system has more than two stargates? "station" is the space object being tested.

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(eq station (sysGetObjectByName gSource "Outbound"))

[Drako Slyith]

Yes, it should work with more than 2 stargates. If a system has more than 2 stargates named outbound, then it will crash. It says: (duplicate Stargate "Outbound")

[george moromisato]

There is also code in Huari.xml that helps you test whether or not a stargate leads (eventually) to a particular system.

For example, if you are in Sanctuary, you can loop over all stargates and ask whether one of the stargates leads to "Heretic".

[Drako Slyith]

There is also code in Huari.xml that helps you test whether or not a stargate leads (eventually) to a particular system.

For example, if you are in Sanctuary, you can loop over all stargates and ask whether one of the stargates leads to "Heretic".

Yeah, but that's a bad thing to use if you say, happen to have a network, with literally infinite ways to get to Huaramarca...

[george moromisato]

There is also code in Huari.xml that helps you test whether or not a stargate leads (eventually) to a particular system.

For example, if you are in Sanctuary, you can loop over all stargates and ask whether one of the stargates leads to "Heretic".

Yeah, but that's a bad thing to use if you say, happen to have a network, with literally infinite ways to get to Huaramarca...

I think I wrote the code so that it works in any topology (but I haven't tested it). Basically, the code just walks the gate topology until it reaches the node that you asked for (and then it stops). If there is no way to get to the target node, then the code walks to all nodes and then stops. [It should be possible to adapt the code to return the number of systems that it will take to reach the target node.]

[Drako Slyith]

I ran into trouble running it in my Network mod. But I didn't try to limit it, so I think you could probably adapt it.