Ship stat planner

[bszlrd]

I've made a simple ship stat planner a few months ago. It was quite unwieldy, so I've ported it to a Blender script.
It can calculate acceleration based on ship masses and thruster power, and it calculates deltaVs too.
Update: I've managed to turn it into a blender addon finaly, and it' even saves the values within the blend file

[bszlrd]

Updated it, now it's a proper addon, no need for launching scripts and such.
Next step, get it to output a proper shipdef.lua.

[torham2234]

How do I activate/download this addon? It does not seem to show up in addon menu in Blender.

[Nyankosensei]

In the addons preferences of blender import the file .py

[bszlrd]

Yes, you install it as Nyankosensei said. Filter the addons for scene, or search for pioneer. It's called Pioneer Ship Planner. It will be in the Scene tab in the Properties window. This way you don't have to select anything to make it show up.

[bszlrd]

I've updated this little addon.
You can now set the class, manufacturer, model file and equipments and other data too.
It can now output ship.lua file, the export button is at the bottom. It will save it next to where the blend file is, and it will use the same filename too, so you can store these things in the ship source file directly.
All equipment values are the defaults from Pioneer, and they are only written to the file if they are changed, so they won't clutter it up unnecessarily.



And a sample output:

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-- Copyright © 2008-2014 Pioneer Developers. See AUTHORS.txt for details 
-- Licensed under the terms of CC-BY-SA 3.0. See licenses/CC-BY-SA-3.0.txt
-- Generated with Pioneer Ship Planner Blender Addon

define_ship {
	name = 'Amphiesma',
	ship_class = 'medium_courier',
	manufacturer = 'opli',
	model = 'amphiesma',
	price = 168000,

	forward_thrust = 4000000,
	reverse_thrust = 1000000,
	up_thrust = 1000000,
	down_thrust = 500000,
	left_thrust = 500000,
	righ_thrust = 500000,
	angular_thrust = 4000000,

	hull_mass = 18,
	fuel_tank_mass = 24,
	capacity = 38,
	max_cargo = 38,
	min_crew = 1,
	max_crew = 2,

	hyperdrive_class = 1,
	max_engine = 4,
	effective_exhaust_velocity = 22000000,

	max_laser = 1,
	max_missile = 4,

}

[impaktor]

Should this be hosted somewhere more visible? Like on the download page on the pioneer page. "addons/utilities" or is it also linked from the wiki?

[bszlrd]

I think I'll put it up on the wiki, but I want to check some things before that.

[laarmen]

This should also be included in the source tree, so that we can update it whenever we change the ship format in the game. Maybe in scripts?