Programming Question Settin IDS frequencies for Docking ports

[ben bradford]

Hi all,
I have downloaded station building blocks V4.0 and have wanted to dock to on one of the ports on a given module. i was wondering how i would go about setting a port IDS frequency by editing the .scn file of my scenario.
Any help would be appreciated! :sos:

 

[mjanicki]

Hi, Ben.

I have downloaded station building blocks V4.0 and have wanted to dock to on one of the ports on a given module. i was wondering how i would go about setting a port IDS frequency by editing the .scn file of my scenario.

If you really wish to just modify the one scenario, then you can add this:

  IDS 0:540 100

to the particular building block ship section in the scenario file.

However, you can edit the config file for the building block vessel so that its docking ports always have a given frequency. For example, the BM110.cfg file in "config/vessels" defines the docking ports this way:

BEGIN_DOCKLIST
 0    0     5.076047     0  0  1    1  0  0
 0    0    -5.076047     0  0 -1   -1  0  0
END_DOCKLIST

If you add an IDS frequency to the end of those, they will have that frequency. However, the frequencies are not entered exactly. You enter a code for them instead. 540 results in a frequency of 135.00 MHz, so if you modify the first line of the docking ports to this:

 0    0     5.076047     0  0  1    1  0  0    540

you will have an IDS frequency of 135.00 MHz on the first docking port.

Note you can also assign a transponder code to the the building block by adding this to the config file:

EnableXPDR = TRUE
XPDR = 470

Doing it this way will ensure that that building block will always have those frequencies, instead of having to edit every single scenario file.

Hope that makes some sense and helps out.

-- Mike

 

[ben bradford]

Thanks so much!! i've done this now and its made docking a LOT easier as i was trying to do it with no IDS frequency last time.
Thanks!!:thumbup: