Based on an idea by Wazatiste.
Have you ever wondered why every Shark in the Royal Boron Navy reads Boron Shark on your sektorview? We could now pin it down to an error in the navigational software from Terracorp. The translation subroutines were at fault and reverted to standard names. Our little piece of software adds the ability to read and display the name and id of capital raceships.
This script runs in the background and renames capital race ships with a random, race specific name. Ships that already carry a special name e.g. Argon One will keep their name.
This script supports 2 different naming schemes 'normal' and 'extended'. When set to auto (default) it will look if XTM is installed and use the extended naming scheme else uses the standard naming scheme.
The default naming scheme will rename ships to [race prefix] [shipname].
The extended naming scheme will rename ships to [race prefix]-[ship class]-[short name of shiptype] [shipname]. This scheme will also add color to the shipclass.
The default behavier can be configured in the textfile:
<t id="3">2</t><!-- use extended info off(0)/on(1)/auto(2)-->
The script works fine in vanilla (if XTM is installed, the extended shipclasses are supported) - German and english textfile included.
As always any ideas are welcome
Download: v1.1
.spk / .zip
v1.1
* set the AL to default off
* added uninstall routines
* set proper race prefixes (thanks to DSE)
* added an option to choose between standard and extended renaming
* added Xenon shipname generator
Install:
Install the files and enable the AL Plugin in the AL menue
Uninstall:
Disable the AL Plugin in the AL menue and wait until your logbook shows a message.
Ideas and additions the the nameslist are always welcome
Please post them here : http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=202829