[MOD] Tactical Map

[MegaJohnny]

Thanks for your quick responds. But it was my own mistake. Didn't check the installed files. I did unzip the files but had I had the 2 times the same map in my directory. So off course the mod didn't work that way.
Everything works great, and I must say that you did a great job with this mod.
Will also try the mod tomorrow in x-rebirth VR edition.

Thanks! Glad to know it's working.

All working perfectly, no issues....

The following observations are based on a possible not yet implemented feature or lack of understanding on my part of intended action...

1. After using tactical map would prefer to stay with map for zones, sectors etc ...works with zoom out/zoom in but does not feel quite right.
2. Attack ... can give command to attack enemy ships (red) but command rejected if friendly (green).

The movement command works really well,, liked very much.

Thanks again!

1. I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure what you mean here - would you like to use the tactical map at the zone level, and use the vanilla map at other zoom levels? I think it's possible, but I'd rather improve the tactical map so it's nice to use at every level. Is there anything in particular that makes it feel wrong?
2. Ah! Should be easy to implement - I just forgot about that use case. I'd like to put it as a grid button, just so it's harder to attack a friendly ship by accident.

[birdtable]

Sorry if I did not explain clearly,,, I admit it is open to confusion.. It would be nice to use your tactical map at all levels ... Not used to using zoom for maps so maybe just a comfort thing... You must have put a lot of work in for the tactical map to work so smoothly...
Agree about grid button..

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Just been giving this a go today via the SideBar and it's great

Some feedback in case useful:

1. Would it be possible to access the Tactical Map via either the Property Owned or Ship Detail menu? This would support using it with particular ships without needing to find it in the Tactical Map first. Maybe I'm missing something already possible.

2. Would it be possible to select the Skunk in the Tactical Map, and then have the appropriate commands propagate to the Skunk's squad?

Edit: 3. Showing player property in the tactical sector map per zone is a cool idea. I don't have a big empire to test with but it occurred to me that the list of zones and property could become quite long. I'm not sure if making zone property sub-lists collapsible would necessarily be better but I thought I'd mention the topic in case it stimulated ideas.

[MegaJohnny]

Just been giving this a go today via the SideBar and it's great

Some feedback in case useful:

1. Would it be possible to access the Tactical Map via either the Property Owned or Ship Detail menu? This would support using it with particular ships without needing to find it in the Tactical Map first. Maybe I'm missing something already possible.

2. Would it be possible to select the Skunk in the Tactical Map, and then have the appropriate commands propagate to the Skunk's squad?

Edit: 3. Showing player property in the tactical sector map per zone is a cool idea. I don't have a big empire to test with but it occurred to me that the list of zones and property could become quite long. I'm not sure if making zone property sub-lists collapsible would necessarily be better but I thought I'd mention the topic in case it stimulated ideas.

Thanks for the feedback

1. The MainMenu.xml thing from the readme will do that for you - I use it myself. The only reason this isn't the default is that the map doesn't implement the player jumpdrive yet, and I didn't want to break it for people who use it routinely. I'll get support for the player jump drive going (should be only a few lines) and make this the default for the next update.

2. Good idea! I can't say it will make it into the next update, but it'll be on the todo list.

3. Yeah, I have the same conundrum - not much property, so I don't know exactly when it becomes "too much". It was originally made for sending commandable ships to other zones straight from sector view, so maybe if only commandable ships were displayed there? Extend/collapse button could work too, but I'd have trouble thinking where to put it.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

You're welcome!

1. The MainMenu.xml thing from the readme will do that for you - I use it myself. The only reason this isn't the default is that the map doesn't implement the player jumpdrive yet, and I didn't want to break it for people who use it routinely. I'll get support for the player jump drive going (should be only a few lines) and make this the default for the next update.

Ah, of course. I am a while off acquiring the JD components so I will give it a go without the SideBar Extension.

2. Good idea! I can't say it will make it into the next update, but it'll be on the todo list.

Cool

3. Yeah, I have the same conundrum - not much property, so I don't know exactly when it becomes "too much". It was originally made for sending commandable ships to other zones straight from sector view, so maybe if only commandable ships were displayed there? Extend/collapse button could work too, but I'd have trouble thinking where to put it.

Restricting the view to commandable ships sounds like it could be a good idea. As empires grow I'd imagine a lot of games will have stations, and we can assign patrols to their Defence Officers if we'd want those not in the list (or vice versa).

Thinking about this a bit more, could station icons operate as extend/collapse button for their assigned ships in their sector map? A bit like how you neatly re-purposed the "+" icons. Still, if it's a faff, the idea above of just hiding assigned ships still sounds like an improvement.

[MegaJohnny]

I've uploaded 1.1 just now - see the OP for the list of changes. I recommend deleting both existing folders before extracting the new ones.

The jump button is untested, so anyone with a jumpdrive please let me know whether or not it works properly. It doesn't make use of kickstarter fuel in the player's inventory, but basic jump/abort hopefully works.

Restricting the view to commandable ships sounds like it could be a good idea. As empires grow I'd imagine a lot of games will have stations, and we can assign patrols to their Defence Officers if we'd want those not in the list (or vice versa).

Thinking about this a bit more, could station icons operate as extend/collapse button for their assigned ships in their sector map? A bit like how you neatly re-purposed the "+" icons. Still, if it's a faff, the idea above of just hiding assigned ships still sounds like an improvement.

Extend button for stations does sound like a good idea - the cell is just blank of course right now. And that leaves only stations and commandable ships being in the view by default. I'll try to have this in for the next version.

Edit: I've just realised, if we assume (reasonably) that subordinate ships will often be in a different zone than the station, they won't be folded into the station often. So I think I'll play with subordinates just not displayed for a while, and see if it annoys me too much.

[Informer]

Cool stuff, I like the tactical map and using it a lot in my game
Keep up the good work.

Greetzzz

[Informer]

I did try the new version today, and this is just awesome. I had no problems with the map after playing 2 hours. Also jump drive did work great.
I hope you keep this mod updated, if any updates come for XR. I already used to this tactical map, and cannot imagine to play on the vanilla map again. It makes the ship so much easier to control.
Good good job m8

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Looking forward to testing tomorrow

[birdtable]

Sorry .. not much to report, it just works flawlessly.
Grid button allows attack of friendlies.... Jumpdrive works just fine vanilla or (modded) Euclids Jumpdrive

Maybe Sparky who is a bit more analytical may find/suggest something but for me it just works..

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Looking forward to testing tomorrow

Sorry I didn't get around to this yet - still on my to-do list though.

[A.Persyn]

When in the tactical zone map, selecting an object then DETAILS then PLOT COURSE then GUIDANCE or FOLLOW, it doesn't work. No mission objective box and no autopilot. It works fine in the sector map.

Also, the radial menu changes in this are incompatible with CWIR which uses the same menu for launching probes. Only broken in the zone map not the sector map.

[MegaJohnny]

I'm very pleased to hear it's working as a replacement for the vanilla map for people I will definitely keep it updated with new versions of XR. I've also been working on some new shiny stuff for it which should be ready in a couple of days. I haven't forgotten Sparky's request, which I'll do after that.

When in the tactical zone map, selecting an object then DETAILS then PLOT COURSE then GUIDANCE or FOLLOW, it doesn't work. No mission objective box and no autopilot. It works fine in the sector map.

Also, the radial menu changes in this are incompatible with CWIR which uses the same menu for launching probes. Only broken in the zone map not the sector map.

I've noticed as well that sometimes "plot course" doesn't seem to do anything. I personally doubt this mod has an effect on course plotting done through the builtin object menu, but you never know. I'll look into it. (Edit: Looks like I was naughty and didn't convert stuff properly when switching to object menu. Fix will be in next update.)

About CWIR conflict, this mod doesn't do anything to the radial menus themselves. The only patching done to MainMenu.xml targets open_conversation_menu elements specifically. There's a chance that even this causes some conflict, so I'll have a look, but see if another of your mods might be doing it.

[Informer]

When in the tactical zone map, selecting an object then DETAILS then PLOT COURSE then GUIDANCE or FOLLOW, it doesn't work. No mission objective box and no autopilot. It works fine in the sector map.

Also, the radial menu changes in this are incompatible with CWIR which uses the same menu for launching probes. Only broken in the zone map not the sector map.

Yeah I can confirm it to that the plot cource/guidaance/follow isn't working from the tactial map.

Thanks for the work MegaJohnny
Greetzzz

[Zlisten]

How delete thise mod?

[Informer]

Hello MegaJohnny

When I go to the "my Property menu" and select a ship, and then click on "show map" the tactical map appears, but when I hit the "back" button in the tactical map, for going back to "my property" menu, it goes directly back to the game. Would it be possible that I get back in the "my property"menu?
When I want to check many ships with the "show map" button, every time I have to select the "my property" menu over and over again. Could this be fixed?

Thanks for this great mod.

Greetzzzz

[MegaJohnny]

Hello MegaJohnny

When I go to the "my Property menu" and select a ship, and then click on "show map" the tactical map appears, but when I hit the "back" button in the tactical map, for going back to "my property" menu, it goes directly back to the game. Would it be possible that I get back in the "my property"menu?
When I want to check many ships with the "show map" button, every time I have to select the "my property" menu over and over again. Could this be fixed?

Thanks for this great mod.

Greetzzzz

Fixed for the next version - I mistakenly told the menu to quit out (as if you pressed delete) when the history is empty instead of returning to the previous thing.

How delete thise mod?

Just delete "mej_tacticalmap" and "mej_tacmap_vanillacommands" from your extensions folder, no special uninstall process. It sticks to your save-game in case I want to add anything later that requires it, but for now you should just be able to remove it from the save XML if you really want to use the same saves.

[Zlisten]

Just delete "mej_tacticalmap" and "mej_tacmap_vanillacommands" from your extensions folder, no special uninstall process. It sticks to your save-game in case I want to add anything later that requires it, but for now you should just be able to remove it from the save XML if you really want to use the same saves.

I tried to just delete the mod, but after removing them, I can not load my game because the version does not fit.

[Informer]

Hello MegaJohnny

When I go to the "my Property menu" and select a ship, and then click on "show map" the tactical map appears, but when I hit the "back" button in the tactical map, for going back to "my property" menu, it goes directly back to the game. Would it be possible that I get back in the "my property"menu?
When I want to check many ships with the "show map" button, every time I have to select the "my property" menu over and over again. Could this be fixed?

Thanks for this great mod.

Greetzzzz

Fixed for the next version - I mistakenly told the menu to quit out (as if you pressed delete) when the history is empty instead of returning to the previous thing.

Thanks m8. Looking forward to it. Any time frame when the new version will be out?

[bbn]

Great mod! I love it!

Alas...

There is one feature missing that stops me from using it in my current game. Namely, the display of exploration percentage on the map. Is it something that you can add in some future update?