[request] Show Sector Names

[Vas]

I'd like a mod that shows sectors in the area where they are all visible, so you can choose a path that gets you where you want to go. I'm not gonna continue playing if I miss Engi Homeworld every single time. I've run through like 50 times so far and haven't found Engi Homeworlds. I went through 4 Engi Sectors in a row, but no Engi Homeworld. Getting quite tired of it.

Showing sector names can be when you hover over all the dots or as text below/above each dot. I don't know. I'm just sick of getting to the end to have to restart over and over again trying to find one damn ship. All I want is the Stealth Cruiser, I like it. It's probably the best looking ship I've seen in the game.

[Fenris]

It would also help people get other achievements and ships

*Cough*CrystalCruiser *Cough*

[agigabyte]

It would also help people get other achievements and ships

*Cough*CrystalCruiser *Cough*

Don't try to find it, it will find you.

[UltraMantis]

It's not possible to add such a feature with a mod. Even if modders could find out what sectors the game will take place in, i doubt they could neatly present this info to the user. Creating a hover tooltip requires re-programming the game.

[Vas]

The game already shows you what sectors are what, it just doesn't tell you their names till you are right next to them (as in, about to jump into them). So that part is already done, we just need to figure out how to display the names of those places so people will know what path to take.

[kartoFlane]

we just need to figure out how to display the names of those places

That's the hard part. We have no way to do this.

[Vas]

Would there be a way to change the color of a system? For example, make homeworld systems appear a little darker green instead of just plain green, or darker red, or darker purple? If it uses program colors and not just an image file, I'm betting it'd be a little easier this way, wouldn't it?

[kartoFlane]

The problem is, all of this stuff is hardcoded - in order to change that, we'd have to modify the game's source code, which we simply don't have.

[UltraMantis]

What modders can do is alter the resources (images, sounds) and XML files that the engine uses to do what it's programmed to do.

What modders can not do, is alter the programming that runs the engine.

[Vas]

Ah, I thought colors might actually have been in an XML. I haven't looked to much into it since I can't mod.