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version 1.2 works great.

can you put this on the Steam Workshop? I can't create an account on NexusMods, it only has paid options for registration

Try disabling the adblocker / noscript extensions in your browser. Normally when clicking on the manual download option, the download starts automatically.

This looks like a great mod, but sadly it doesn't work on Linux. To make it work, you would need to change all the file names to lowercase (a bug in XR prevents mods from working if any file uses an uppercase character). But even after changing all the file names, I still had some issues:
- when I click on "details" for a ship and I go back, the map does not reappear and I can't issue any command, so I have to quit
- buttons on the lower row of commands (patrol, transfer, attack object) do not do anything (they don't have an orange background, but they don't seem disabled)
I hope these issues can be fixed eventually, but I don't know how you could debug them without using Linux...

There is also an issue with French: the button texts are too long, so button texts overlap - if they can't be trunctated automatically, I guess we would have to provide abbreviated translations.

lostboron wrote:This looks like a great mod, but sadly it doesn't work on Linux. To make it work, you would need to change all the file names to lowercase (a bug in XR prevents mods from working if any file uses an uppercase character). But even after changing all the file names, I still had some issues:
- when I click on "details" for a ship and I go back, the map does not reappear and I can't issue any command, so I have to quit
- buttons on the lower row of commands (patrol, transfer, attack object) do not do anything (they don't have an orange background, but they don't seem disabled)
I hope these issues can be fixed eventually, but I don't know how you could debug them without using Linux...

There is also an issue with French: the button texts are too long, so button texts overlap - if they can't be trunctated automatically, I guess we would have to provide abbreviated translations.

Thaaanks, man! I also use Linux and I didn't know why it would not work! Now I understand. Do you think this mod is worth it in Linux in its current state or it is fruitless because of the map not reappearing?

One big flaw I see on X Rebirth's regular maps is that it does not show coordinates. Roguey's X Rebirth maps have coordinates in them, how could I use them if I can't access this information? That would save me a lot of wandering around in Toride/Koroni. I even tried to get it via mod but the variable player.primaryship.position has coordinates relatives to zone, whilst roguey's are relative to the whole sector.

Update: one way to help debugging them - Linux or not - is right-clicking on X Rebirth in steam, clicking properties, launch options and adding -debug all -logfile debug.log (I also add -skipintro but that's me). Then you can check the file ~/.config/EgoSoft/X Rebirth/96679891/debug.log for messages saying what's wrong (but they are not very useful in my experience, being generic xml error messages).

update 2: thanks to your first attempt, I think I got it working. Instead of just renaming every file to lowercase, I soft-linked every file which had capital letters on it to lowercase, e.g.

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ln -s 0001-L049.xml 0001-l049.xml

and

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ln -s MEJ_TacticalMap_Menu.xml mej_tacticalmap_menu.xml

. I tested selecting a lot of objects, asking for details and getting back, and the map reappeared in every case. However, I could not get my units to attack enemies by using the attack button, I am not sure if I did not understand how I am supposed to do it, or it it's a bug. Anyway, apart from that the mod seems to be behaving perfectly, the orange buttons perform their actions.

Great mod!
You should upload it on Steam, so more people benefit from your work.

I also foind lots of these in my log

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[=ERROR=] 96573.35 Widget system error. Dimensions for button are too small. Button elements will overlap eachother. Dimensions are: width(91 px) height(21 px) - minimum dimensions for this button is 23 px

Coudl they be from your mod?

Hi again - sorry for the period of absence. I don't plan on any big features in the near future, but I should definitely be making sure this still works!

The mod now has a Github repository you can use to browse the code or make comments!

MakerLinux wrote:
lostboron wrote:This looks like a great mod, but sadly it doesn't work on Linux. To make it work, you would need to change all the file names to lowercase (a bug in XR prevents mods from working if any file uses an uppercase character). But even after changing all the file names, I still had some issues:
- when I click on "details" for a ship and I go back, the map does not reappear and I can't issue any command, so I have to quit
- buttons on the lower row of commands (patrol, transfer, attack object) do not do anything (they don't have an orange background, but they don't seem disabled)
I hope these issues can be fixed eventually, but I don't know how you could debug them without using Linux...

There is also an issue with French: the button texts are too long, so button texts overlap - if they can't be trunctated automatically, I guess we would have to provide abbreviated translations.
Thaaanks, man! I also use Linux and I didn't know why it would not work! Now I understand. Do you think this mod is worth it in Linux in its current state or it is fruitless because of the map not reappearing?

One big flaw I see on X Rebirth's regular maps is that it does not show coordinates. Roguey's X Rebirth maps have coordinates in them, how could I use them if I can't access this information? That would save me a lot of wandering around in Toride/Koroni. I even tried to get it via mod but the variable player.primaryship.position has coordinates relatives to zone, whilst roguey's are relative to the whole sector.

Update: one way to help debugging them - Linux or not - is right-clicking on X Rebirth in steam, clicking properties, launch options and adding -debug all -logfile debug.log (I also add -skipintro but that's me). Then you can check the file ~/.config/EgoSoft/X Rebirth/96679891/debug.log for messages saying what's wrong (but they are not very useful in my experience, being generic xml error messages).

update 2: thanks to your first attempt, I think I got it working. Instead of just renaming every file to lowercase, I soft-linked every file which had capital letters on it to lowercase, e.g.
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ln -s 0001-L049.xml 0001-l049.xml
and
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ln -s MEJ_TacticalMap_Menu.xml mej_tacticalmap_menu.xml
. I tested selecting a lot of objects, asking for details and getting back, and the map reappeared in every case. However, I could not get my units to attack enemies by using the attack button, I am not sure if I did not understand how I am supposed to do it, or it it's a bug. Anyway, apart from that the mod seems to be behaving perfectly, the orange buttons perform their actions.

Thanks for reporting - I didn't test for Linux compatibility at all up to this point. I remember there was a handy guide for modders on the forum, but I can't seem to find it yet. Is it just those two files you had to make the symbolic links for? That idea's very clever, by the way, and it sounds like a good candidate for a Python script to do it automatically.

Any situation where a menu was supposed to open (including from another menu) but instead there's no menu and the controls are disabled, this is when the menu's code had an error and failed to open, but the game is still in a kind of menu mode. If you have the debug console bound, you can do a "RELOADUI" as a workaround.

I do see your point about the coordinates, and I'll try to fit them in over the holomap - the caveat is you can query the coordinates under the cursor (relative to the current space) but it's always something on the ecliptic plane, ie the y-coordinate is always zero.

About the attack command, the workflow generally is to select one or more friendly ships, and left click on the grid button, when the text should turn orange. Then you right-click the target ship in the holomap to issue the order. If that's what you're doing, see if you can spot any debug output or cases where it does/doesn't work, and I'll look into it.

oliverjanda wrote:Great mod!
You should upload it on Steam, so more people benefit from your work.

I also foind lots of these in my log
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[=ERROR=] 96573.35 Widget system error. Dimensions for button are too small. Button elements will overlap eachother. Dimensions are: width(91 px) height(21 px) - minimum dimensions for this button is 23 px
Coudl they be from your mod?

Thanks! I want to do that soonish - preferably once it's known to work on Linux out of the box, and nothing else is broken.

The debug output is almost certainly from this, as it happens to me when I switch to small HUD menus. It doesn't seem to break anything, but I think when using small HUD menus the buttons are just too small, and the UI system complains about it. I might try to do a special display mode for small HUD menu setting

Thanks! I might just use the large HUD until then because I try to keep track of any errors in my log and this is causing many.

Is it possible to post a short example on how to add a command to the map?

I found out the issue not between large and small menu but between sidemenu and hud menu

What's your screen resolution? I think maybe screen resolution and UI settings both have an impact on whether you end up with this error.

For the short example, good idea, I've written something up on the Github

hopefully it's short enough, but it's all stuff I thought worth explaining.

I think its 1680 × 1050 (I'm not at home right now)

And would it be possible to bind Galaxy map to ; and System map to : ?

On now I found an annoying bug

You cant skip the 10 min cooldown after a jump (by using jumpdrive coolant) because the "jump" button is greyed out.

Fixed it by:

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        if hasJumpdrive then
            if nextJumpTime > GetCurTime() then
                text = menu.text.jump
                enabled = not onPlatform

Thanks, sorry about that, I never got round to implementing jumpdrive coolant support. I've made a simple change, similar to yours, which hopefully will fix it.

As for the hotkeys, I see you got responses from the real modding gurus

but I too sorely wish there was hotkey support in XR.

I've been testing a low-res mode that gets rid of the debug log spam on my end. The text is just a tad smaller in low-res mode than in the vanilla map. But using small HUD menus previously I had to squint at the text, and it's easier on the eyes now.

That's great news! I hope you publish it soon.

I'm working on adding some commands but didnt have much success with "follow me (again)"

tried it but the details windows doesnt show up anymore

Feel free to post the code you're using for your command, in case I can help!

I'm happy to see you're checking the Git repo

but it's not strictly meant to be used yet. It should work fine if you go to menu.objectDetails, uncomment the line with "gMain_object_closeup", and comment out the one with "MeJ_OpenObjectMenu".

I rolled back to my version. I'll wait until you put it on nexus then.

I mangaged to get my command working as a sidebar command.
I wouldn'T mid having it in the map too. as well leave/join squad and such

Is this mod compatible with XR v4.30? It seems it doesn't work properly with 4.30. Could you please let me know?

Thank you.

Hi, sorry for the long hiatus - I've hit a snag with getting initially selected rows+columns to work, but everything else is fine. If you don't rely on gamepad, or arrow keys on the keyboard, to navigate, you won't notice any difference besides occasional debug output. I'll upload it anyway so you can use the low-res mode.

I agree about the new commands, will add them quickly to the vanilla commands. The only caveat is add/leave squad won't have instant feedback - it'll show when the menu next refreshes.

ns88ns wrote:Is this mod compatible with XR v4.30? It seems it doesn't work properly with 4.30. Could you please let me know?

Thank you.

I'm on 4.30 myself, and on my end it works OK. Could you post what happens when you try to open the menu, and share any debug output that might be relevant?

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