Spacebuild Environment Probe Name Output

[carocrazy132]

In the latest life support in space build 3, there is an environment probe that gives you the name of the planet (really just tells you what atmosphere you are in) you are currently on (as well as other atmospheric properties). The probe does not, however, output the planet name. Does anyone have a way of grabbing the planet name without using a million coordinates and checking where you are to see if you're on the planet? I would much rather not take this approach as I don't really feel like taking the time to GET all those coordinates.

-All help appreciated greatly

[Rybec]

I don't have any sort of fancy trick, but you *might* be able to use the entity find functions to get the atmospheres.
That'd give you coords, and you could figure out which planet is which by having something point at the planet so you can identify it.
From there you could just do a if (Pos:distance(Planet)<Planet's radius) to see if you're on the planet.

That reduces it to one coordinate and one radius per planet, much easier to track.

[Divran]

McBuilds has custom E2 functions such as E:lsName() which returns the name of the atmosphere E is currently in.

[carocrazy132]

Unfortunately Divran, I mostly use my ship on spaceage so IsName isn't on there.

as for Rybec, is there an object that controls the atmospher that I could use as this pointer? If I could simply find the distance from the center of the atmosphere using such a point then this solution works great, I would rather not create an object on each planet for this purpose, but it may have to be done.

[Divran]

Unfortunately Divran, I mostly use my ship on spaceage so IsName isn't on there.

as for Rybec, is there an object that controls the atmospher that I could use as this pointer? If I could simply find the distance from the center of the atmosphere using such a point then this solution works great, I would rather not create an object on each planet for this purpose, but it may have to be done.

That's L, not I, in lsName.

I've forgotten what the entity class names are, but yes, the planet atmospheres are entities and you can find them using the find functions. Try something like this to find it:

@outputs Entities:array
interval(1000)
findInSphere(owner():pos(),1000)
Entities = findToArray()
printTable(Entities)

[feha]

findByClass("base_sb_planet2") or findByClass("sb_base_planet2")

Dont remember which one. Also, for sb2 maps like sb_gooniverse, remove "2". Myself I usually put "*" there so my e2 works on any sb_ map.

The lsBlah() functionso n mcbuild does not work on planets entity, as they apparently doesnt return as valid. Instead we solve that by creating a invisible holo at every planet, then use it. Just remember that the holos for some reason doesnt work immediately, as if it takes 1 second to actually spawn them.

[Schilcote]

LS planets are designated by a logic_case entity in their center. The first output of the logic_case is the name of the planet. You can find it with find functions, but reading the data from it is a different matter. I don't think it can be done.

[carocrazy132]

I continue to see base_sb_planet2 pop up on the nearby entites, but the atmosphere name, etc. seems to be a property of that specific entity of base_sb_planet2, anyone know how I can get this information out of the entity?

[Divran]

I continue to see base_sb_planet2 pop up on the nearby entites, but the atmosphere name, etc. seems to be a property of that specific entity of base_sb_planet2, anyone know how I can get this information out of the entity?

Look's like it's (in lua)

Ent.sbenviroment:GetEnviromentName()

[carocrazy132]

I tried Identifying the planets by gravity but in forlorn there are 3 planets with gravity of 1 and their pressure is the same. The amount of O2, etc. will change depending on whether or not someone turns on a gas compressor on that planet or not so I can't base off of that, any suggestions? I could use feha's Idea but I would REALLY rather not take that time, thats a whole second set of coordinates.