Ship's Library OXP

Disambiguation:

Oolite abounds with libraries!


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1 A Library in the programmer's sense: reusable code that people writing OXPs can use. That is to say instead of everyone writing a javascript method to land on a planet, one person does so and everyone else uses that:

  •Library.oxp
  •Cabal Common Library.oxp

2 A library of books or of ship/station descriptions:

  •Ship Library on the starting game screen - descriptions of ships, stations, asteroids and missiles mostly from the Vanilla game
  •View Ship Specifications - as above, but on the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked
  •Gallery OXP does something similar to the above but with all encountered items 
  •Technical Reference Library OXP - similar to Gallery but includes non-encountered ships.
  •Ship's Library OXP: by Cim (with the Ship's Manual; a half-dozen library books are addable)- see below on this page

The last four are accessed through the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked - all under Ship Systems

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The Ship's Library OXP was devised by Oolite's last Lead Developer Cim who also wrote a couple of books for it!

Ship's Library (docked - accessed via F4 ships-station interface page)
showing first part of the contents page of the contained Ship's Manual

Ship's Manual: description of F7 interface (for Vanilla game only)

Ship's Manual: showing second page on Fuel/Cargo scoops (a standard optional equipment)

Overview

• Download the OXZ (listed under Equipment in the Expansions Manager).
• You get access to the books in your library when you are docked - Try the F4 interface and look towards the end of the list under Ship Systems. Note that your library does not give you comparisons of Spacecraft & Orbital Stations - for that you need View Ship Specifications, which is called the Ship Library when you are inside it!
• You can also buy an in-flight reader for 200₢. This will provide an MFD. It will need priming with the n/b keys to allow you to scroll through your books (see Priming Equipment). Note that even the Vanilla game HUD supports 2 MFDs. See MFD for details on managing them (using the :/; keys). Your MFD might not show all the illustrations. But only the Ship's Manual has any, the other books don't.

The Library comes with your Ship's Manual:

Ship's Manual Contents

• Tip of the Day (varies!)

Ship controls and information displays

• Ship Systems Controls
• Station Systems Controls
• Standard In-flight Controls

Ship equipment, both standard and optional

• Standard Equipment
• Trading Equipment
• Combat Equipment
• Extra Equipment

A brief introduction to life in space

• Galactic Cooperative
• Interactions with other pilots
• Planetary Governments
• Planetary Economics
• Species of the Cooperative
• Thargoids
• History

Supplementary Volumes

You can also download (via the in-game Expansions Manager: also under Equipment) the following volumes:

• Captain Solo's Good Fortune by Captain Solo himself!
• Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life: lectures on the nomadic life of a space-farer (also by Cim).
• Ship's Library Book - Status Quo: Volume 1 of Drew Wagar's series
• Ship's Library Book - Mutabilis: Volume 2 of Drew Wagar's series

• The Traders Almanach link is here: this is an oxp (not an oxz), but is full of advice on what to trade between 90 or so planets in Galaxy 1!

Links

• See the bulletin board discussion here (2013+)

Tweaks

• How to make the MFD free: See Phkb's Tweak here (2021)

You may wish to consult How to tweak OXZ's

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Cim's Ship's Manual is top-notch. Lots of valuable game information. And his Extracts from the Tre Clan are also well worth reading. Tweak the OXP to make the MFD free and read en-route from witchpoint beacon to planet!