Re: [RaceIntoSpace-developer] More documentation and two suggestions

[holy_moly <hol...@gm...>]

Michael McCarty schrieb:
> [on mission code]
> I'll try to document a little more of how the mission code works.
> What part is the toughest to understand?  Is it the weird mission
> strings and failure branching or something else? 

I got to understand the missions strings as each being a token
symbolizing one special step (Launch, Orb-Burn, ...) and the various
special tokens.

I'm puzzled about the mission branching but I've only had a few hours to
look at the code so far.

> You'll find the original mission code data in
> old-sources/utils/mission_dat.c.   


> The MMM structure is the failure
> branching where the negative numbers are a specific end of mission
> thing and the positive numbers are the step index to go to when there
> is a failure that can be recovered from.

I'll check that and try to understand it.

> 
> If you you want to toss everything into an XML file this is definately
> the place to start with the Mission structure from that file.


You are so right and that file helped a lot.
I'm currently trying to get a visual of the steps and when I have that I
can get to a) document those structures and b) move them to different
format.

So... great info and lots of fun fiddling around with these files.

Cheers,
Fabian