elitespecial

Find "special" bodies in Elite Dangerous journal scan logs

What is this?

It is a little tool I wrote in Java to tell me if I scanned objects that I considered "interesting"

It continuously watches your journals and shows an entry if it matches one of the rules below.

What kind of things are interesting?

It's rather subjective, but here is my list of things that it uses that are interesting to me:

• Has atmosphere and is landable (this shouldn't happen, but it sure would be interesting!)
• Is landable and terraformable
• Has gravity higher than 3 and is landable
• Is "close" to it's parent (defined as less than 0.5 light seconds away)
• Has rings that are wider than 1 light second
• bodies on the inner side of, actually INSIDE of, or less than 300km to a ring
• Moon of a moon
• greater than 10,000,000 surface pressure
• Surface temp > 1200K and is landable
• Rotates faster than 0.3 days and is NOT tidally locked
• Landable and small < 300km
• High eccentricity > 0.5 AND is landable AND completes an orbit in less than 7 days
• High eccentricity > 0.9
• Orbits in less than 0.2 days

Can I change the detection rules?

Not at this time, perhaps in a future version.

How can I run it?

• Get Java 8 and install it - You may already have it installed

• Get the EXE file from the releases page and run it

• If you don't want to install the JRE, you can get the tar.gz instead from the Java website and extract it to a folder called "jre" wherever the elitespecial.exe file is

How can I trust you/this to not break my computer?

You shouldn't trust anything on the internet, especially some random stranger telling you to download stuff.

But if you look through my history, other tools I've written, and the tool I wrote that was featured on a game developers site, I think I am pretty trustworthy.

Your code is terrible!

Thanks, I try.

How can I build the source?

Method 1

• Use Eclipse with IvyDE (use the update site method here if the marketplace version does not work)
• Clone the project locally
• Right-click and package as JAR
• Use Launch4j to make a .EXE

Method 2:

• Install Apache Ant - or using whatever package manager you have

Command prompt:

• git clone https://github.com/imathrowback/elitespecial.git
• cd elitespecial
• ant jar
• ant run