eWSSC Keyboard Shortcuts

• CTRL + S = Exports/Downloads the Sectors.yaml.

Left Sidebar Controls

• Click and hold the left mouse button on an Orbit/Planet/Moon and drag and drop it around to rearrange it. Note: you have to create at least 1 SolarSystems to be able to move Sectors down. Also note that you can't move Suns.

Universe Controls

Navigation

• Left Mouse Button press and hold = rotate
• Right Mouse Button press and hold = pan
• Mouse Wheel = zoom
• W, A, S, D, C, SPACE = pan + zoom
• Left Mouse Button double click on a playfield = center camera around it and highlight it in the left sidebar

Map interaction

• SHIFT + Left Mouse Button press and hold = activate snapping mode. Move Orbit/Planet/Moon around near a sun to snap your playfield to its new system.
• CTRL + Left Mouse Button click on a playfield and then move + click to destination playfield = Create a warp line between playfields. Press ESC to cancel.
• ALT + Left Mouse Button click on a warp line = Toggle the Allow / Deny states for the connected playfields.
• CTRL + Left Mouse Button click on a warp line = Remove the warp line from the connected playfields.
• CTRL + ALT + Left Mouse Button click on a playfield = Removes the playfield.

Visibility

• ALT + O = toggle visibility of Orbit Lines
• ALT + G = toggle visibility of Grid Lines
• ALT + H = toggle visibility of Axes Helper
• NUMPAD 5 = reset camera position and rotation to center

eWSSC Settings

Visual Helpers

• Show Grid
• Show Axes Helper (red = X, green = Y, blue = Z)
• Show Orbit Circles
• Show Performance Suns (reloads the page. Activate this if you have a lot of Solar Systems and want high performance!)

Skybox Backgrounds

• -- Choose your Skybox Color -- dark olive toxic dark purple purple dream pink ored red orange dark blue blue teal yellow clown greyp

eWSSC Documentation

Welcome to eWSSC!

This tool is probably something you have not seen before, so please make sure to read this little Documentation, check out the Shortcuts and the Settings before you use it.

Sectors vs SolarSystems?

Sectors are coming from the older Empyrion versions, where the whole universe was built around a centered Sun.

Multi Solar Systems can be seen as cluster, which allows you to put multiple Suns around the universe and inside those "Suns" (Solar Systems) there can be orbits, planets and moons.

Most common mistakes

• Top 1: Empty Names! This will generate "undefined" outputs in your yaml.
• Top 2: Duplicate Names! Make sure to have unique Solar / Planet / Orbit / Moon names!
• Top 3: Wrong Template! If you do not import your Scenario/Playfields you can make most likely mistakes and reference Templates, which do not exist.

The power of the Sun!

The Sun is a special case if you want to make an universe. We also have to differentiate between the auto generated Sun by Empyrion and the Typ: Sun, we can set.

In the old Sectors, if you do not set a Sun, the game generates a Sun automatically - you just don't see a nice Sun in the universe map ingame. With Alpha 11 you can also add more than 1 Sun to your universe - even within one Solar System.
Anyways, if you set Type: Sun make sure to set Sun also as Template.

Warp lines

Warp lines in Empyrion are the fundament of your universe. They decide if SVs or CVs can travel through the universe. Some notes:

• Yellow line: <= 15 AU. SVs can warp from A to B
• Orange line: <= 20 AU. CVs can warp from A to B
• Red line: <= 25 AU. CVs can warp from A to B
• White line (Wormhole): > 25 AU. CVs can warp from A to B

With Allow / Deny paths you can also set given directions the player should jump.

What does Import Playfields mean?

eWSSC makes use of some auto suggestions based on data available. If you click at a planet and check the Template input field, you see "Barren" for example. Those Templates are the folder names of your Playfields located in your Scenario. To have those auto suggested, just import your whole Playfields folder at the top right or on the Import page

For more information about eWSSC make sure to check out the About page.

What does GalaxyMode mean?

With Alpha 12 randomized Solar Systems got implemented. However in certain situations you want to keep your static designed Universe in place and just add the randomized Solar System "on top" of your static designed Universe. GalaxyMode = true would mean that. GalaxyMode = false does not really exist in your Sectors.yaml because once a Sectors.yaml is found by the game, it will fall back to your static designed universe in any case and don't show any randomized Solar System in the first place.

Type

The Type is very important to decide what Icon should be used and how eWSSC is handling things internally.

• Sun: Use this for old Sectors. For Solar Systems it's basically not required at all. Don't forget to set "Sun" as Template!
• Planet: Use this if you have a typical Planet inside an Orbit scenario. The orbit can be configured directly in the planet overview. Don't forget to set your Template!

Origin

If you want roleplay or immersion on your server, you can set any Origin name you want here. Together with the ID it can then be used for restricted playfields, restricted Instances, restricted Teleporters or restricted Stargates.

(Orbit)Template

The Template is mandatory. It's basically the folder name in your Scenario/Playfields directory.
Note: A Sun has a predefined "Sun" Template you have to type manually.
Pro tip: click on the top right "Import Playfields" button to get auto completion for your Templates!

StarClass

For the star models, we support these:

• StarClass: O = SunBlueGiant
• StarClass: B = SunBlueGiant
• StarClass: A = SunWhiteDwarf
• StarClass: F = SunYellowWhite
• StarClass: G = SunYellow
• StarClass: K = SunRedGiant
• StarClass: M = SunRedDwarf
• StarClass: N = SunNeutron
• StarClass: BH = BlackHole
• StarClass: YourName = Finally you can create your very own StarClass by changing/adding a relevant SolarSystemConfigYOURNAME.yaml.

Check the GalaxyConfig.ecf in Content/Configuration for more information.