Bugfixes:
-0.11 fixes bugs in GetBodyByIndex and GetBodyByName functions.
Now includes source code!
Extended planetary parameters (EPP) is a sidekick from Orbiter Galaxy developement. Its aim is to provide a standard for more detailed planetary parameters such as atmosphere composition, temperature ranges and lots of other stuff that might be usefull. A description file for extended planetary parameters also includes a description of the parent star, with additional parameters such as age, luminosity and temperature, so that add-on developers can program general solutions for things like for example dynamic heating that would work in all systems that support EPP.
It also allows system creators to add more flesh to their creations and allows any add-on using the EPP sdk to make use of that information. Additionally, EPP will be supported by Orbiter Galaxy 0.6.08 and further versions.
This SDK provides all the functionality you need to make whatever use you like of those parameters in your addons. The major part of the SDK is a parser to read .epp files, as well as several functions for retrieving and evaluating specific information. It is designed to give add-on developers the easiest possible access to extended parameters, and enables their use with only a few lines of code.
Note that extended planetary parameters will be updated in the future. Files written for future versions will still be compatible with earlier versions of EPP, although they will not be able to make use of newly integrated parameters. Add-on developers should stay tuned to update their projects when new versions become available, which will go hand in hand with Orbiter Galaxy developement.
If you have suggestions for parameters or special functions you'd like to see added to this SDK, feel free to make them!
There is a .epp file provided for the sol system, but it is not currently completed. If somebody feels like completing it, I would be very thankfull, since it's rather tedious buisness.
Credits:
This SDK borrows practically all code from the system generator in Orbiter Galaxy, which in turn borrows most of its code from StarGen. So, StarGen plays a major role in this project too, and quite a bit of code from it has been re-used