Displays commodities required, provided and needed when you land at a construction site and tracks cargo in your fleet carrier and starship. The focus is to create a simple to use and hands free tracker for system colonisation. I will be adding features often so check back here often. This was created using ChatGPT. It probably took me as long to create as a human could have programmed manually but I have no experience programming in Python or for the EDMC so it is kind of impressive.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/colonization-tool-architect-tracker.636854/#post-10621804
- Create a directory called "ArchitectTracker" in the the ED: Marketplace Connector plugins folder.
- Save the file called "load.py" into it.
- Start EDMC.
- When you land at a construction site the plugin will (after a few moments) list all the commodities and amounts required, provided and needed. You can switch between sites from the dropdown list in the upper left or the ">" button. The window will resize itself to fit all the commodities.
- The "Pref Market" column displays either the cheapest and closest market where that commidity has been found. The "$\Ly" button toggles between cheapest and closest martket.
- To display\update your fleet carrier cargo, open the "Carrier Management" in-game tool. The quantities will appear after a few moments (this can take a while and occasionaly display incorrect number). If you are also selling commodities from your fleet carrier, you will need to update this list as needed (sales are not tracked).
- Starship cargo will be displayed automatically.
- The shortfall column displays how much of a commodity you still need to aquire.
- Settings are available in the E:D Market Connector under File menu->Settings->ArchitectTracker tab. You can choose whioch columns to display, set the text displayed in the column header and other settings (see screenshot above).
- Rows are highlighted (see screenshots above) depending on where you are docked, rows are highlighted to indicate:
- Markets - market is selling the item and you have shortfall.
- Fleeet Carrier - site needs it and fleet carrier has some.
- Construction site - site needs it and starship has some.
- Closing the Architect Tracker window will stop the sites, commodities and markets from being tracked. This is handy if you're landing at markets but don't want the information to override your current closest\cheapest information.
- VR programs like Desktop+ can display this window inside the game for you. The ">" and "$\Ly" buttons are bound to the keys ">" and "p" respectively for Voice Attack users. Also "t" has been bound to the Architect Tracker button on the EDMC window so you can show\hide the Architect Tracker interface to stop tracking.
- 2025/04/12 : Added support for multiple construction sites. Sites are removed automaticly when they are completed.
- 2025/04/19 : Added feature - commodities required for construction are highlighted when a commodity market is opened.
- 2025/04/25 : Added fleet carrier cargo information - open the carrier management tool in-game to populate\refresh this list. NOTE: Tracks cargo transfers to/from FC but not market sales.
- 2025/04/30 : Added starship cargo tracking and dark theme colours.
- 2025/05/01 : Deleted unworking style , ad setings for beter use
- 2025/05/03 : Adaptation for new naming conwention for colonisation ship
- 2025/05/06 : Added dark\light mode, moved setting to EDMC setting tab, setting saved to EDMC settings and window auto resized to fit content.
- 2025/05/09 : Added delete station button to remove unwanted stations, added next station button to change list to next station in list (using Desktop+ in VR doesn't show the dropdown menu also button has a hot key assigned to it ">" so it can be used by voice attack), added alternating row colours back in.
- 2025/05/15 : Added preferred market tracking, added row highlighting, added information to settings tab and added column header renaming.
- 2025/05/29 : Added pause to tracking. Closing the Architect Tracker window will stop the commodities from being tracked.
- 2025/06/29 : [version 1.0] Added features - can now adjust transparent background, window opacity and stay on top of the main gui in the settings menu. Also added a verion number for bug reporting.
- 2025/08/05 : [version 1.1] Added feature - Selecting -All- in the station dropdown list will display materials from all construction sites in a single view.
- 2025/11/03 : [Version 1.2] Added previous site button to UI, owned fleet carrier no longer registers as market, remove version number from window title and improved start up to detect if landed on a market or carrier.