https://github.com/cowboy/ed-trade-helper

Elite: Dangerous Trade Helper
https://github.com/cowboy/ed-trade-helper

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Elite: Dangerous Trade Helper

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cowboy/ed-trade-helper
• Owner: cowboy
• Created: 2014-11-25T14:19:42.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-12-20T00:42:38.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T22:47:00.669Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 448 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Elite: Dangerous Trade Helper

Watch screenshots directory for Commodities Market images, stitching together same-market images into a single image with the same filename as the station.

## Future goals

* Support other screen resolutions than 3440x1440 and 1900x1200 (patches welcome!)

* Make OCR actually work?

## Dependencies

* [Elite: Dangerous](http://www.elitedangerous.com/) (duh)

* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

* [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads)

* [vagrant-exec](https://github.com/p0deje/vagrant-exec)

* [GitHub Windows](https://windows.github.com/) or [Git](http://msysgit.github.io/)

* If you plan on editing files, an editor that supports Unix line endings (lf)

## Setup

1. Fork this repo to your GitHub account

  * Create a free GitHub account and click the "fork" button in the top right of this page.

1. Clone your fork

  * In the GitHub Windows client, click the + in the top right and clone ed-trade-helper.

1. Open in Git Shell

  * In the GitHub Windows client, right-click ed-trade-helper on the left, Open in Git Shell.

1. Initialize vagrant

  * Type `vagrant up`.

  * You should see mostly green with some red text, and at the end it should say "PLAY RECAP" followed by "ok=5 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0"

  * If there are failures, you can `vagrant destroy -f` and then `vagrant up` again.

(Or if you know Git, you can do the first few steps however you'd like)

## Usage

Either:

* Create a Windows Shortcut with the target `powershell -noexit -executionpolicy bypass "& "C:\path\to\ed-trade-helper\start-process.ps1"` and run it.

* Open up a Git Shell and run `vagrant exec process [options]`

* Pre-existing screenshots are ignored unless the `-f` option is used.

* The script will wait in a loop for new images to be added unless the `-o` option is used.

* New screenshots will be processed, in-order.

* Stitched images will be saved in the `output` subdirectory of the cloned repository.

## Commodities Market Screenshot Instructions

* Don't take screenshots while the ship is moving.

* The left panel should NOT be highlighted while taking a screenshot. Hover over the right "item details" panel to de-highlight the left panel. If you place the mouse cursor just to the left of the scroll bar, it will scroll the market without highlighting it.

* The first screenshot should be taken while the market is scrolled all the way to the top.

* Subsequent screenshots should be scrolled down no more than 4 ticks on the mousewheel. If there is no overlap between screenshots, stitching will fail.

* After 1 minute, the last market screenshot is invalidated, so don't take longer than 1 minute between screenshots for the same market.

* If the OCR incorrectly detects the station name, wait until all related screenshots have been processed, and then edit the name of the generated image to be "System Name - Station Name.png". The matching algorithm should correct the OCR for subsequent screenshots for the same station.