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@bahuckel bahuckel released this 05 Oct 06:51
v1.2.12
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A journal-linked exobiology companion for Elite Dangerous. It reads your local journal, merges scans and organic signals, and predicts the candidate species on a body from FSS/DSS telemetry alone — with payout ranges, first-footfall tracking, a system map, a customisable HUD and a species encyclopedia.

This release is the single-file portable build. For the unpacked program folder plus the two console builds, see v1.2.12-zip — same version, same code.

Download EDExoCompare.exe and run it. Nothing is installed.

The right species shown on far more bodies (Recepta, Brain Trees, Anemone, Sinuous Tubers, Stratum and more, measured genus by genus), a galaxy map redrawn as a 3D Milky Way with game-style menus and a NavRoute star finder, HUD styles, and a download almost 100 MB smaller.

What's new

  1. Predictions — every genus measured against bodies whose species the codex confirms (EDSM + EDAstro), and fixed where the right one was not shown after a DSS
    • a) Recepta: each species now lists the planets and air it has really been found on. The right one was missing on 566 of 16,590 confirmed bodies; now on none.
    • b) Brain Trees grow on thin atmospheres too (a rule from 1.0.0 said airless only), and reach 1,250 ly from a Guardian site: missing on 381 of 4,142 confirmed bodies, now on 5.
    • c) Anemone: any star in the system can set the colour, not only the main one (measured for the first time with EDAstro's species-level codex): missing on 110 of 3,376, now on 14.
    • d) Sinuous Tubers are read region by region (Prasinum is a high-metal species in Empyrean Straits and a rocky one in Inner Scutum-Centaurus), and Prasinum and Roseum list the atmospheres they were found on: missing on 28 of 2,709, now on 2.
    • e) A host-star rule built on thin data no longer hides 260 confirmed finds in 18 species (Stratum frigus round M dwarfs, Fonticulua digitos round Y dwarfs, Tussock divisa round neutron stars…). Stratum, Fonticulua, Tussock, Osseus, Concha, Frutexa, Aleoida, Cactoida, Tubus, Fungoida and Electricae now miss the right species on 0.3 % of confirmed bodies or less; Fumerola, Bark Mounds and Amphora on none.
    • f) Rare Bacteria (verrata, scopulum, nebulus) are no longer hidden on the bodies that have the volcanism or air they need; a species logged in a region at least once is not marked down there.
    • g) Crystalline Shards are listed only when every condition is known and met.
    • h) Why this chance: a strip on each candidate card comparing this body with where the species has been found.
    • i) Concha labiata or renibus leads by gravity when both are shown (the right one first on 96 % of confirmed Concha bodies, was 93 %).
    • j) From three candidates up, the list shows as rows.
  2. Galaxy map
    • a) The Milky Way is drawn, in 3D: soft clouds above and below a faint drawing on the plane (no more photograph). Layers → Milky Way turns it off and on.
    • b) Menus in the game's manner: icon tabs, menu rows with help, search at the top; the map follows your ship.
    • c) NavRoute star finder: the star types along every route you plot, with filters and a Check EDSM button; Previous / Next for where you have been and the plotted route; the route's unvisited systems as a layer; new systems appear without a reload.
    • d) Plan: the shortest order (up to 20 stops) and Back to start. "Your nearest waiting" is in the Targets menu.
    • e) The galaxy index is a separate download the map offers (EDAstro data, about 255 MB), so the app itself is smaller.
  3. HUD
    • a) HUD type: Original, Title Background or Elite Style (Turn or Slant).
    • b) The radar draws a ring round each sample at its genus's sample distance, so you see where not to sample.
  4. The look
    • a) Candidate cards: one genus takes the whole width with its species side by side; the chance bar in the accent colour.
    • b) Foldable legends on both maps; Options grouped under headings; ◆ first discovery, ⬢ first footfall.
    • c) Photos fill wide screens, the lightbox at 2,048 px; long hovers open with a tap; bigger touch targets on phones; Boxel works on a phone.
  5. Streamer view mirrors the app's settings, opens from the launcher, and takes cmdr, zoom and bg options.
  6. [CODEX FIRST] also counts what an EDDN collector running on the same PC has seen.
  7. Eleven new species photos of our own (two of Roseum Bioluminescent Anemone, in its two shapes); ED-DSN's photo of a species is retired as soon as we have one (17 more this release).

Fixes

  1. An Anemone after a DSS showed as "Unknown Luteolum Anemone" with no species: the game names the genus after its first species.
  2. Codex-first notices leave the bell when the candidate leaves the body.
  3. A profile's pressure shows in atmospheres, not "0.00 atm".
  4. LAN clients get their own channel from the first frame.
  5. Galaxy map Filter: a Helium-rich gas giant is never counted as a Helium gas giant, and planet types the index cannot hold (Class I–V and Helium gas giants) are no longer offered.

Faster and smaller

  1. The download is almost 100 MB smaller (241.6 → 147.1 MB): the galaxy index is downloaded separately, only if you open the map's systems.
  2. My discoveries draws only the rows in view (no 300-row cap); the Encyclopedia builds species cards as they come near the screen.

Note: the journals are read again once at the first start (a few seconds), for the visited-systems list.

Where your data lives

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ED Exo Compare\ — settings, your LAN key, your EDSM credentials if you add them, the species you have scanned on foot, your Fix corrections, the journal folder you chose, your HUD layout, where your windows were, the systems you looked up on Spansh (kept 30 days), the shared exomastery folder, and the prediction caches. Nothing of yours is kept in the program folder, so replacing it on an update loses nothing. On Linux the same lives in ~/.config/edexo-compare. Backups go only where you point the Backups tile.

Your journals are read, never copied out. Uploads to EDSM, Canonn and EDDN happen only if you turn them on yourself. Looking a system up sends only its name or number to Spansh.

Windows will say the publisher is unrecognised. The executable is not code-signed, so SmartScreen asks first: "More info" → "Run anyway".

Licence

Code: MIT. Data: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (credit, no commercial use, share alike; part of it is derived from EDAstro) — see data/LICENSE-DATA.txt. The species photographs are Elite Dangerous screenshots: Frontier's game art, under Frontier's terms — NOTICE.md names every contributor and says which images are borrowed from the ED-DSN community. The list of Frontier-populated systems and looked-up systems come from Spansh.

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