Introduction

Mostly Accurate Planning Software (MAPS) is a collection of kOS scripts designed to help the typical player play the game without getting too deep in some of the more fiddly bits.

Sounds familiar...

It was heavily inspired by RAMP and shares much of its philosophy, and (at least at first) much of its code as well.

RAMP focuses on safe, modular, reusable, educational, and ethical code. I like the naming style, I like the flat control flow, I like all of these things.

I also want some additional rigor. I need to develop a style guide for KerboScript that covers as many details as I can. The language itself is almost Perlish in its flexibility which is great for tinkering and hell on maintainability.

Example style guide topics:

• All code shall be written in uppercase.
• Code shall be terse yet readable.
• Documentation shall reside in markdown files, with minimal comments in the code due to size constraints.
• The use of aliases (i.e., HEADING in place of SHIP:HEADING or MUN in place of BODY("Mun")) shall be kept to a minimum.
• Function declarations will not include DECLARE, LOCAL, or GLOBAL.
• Function calls shall have parentheses, even when they have no arguments.
• All if and for expressions shall wrap their blocks in curly braces.
• Enable (Config:SAFE)[https://ksp-kos.github.io/KOS/structures/misc/config.html#attribute:CONFIG:SAFE].
• Use @LAZYGLOBAL OFF. in all top-level scripts.

Directory layout

The majority of MAPS scripts can be found in the ./maps directory. Boot scripts are kept in the ./boot directory, while the ./start directory is for mission scripts.

TODO: Add support for writing to ./tmp on vessels.

Installation

From the git checkout, it should be as easy as:

$ git archive HEAD | (cd ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Kerbal\ Space\ Program/Ships/Script && tar xvf -)