zBridge Terminal v5.62

zBridge Terminal (zBT) makes your Freighter Bridge Terminal more useful by adding functionality that you have always wanted.

Why do you have to leave the bridge after warping to a new system just to do a planetary scan? Who knows, but now you no longer have to. zBT adds the Planetary Scan function to the center of the bridge terminal (see pic). This one addition will likely be very popular.

Another function that is popular with ship hunters has been added to the bridge terminal. That lone non-functional terminal next to the NPC Navigator is brought to life with zBT. Now you can upgrade or scrap your current starship - just like you were on a space station. Activating the terminal with the rotating blue holographic fighter brings up the Starship Outfitter function.

zBT is not all about functionality though. The vanilla bridge terminal is pretty boring to look at and the scanner in the freighter base scan room is not much better. zBT takes the orbiting planets from the scan room display, seriously improves the physics of the simulated orbiting planets and moons, and adds them to the original stellar display of the vanilla bridge terminal. Planets close to the star and moons closer to their planet now orbit more quickly than this further away. Planets closer to the star, where it is likely too hot for life to flourish, are colored red. Planets in the habitable zone, where conditions are optimal for lush planets, are colored green. Planets in the far reaches of the system, where it likely too cold for flourishing life, are colored blue.

For those into details, unlike the scan room display, the rotational angular momentum vectors of the individual planets and star, as well as the orbital angular momentum vector of the moons, are inertial - no longer precessing as the planet orbits the star. Generally, the moon's orbital angular momentum vector is parallel to the spin angular momentum vector of the planet it orbits. Similarly, the orbital angular momentum vectors of the planets is parallel to the spin angular momentum vector of the central star.

Sure these details are minutia that most players would not notice, but zBT is for you, not them.

zBT includes two new BridgeTerminals: one for system freighters and one for pirate freighters.

Starship Outfitting note: You can change the current active starship from the Fleet Management terminal by moving it to cold storage and then restoring it to active duty. You'll need to have an empty cold storage slot to do this. With some practice, you should quickly become adept at switching the currently active ship without leaving the bridge.

This mod is of limited scope, replacing/enhancing only the bridge terminal. This mod is not compatible with any other mods that replace these files. The mod that loads last is the one you will see in effect. The zBridge Terminal folder should be placed in your No Man’s Sky\GAMEDATA\MODS folder along with all of your other mods.

This mod would not be possible without the use of the fabulous MBINcompiler.

I hope you find this mod useful and enjoy it.
Cheers, JMZ