Neutron Dancer makes neutron jumping easier by letting you plot any of a variety of Spansh (and some non-Spansh) routes, including the Galaxy route, directly within EDMC; tracking progress along the route; and copying the next waypoint into your clipboard with a single click. It also directly supports most of the other Spansh routes and can work for almost any route by importing a CSV of the jumps.
- Use Spansh's sophisticated Galaxy Plotter directly from EDMC without having to manually export, copy and paste ship builds.
- Wide range of plotters:
- Spansh: Galaxy Plotter, Neutron Plotter, Road to Riches, Expressway to Exomastery, Trade Planner, Tourist Route, and Fleet Carrier Route
- Indestinate: IndyHost Neutron Plotter
- Local: Fully Local Neutron Plotter, Boxel Surveyor
- Automatic insertion of the next system to the paste buffer on system arrival, opening galaxy map, both or neither.
- Button to copy system name into your paste buffer.
- Remembers your route, progress, ships, loadouts, and destinations across sessions.
- Refuel locations and Neutron stars are highlighted.
- System name auto-completion.
- CSV import supports almost any route file or route type.
- Route export makes it easy to save a route for later reuse.
- Fleet carrier support includes jump countdown and cooldown tracking and notifications.
- Tracks and reports statistics including jumps and distance per hour.
- Support for:
- Modern Overlay for in game display of routes and countdown timers.
- Chat commands (
!nd next,!nd previous,!nd copy) - Hotkeys for next waypoint, previous waypoint, and copy to clipboard operations.
- Fully EDMC theme compliant.
- API for integration with other plugins such as Route Scoop.
- Download and unzip the latest
EDMC-NeutronDancer.zipfrom GitHub. - Open your EDMC plugins folder (in EDMC settings, select "Plugins" tab, click the "Open" button).
- Create a folder inside the plugins folder and call it whatever you want, EDMC-NeutronDancer for instance.
- Copy the unzipped files into this folder.
- Restart EDMC.
By default Neutron Dancer starts in a minimized mode in order to be as unobtrusive as possible when not in use. To plot a route click do the neutron dance to open the route plotting form.
Neutron Dancer supports direct route creation for:
- The sophisticated Spansh Galaxy Plotter
- The simpler Spansh Neutron Plotter
- Indestinate's (IndyHost) Neutron Plotter
- Local Neutron Plotter
- Road to Riches
- Expressway to Exomastery
- Trade Planner
- Tourist Route
- Fleet Carrier Route
- Boxel Surveyor
To plot a route select the route type from the dropdown menu, enter the required details and click Calculate.
Input fields have mouseover tooltips with details of their meaning and many have right-click context menus to autofill details. The ? button links to a detailed help file.
Once your route is plotted, the next waypoint is shown on the System Name button — click it to copy that waypoint to your clipboard. In Elite Dangerous bring up the Galaxy Map, paste in the waypoint, and click Plot route.
If for some reason your clipboard is empty or contains other stuff that you copied yourself, click the System Name button again to re-copy the waypoint.
The progress bar has a Tooltip that provides the number of jumps remaining and distance remaining if those values are known.
The Show route button will open a window showing progress and the details of the plotted route. The current waypoint is hightlighted and progress includes waypoints completed and remaining, distance completed and remaining, jumps and lightyears per hour. For each jump the details include waypoints, distance traveled and remaining, fuel used and remaining, tritium used and remaining, whether to refueld and whether a star is a neutron star or scoopable depending on the type of route being followed.
Neutron Dancer is very flexible about CSV formats. It requires a column called "System Name" or "system" and will accept any other columns provided. If there are columns for remaining distance or number of jumps it will use those to calculate those values. If there is a column for refueling it will use that too.
The Export route button will open a file dialog allowing you to save the current route as a CSV.
This requires the EDMC Modern Overlay to be installed, older overlays aren't supported.
Three overlays are available.
- Default displays the next jump in the current route and other details in the ship main window
- Galaxy Map replaces the default frame when in the Galaxy Map and displays just the jump destination
- Carrier displays carrier jump and cooldown timers
Each can be individually enabled and frame size, color, position, background, text alignment etc. are all configurable.
The Default frame can be further customized with:
- A progress bar showing route progress
- A customizable route details string that can display a wide variety of route information
This enables management of Neutron Dancer without tabbing out of the game. Simply bring up a chat window and type in !nd and a command. Supported commands are:
next– move to the next waypointprevious(or justprev) – move to the previous waypointcopy– re-copy the next waypoint into the past buffer
If you install the EDMC Hotkeys plugin you can define hotkeys for the next, previous and copy commands.
If you close EDMC, the plugin will save your progress. The next time you run EDMC, it will continue from where you left off and even catch up any progress made while EDMC was inactive.
It also saves ship details and source and destination systems for easy entry.
This is notoriously variable and problematic. Neutron Dancer tries to find wl-copy, xsel and xclip based on the current session. If it doesn't find anything appropriate it runs all of them that exist. If it can't find any of them it falls back to using the Tk native method.
If you have problems with waypoints not being put into the clipboard you can override all of this by setting an environment variable EDMC_CLIPBOARD_CLI to the command you wish to use before running EDMC. e.g.
export EDMC_CLIPBOARD_CLI="/usr/local/random/xsel --clipboard --input"
/usr/bin/python EDMarketConnector.pyNote, if you're running Flatpak and still having problems even with the environment variable set, check that EDMC is allowed to run the command you're referencing and allowed to follow any symlinks.
Integrates with the Route Scoop plugin so that routes are displayed in it.
The biggest thank you must go to CMDR Spansh for the amazing Spansh Route Planners.
Also thank you to Indestinate for his superfast Neutron Plotter.
This code is based on the original Spansh router by CMDR Kiel42, RadarCZ's, and Norohind's forks.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or find any bugs by submitting an issue. I can also be found on the Elite Dangerous Community Developers edmc-plugins discord channel.
If you like Neutron Dancer I don't need a coffee, I live in Seattle so I'm plenty caffeinated already, but please give it a ⭐ and consider donating to CMDR Spansh's patreon.
Fly dangerous! o7