.iff_xor EQUB &00 \ Index 0: Clean = %00000000 EQUB &00 \ Index 1: Station tracked = %00000000 EQUB &0F \ Index 2: Debris = %00001111 \EQUB &FF \ Index 3: Missile = %11111111 \ \EQUB &F0 \ Index 4: Offender/fugitive = %11110000Name: iff_xor [Show more] Type: Variable Category: Dashboard Summary: The EOR value for different types of ship in the I.F.F. system for creating striped sticks in the scanner Deep dive: The I.F.F. systemContext: See this variable in context in the source code References: This variable is used as follows: * SCAN uses iff_xor
These are the EOR values for the I.F.F. system, which shows ships on the scanner in the following colours, depending on the type index for this ship (as returned by the iff_index routine). The EOR values determine whether the stick is striped. The colours for the normal dashboard palette are: Index Dot colour Stick colour(s) Ship types ----- ---------- --------------- ---------- 0 Green Green Clean 1 Yellow Yellow Station tracked 2 Green Green and yellow Debris 3 Yellow Yellow and red Missile 4 Green Green and red Offender/fugitive The colours for the escape pod dashboard palette are: Index Dot colour Stick colour(s) Ship types ----- ---------- --------------- ---------- 0 Cyan Cyan Clean 1 White White Station tracked 2 Cyan Cyan and white Debris 3 White White and red Missile 4 Cyan Cyan and red Offender/fugitive The EOR values have the following effect on the colour of the stick: %00000000 Stick is a solid colour, in the base colour %00001111 Stick is striped, in the base colour and base colour EOR %01 %11110000 Stick is striped, in the base colour and base colour EOR %10 %11111111 Stick is striped, in the base colour and base colour EOR %11 Taking the example of debris, the base colour from iff_base+2 is &FF, which is %11111111, or a four-pixel byte of colour %11, or colour 3 in mode 5, or green/cyan (green for the normal palette, cyan in the escape pod palette). The EOR value from iff_xor+2 is &0F, which is %00001111, or a four-pixel byte of %01 values. Applying this EOR to the base colour (%11) gives: %11 EOR %01 = %10 = 2 and colour 2 in mode 5 is yellow/white (yellow for the normal palette, white in the escape pod palette). So the stick colour for debris when we have an I.F.F. system fitted is: Green/cyan (the base colour) striped with yellow/white (the colour after applying the EOR value) If there is no I.F.F. system fitted, the index is 0 and the EOR value is 0, which doesn't affect the default colour. The last two entries are the same as the first two entries in iff_base, which is the next variable, so they are commented out here to save two bytes.