@dfares/hexgen

This package contains functions for determining various properties of Dark Forest objects based on their ID in hex. You could think of this package like procedural generation for Ethereum addresses.

Note: This package might go away when objects become classes that contain a lot of these helpers as instance methods.

Installation

You can install this package using npm or yarn by running:

npm install --save @dfares/hexgen

yarn add @dfares/hexgen

When using this in a plugin, you might want to load it with skypack

import * as hexgen from 'http://cdn.skypack.dev/@dfares/hexgen';

Table of contents

Functions

• bonusFromHex
• getBytesFromHex
• planetHasBonus

Functions

bonusFromHex

▸ bonusFromHex(hex): PlanetBonus

Extracts the bonuses of a planet given its LocationID.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | | :---- | :----------- | :---------------------- | | hex | LocationId | LocationID of a planet. |

Returns

PlanetBonus

getBytesFromHex

▸ getBytesFromHex(hexStr, startByte, endByte): BigInteger

The core method for extracting planet details from a LocationID.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | | :---------- | :------- | :------------------------------------------------------- | | hexStr | string | LocationID of a planet. | | startByte | number | The first byte to include in the result. | | endByte | number | The byte after the last byte to include in the result. |

Returns

BigInteger

planetHasBonus

▸ planetHasBonus(planet?): boolean

Checks if the LocationID of the planet indicates any bonuses.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | | :-------- | :------- | :--------------------------- | | planet? | Planet | Planet to check for bonuses. |

Returns

boolean