What kind of thing a body is. Most values are self-explanatory; the
three that aren't:
'surface_installation': a structure genuinely built on a parent
body's own surface (a landing-zone city, a ground-based prison, a
mining outpost) — as opposed to 'station', which orbits or floats
free. This matters for more than labelling: sitting at/near the
parent's own real radius is the DEFINITION of correct for this type,
not a containment problem — findBodiesInsideParent/
findBodiesInsideSiblings both exclude it for exactly that reason (see
their own comments). Rendered as a small surface marker, not a
floating torus, so it doesn't visually read as an orbiting structure
it isn't.
'jump_point': a travel gateway between systems — e.g. a wormhole or
a game's fast-travel jump point. Rendered distinctly from an ordinary
station: it's a hole between systems, not a structure.
'nav_point': a named navigation marker with no physical structure of
its own — visually the least substantial type, since it isn't a
"thing" at all, just a labelled point in space.
What kind of thing a body is. Most values are self-explanatory; the three that aren't:
'surface_installation': a structure genuinely built on a parent body's own surface (a landing-zone city, a ground-based prison, a mining outpost) — as opposed to'station', which orbits or floats free. This matters for more than labelling: sitting at/near the parent's own real radius is the DEFINITION of correct for this type, not a containment problem — findBodiesInsideParent/ findBodiesInsideSiblings both exclude it for exactly that reason (see their own comments). Rendered as a small surface marker, not a floating torus, so it doesn't visually read as an orbiting structure it isn't.'jump_point': a travel gateway between systems — e.g. a wormhole or a game's fast-travel jump point. Rendered distinctly from an ordinary station: it's a hole between systems, not a structure.'nav_point': a named navigation marker with no physical structure of its own — visually the least substantial type, since it isn't a "thing" at all, just a labelled point in space.