Data used by EVEShip.fit

To have the best experience possible, we convert the EVE SDE dataset into a format that is as small as possible and readable as fast as possible.

For this we use Google's Protobuf, and we strip out a lot of fields we don't actually need.

Protobuf definition

In this folder is a tool (convert.py), which converts the YAML files from the SDE into Protobuf (v2) binary files.

In esf.proto is the Protobuf definition. This is exported to Python and Javascript with the following commands:

protoc --python_out=. esf.proto
web/node_modules/.bin/pbjs -t static-module -w es6 -o esf_pb2.js esf.proto --no-create --no-encode --no-verify --no-convert --no-delimited --no-typeurl --no-beautify --no-comments --no-service

Converting

Download the latest EVE SDE from their website.

Now run the tool:

python convert.py <path to fsd folder inside the sde>

This will take a while to generate the protobuf files, but they will be outputed in the dist folder.