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Braking Distance Display

You know this idea of braking distance is actually really good, I like it!

@Sineme Looks like brake thrust is greater when ship velocity exceeds it's maxVelocity (i.e. when boost is active). Aprox. by 1.7 (may depend on ship mass).

Just to be absolutely sure I ran a few tests with only your mod active on a new save - I used Creative to build but installed no subsystems or anything.

At 170% engineer workforce, a deceleration rate of 48.4m/s2, and a boosted speed of 3934m/s I got an estimated 159.92km stopping distance but stopped in about 34km.

I also tested the workforce by taking the same ship and cutting down to 100% workforce. Deceleration still 48.4m/s2, boosted speed was 2316m/s, mod said I'd need 55.43km to stop and I stopped in a bit under 13km.

I do think the low brake force is contributing though - I slapped on a huge inertial dampener and tested again and got a much better result. At a speed of 2315m/s and a deceleration rate of 254.4m/s2, the mod said I'd need 10.54km to stop and I stopped in about 9km. Still not *exact* but close enough that I'd never notice outside of specifically testing things.

I tested velocity bypass system and increased workforce at 8k m/s, 4k m/s and 1k m/s with a brake thrust of 450 m/s² in all cases the braking distance was as (in)accurate as I expected it to be (i.e. off by a few km) but not 140km like in your case. Maybe it is inaccurate due to the low decceleration, I will have to test that later. Also the engineers didn't make a difference in decceleration but I wasn't sure when I replied to you.

Since I can't edit my comment I wanted to add on, does a higher engineer workforce also impact acceleration/deceleration or just max speed?

I use a number of mods but nothing that touches velocity/acceleration/deceleration. I'm also not using any speed-adjusting systems, including the Velocity Security Control Bypass.

My ship has been edited a bit since last night but I did another test. I have engineers at 194% workforce, and with a velocity of 4216m/s (boosted to max) and a deceleration of 50.4m/s2 listed in the build menu, this mod claim a braking distance of 176.36km. Actual braking distance was closer to 38km.

Without boosting I had a velocity of 1053m/s (which fits the build menu's max velocity of 542m/s and my engineers at 194%), deceleration still 50.4m/s2, and the mod showed a braking distance of 11km when I braked in about 8km. So it looks like it gets dramatically worse while boosting or traveling at higher speeds.

@Kirona, wow, I totally missed adding the description.
150km sounds like a lot. I haven't tested the mod with Velocity Security Control Bypass Systems. What was your velocity and what is your decceleration? Are you using mods that increase velocity/accelleration/decceleration or add systems that do? Or were you using vanilla Systems that alter these values? Do you have more Engineers, i.e. >100% efficiency?

I'm getting some seriously inaccurate distance values. A test I did just now displayed a braking distance of over 150km, but I actually came to a stop in about 35km. The visual warnings also don't have a working text description, it's just BrakingDistanceDisplay3 or BrakingDistanceDisplay5.

The issue does not occur for me anymore. So my find was correct and my modconfig was the problem.

I will test it later but I think the issue was more with how I configured the modconfig.lua and how it was used. As you can see in the path I posted it was using \ and / and combining both is not a good idea. I think this might be a bug in Avorions path validation code as I didn't put the paths manually but it combined the two formats by itself.
Now the mod is loaded from //G//Steam//steamapps//workshop//content//445220//2615158540 (I guess the // are for escaping purposes) so only / is used.