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Ship Inspector v1.5

This script will run a full diagnostic on your ship and will output important information for you to examine. It calculates the ships acceleration in all directions, time to max speed, cargo capacity, maximum ammo that could be stored, ship dimensions, number of timer blocks, assemblers, refineries, etc. The output is also formatted and aligned so you can copy and paste it into your steam workshop description. However in game there is no alignment for text on text panels [frown]

This is only the beginning of whats possible to be calculated. I still want to include Gyro acceleration, but I dont know where to find or calculate this.

V1.5 Uploaded:
- Added Ship Dimensions in both number of blocks and metric
- Added more cargo capacity information
- Added more blocks to be listed under Utility

Currently Working on:
- Power Statistics for Reactors, Batteries, Solar panels
- Gyro Statistics

Planned
- Turret Configurations for large ships
- Simulated 'Necessary' Power required to operate ship

This is what the script spitted out when I copied it from my text panel:

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SPECIFICATIONS


GENERAL

Dimensions:
Length: 30 Blocks
Width: 21 Blocks
Height: 8 Blocks

Length: 15 Meters
Width: 10.5 Meters
Height: 4 Meters


THRUST

Configuration:
Thrusters: 31
Forward: 5
Backward: 2
Left: 2
Right: 2
Up: 12
Down: 8

Potential Force Configuration:
Total Net Force: 2448 kN
Forward: 1296 kN
Backward: 864 kN
Left: 24 kN
Right: 24 kN
Up: 144 kN
Down: 96 kN

Potential Force Allocation:
Forward: 52.94 %
Backward: 35.29 %
Left: 0.98 %
Right: 0.98 %
Up: 5.88 %
Down: 3.92 %


CARGO

General:
Cargo Containers: 22
Connectors: 1

Storage Capacity:
Cargo Containers: 10625 L
Connectors: 1152 L
Other: 560 L
Total Storage Available: 12337 L

Ammo Capacity:
Gun Ammo Capacity: 771 Boxes
Gun Ammo: 19275 Rounds


POWER

Reactors: 2
Batteries: 0
Solar Panels: 0
Reactor Power: UNIMPLEMENTED
Battery Power: UNIMPLEMENTED
Solar Power: UNIMPLEMENTED
Total Power: UNIMPLEMENTED


PERFORMANCE

Acceleration:
Forward: 28.83 m/s2
Backward: 19.22 m/s2
Left: 0.53 m/s2
Right: 0.53 m/s2
Up: 3.2 m/s2
Down: 2.14 m/s2

0 to Max Speed (Forward): 3.64 seconds


UTILITY

Gyroscopes: 10
Timer Blocks: 15
Programming Blocks: 18
Sensors: 0
Cameras: 0
Remote Controls: 0
Antennas: 4
Sound Blocks: 0
Beacons: 0
Refineries: 0
Assemblers: 0
Collectors: 0
Ore Detectors: 0
Gravity Generators: 0
Button Panels: 0
Medical Bays: 0
Pistons: 0
Rotors: 0

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As you can see, you get quite a bit of information out of your ships with this, which gives you more power to make an educated decision to change something or to improve your design.



INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE:

You need two things for this:

1) A text panel / lcd display
2) Programming block to run this code

You will need to also modify two static variables at the top of the code:
1) change the value of MASS to the mass of your ship in kg (Simply copy the value)
2) change the value of TEXTBLOCKNAME to the name of your text panel on your ship (This will be the source where the script spits out this information)



KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
1) Formatting ingame is non existent - the characters have variable width, so it is not possible to align text properly in text panel. You can still paste this into notepad and it will come out properly aligned however.
2) Not possible to get custom weapons
3) No gyro acceleration for (yaw, pitch, roll) provided - I want to include this but havn't figured out how.
4) Cargo Capacity will only be properly calculated if the script is run in Survival. Creative changes cargo capacity of all blocks so you will get back an erroneous number.


If you spot any other bugs or ideas for things to include, feel free to share this.
Feel free to modify this script for your own ideas or to improve upon it [smile]