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Planetary Orbit

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Description

Orbit Script by Jab (40BlocksUnder)

This script was created by curiosity, and may be updated for optimizations and features.

The purpose of this script is to provide a way to have small / large ships orbit a planetary body (Or something else) to defend, or just ride along and enjoy the scenary.

Instructions:
I recommend a lot of Gryoscopes and a healthy power source (Solar Panels) and a decent thruster configuration.

The script should generate the settings in OrbitSettings Text Panel when ran. From there, you can modify the point distance, randomness, and planetary position in there, along with future settings.

Before you setup a timer to 1-5 seconds to run the script, you can pass the argument 'reset', and it should reset the waypoint and polar coordinates.

BLOCKS NEEDED:
1 Remote Control Block - Default Settings are Okay.
1 Antenna Block - I would prefer to have the broadcast distance brought down to <= 100 meters.
2 Text Panels. Case Sensitive. names need to be "OrbitSettings", and "memory".

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24 Jun, 2016 @ 1:24pm

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Suzuki Hiakura 14 Feb, 2022 @ 7:25am

Am unsure, but I may have used this script in some orbital constructions... forget if it was this or another, but did also mix other scripts with the one I used such as an auto docking script capable of docking to a moving station. Was quite elaborate and liked it a lot. Will have to check again but their are alternatives if this one doesnt work. Believe this was the first I used though, with recent updates and my not having played in so long, unsure if it still works.

Jab [author] 9 Feb, 2022 @ 10:27am

@ChickenKing Hello,

It's probably best to rewrite it at this point. This is so old.

ChickenKing 9 Feb, 2022 @ 10:25am

Was hoping this worked with the real orbits mod but since it doesn't seem to be maintained I doubt it would work in the first place, not going to try it till an update if that's even possible at this point