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Planetary Orbit

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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Jab  [author] 2 Dec, 2015 @ 12:23pm 
@Shadow try clearing your text panels.
Shadow 2 Dec, 2015 @ 5:49am 
Not really sure what i'm doing wrong, but i keep getting: Caught exception during execution of script: Input string was not in correct format. The ship i am testing it on is nothing but a cross structure with thrusters, cockpit, remote control, reactors and whatever is necessary for your script to run. I'd really like to make this work, as i'd like a permanent orbiting base floating around 5k from the planet surface.
artiedee 2 Dec, 2015 @ 3:06am 
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=558981481

Its a compass navigation script.

Jab, check out this script, the guy figured out how to do direction such as North, South. Would be amazing if your scripts could play together!

All Im asking is to take the same point of reference for North!
artiedee 2 Dec, 2015 @ 2:58am 
thank you!
Jab  [author] 1 Dec, 2015 @ 10:02pm 
@artiedee I was thinking about adding that to the settings.
artiedee 1 Dec, 2015 @ 5:15am 
you could take -y as north(up) that will play together with the auto-hover script that automatically adjusts the ship to gravity vector...
artiedee 1 Dec, 2015 @ 5:14am 
Would be cool if you could control which direction u are orbiting like north to south, or east to west.
Bone Jester 27 Nov, 2015 @ 3:34am 
ha spent 4 hours sunday placing gps coords for this purpose, todasy founf your script ..lol awsum :)
Jab  [author] 26 Nov, 2015 @ 10:33pm 
Updated. Brought memory down to one unit. Added randomness seting, and waypoint radius.
Jab  [author] 26 Nov, 2015 @ 8:32pm 
Updated. Added a Text Panel for settings. Call it "OrbitSettings" in the Control Panel. The script *Should* generate the settings.

Working on Random offsets as well as needing only one text screen for memory.