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Whip, are you going to update this script with the advancements you've made with your artificial horizon script?

@McBain - when you open the terminal for the programmable block you want to use, click the edit button, then on the bottom click the browse workshop button. A list of your scripts should pop up and you can double click the one you want. Click check code button, then remember&exit button.. done!

Sorry guys, noob question. Where can I find the actual script code (Step 1: "Make a program block and put this code in it")? I subscribed in the Workshop but I can't find the code anywhere.
... I feel stupid...

This is quality work. I like the multi-colored symbols. I've been using another for a long time and while it matches the rest of my industrial looking displays- I can't help but think a real HUD would make things visually simple for ease of understanding.

I look forward to the magnitude-less version as it's the style I've been using up until this point.

Awesome! Thank you! :D I also use your artificial horizon mod, so I'm very excited by this!

@Caffeinix:
Upon playing around with the idea, I've decided to implement your suggestion :P

The magnitude-less vector is much more useful for my artificial horizon, so I have already implemented it there. I figured I might as well implement it in this one as well. I will update it soon.

@o RawRaSauRus o:
Yes, on the timer there is a check box to turn off the timer noise. See time stamp 2:18 in my video :)

Need Help it all works fine, apart from the sound the timer block is making when the prommgram is running is there a way to turn that off ? its like its running the code so fast i just have a high pitch sound that seems tobe coming from the timer

@Caffeinix:
"Also, wouldn't increasing the max speed make the problem worse?"
Yes, I misspoke.

However, I am not interested in discarding information about magnitude. I might go back and add a toggleable function. Depends on how much work it is.

@Whiplash141 (cont'd): To give a concrete example: with your script, if I am moving forwards at 5 m/s and am drifting to the right at 5 m/s, I believe your script will display the indicator 1/20 of the way to the edge of the display, quite near the center (assuming a max speed of 100 m/s). However, since my velocity vector is 45 degrees away from the horizontal, I would prefer to see the indicator halfway to the edge of the display. It would look the same if my velocity were 50 m/s forward and 50 m/s to the right (so it does discard information about the magnitude).

Again, I'm not suggesting that your way is "wrong", just that it differs from my expectations based on other such displays, and I'd love to have the option. And if I'm missing something here, please let me know.

Also, wouldn't increasing the max speed make the problem worse? The deflection of a small sideways velocity would be even less.

@Whiplash141: I think we're talking past each other a bit. You are correct in that you're projecting the 3D vector onto a 2D display, which preserves information about the vector magnitude. That's totally reasonable for many, but not all, applications. Nav vector displays in, e.g., Kerbal Space Program intentionally discard the information about the vector magnitude in favor of displaying the angle such that the deflection of the indicator from the center of the display is equal to the angle to the velocity vector, regardless of magnitude.

Ahh... I might hardcode a method to automatically set that based off of the selected grid size so that people dont have any issues :) Glad you got it working though!

Just found the issue... i didnt put the font to 0.4, because i thought it was already the default xD. sorry!

@Ankhrodium:
In the video around the 2:41 you can see the debuging output of the program. Is the program reporting any errors? If so, please take a screenshot and leave a link here :)

Yes i did everything. i still see only grey dots.

ownership of all assciated blocks on ships designate whether or not the timer has access to control them. any script on a loop generally requires a hard loop via. timer block. if your screens dont have your ownership tag it has not refference part.

@Ankhrodium:
Also check ownership on all your blocks.

@Ankhrodium:
Have you started the timer?
Also sometimes LCDs bug out and you need to hold alt, look all the way right, then all they way left, and then recenter and the LCD screens will update.

I just tried it and it only shows grey points on the lcd... and it isnt moving.

LOL russian text haha

@tomkrist:
Have you started the timer?

I have setup everything like you said in the video. It displays correct with velocity at 000. But the marker is not moving and the numbers is 000 all the time.

@VIVISEKTOR:
From google "translite" as you spelled it:
"let me fuck you understand or not , google translite to help"

I'd prefer you keep all fornication to yourself.

"Translited" your other message as well:
"pindos"

So hurtful...

Don't even bother commenting here if you are going to be belligerent.

да мне похуй понимаете вы или нет, google translite в помощь

@Syrikzero:
Hope you enjoy :)

@Clanner Jake:
This would be quite a sight :)

@tomkrist:
Open a program block in the terminal. Click the workshop button bottom right.

@Caffeinix continued:
"I'd think you would just normalize the velocity vector"
No. That removes absolutely all visual data about the magnitude of the speed.


"take its angle against the normalized facing vector in pitch and yaw, and use those angles to display the crosshair. If the velocity vector has zero magnitude, you'll have to pick a direction arbitrarily"
You don't even need to touch angles at all. Picking a direction arbitrarily is a terrible idea.

" I'd love to see a true vector indication using it"
From the description: This code creates a colored graphical representation of your velocity vector and displays it on a screen

Again let me state: This code presents a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional velocity vector. The length from center to any point along an axis is a vector projection of that velocity onto that axis.

@Caffeinix:
"Could you make a version of this that actually shows you the *direction* of your velocity vector?"

It already does. If you are moving right the indicator is along the right axis. If you move down it is on the down axis. If you move forward it is green. If you move backwards it is red.

"yours shows relative velocity along each axis, which is not the same thing"

It is absolutely the same thing. The position on the vector on the screen is a two dimensional projection of the three dimensional vector.

"(and is less useful if you're moving slowly, since it will always appear that you're moving "forward" even if you're travelling at 90 degrees from your facing direction."

Increase the resolution and the max speed then. It will make the code more sensitive to tiny movements.

How do i find the code ingame?

if you could get some more help, you could make one that used custom textures i'm sure, or even make this with a holographic display, with an arrow... people would scream how boss that would be. my first script sub :).

I wonder what this would look like with my cockpit. *Suscribed*

Could you make a version of this that actually shows you the *direction* of your velocity vector? As you said, yours shows relative velocity along each axis, which is not the same thing (and is less useful if you're moving slowly, since it will always appear that you're moving "forward" even if you're travelling at 90 degrees from your facing direction.

To do that, I'd think you would just normalize the velocity vector, take its angle against the normalized facing vector in pitch and yaw, and use those angles to display the crosshair. If the velocity vector has zero magnitude, you'll have to pick a direction arbitrarily (probably forward) or even better, not display the crosshair at all.

Your display code is ingenious, so I'd love to see a true vector indication using it. :)

Now all I need is a transparent LCD screen!

Cool, that sounds interesting.

@Stockton:
I'm working on an horizon indicator, and I already have a bearing code on the workshop. Altitude is not accessable to programs and I doubt that I would be able to combine all those on one screen as making stuff with non-monospaced font is quite dificult.

Very cool. Would you be able to make an artificial horizon / compass bearing / altitude / velocity multifunction display, like in a modern aircraft?

@Kylo Ben:
Yes! The setup is EXACTLY the same as in the video, just for a large ship! The optimal text sizes should work too :)

@Zankar:
G-force has to do with acceleration. The position of the velocity indicator represents its relative velocity along that axis of travel. So if your indicator is halfway up the positive y-axis axis, that means that you are traveling 50 m/s up.

@LookAtMyHorse:
Thanks for the catch :)
And I'll see what I can do. Drawing is quite challenging with this system

@Uhthis:
Thanks, I wanted to make sure that I didn't break stuff on accident while coding. I guess it also helps users XD

Nice job with the code! Really love the "no touchey" parts lol

"control, or passenger sear that" typo
would it be possible to make a mode with a straight line between the middle and the cross?

Looks more like G-force meter than velocity, but still cool.

gorgeous mod! Brought something (as marcello said) that is mod included, into the vanilla game, which I adore. I always love building in vanilla, and this script just adds an awesome depth. Nice work! Does it work with large ships? I've been seeing that a lot of visual scripts (ie radar mods) will work on small grids, but on large grids they break

@gripenblau:
Thank you :)

raely nice :)

just trying to help

@Doge ドージェ:
I have better ways to spend my time.

*language* to english on google

@VIVISEKTOR:
I'm sorry, I can't read that language lol

пиндосы

@Tadayoshii-kun, @qwerty8783, The helmet mod by Digi already has that functionality, is very useful for fighters. It shows a sphere in the bottom center on your HUD with a 3D arrow that points in the direction of your vector and elongates the faster you go and shortens when you decrease speed.

Why you no tell us you had birthday? Now seriously, happy birthday!