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Wico Craft Control

Rover and Drone Control

Meant to be generic controller script for keeping rovers and drones working correctly.

• calculates basic information needed by most scripts such as current location, simspeed, movement speed, etc.
  
• initiates sub-modules
  
• passes arguments on to sub-modules.
  
• processes 'commands' in its own name to set operational modes and options. For example, 'rocket'.
  
• making sure antenna doesn't get turned off (bug in SE turn off antenna when trying to remotely connect to grid)

Modes Handled:

• MODE_IDLE default to 'do nothing' mode. can be used for manual control.
  
  Some sub-modules may detect environment and then change the mode. For example, a planetary navigation module may change to MODE_HOVER if the ship is in gravity.
  
  
• MODE_ATTENTION Another 'do nothing' mode, but means the ship needs player attention to resolve an issue.

General Commands
idle - manual control
init - re-gather all blocks for the craft
coast - turn on/off backward thrusters to allow coasting
setvaluef - set a float value of a named block

setvaluef <block name>:<Property Name>:<value>

Example:

genpatrol [distance [up]]

Examples:



Setup:

Programmable block.
Add the following to the name of the block to set basic operartional overrides:

• "Rocket" (whithout quotes) to designate as a rocket (main thrusters are 'forward')
  
• "Sled to force Sled" mode vehicle (0 friction wheels for support and forward/back/left/right thrusters + Gyros for movement
  
• "Orbital" to force orbital-capable mode. This mode will also be defaulted if the craft contains more than one type of thruster.
  
• "nad" No automatic docking. Do not detect connector lock and automatically connect connectors.
  
• "rotor" [obsolete]
  
• "pet" pet mode is enabled. if Pet sub-module is installed, it will check sensors for player
  
• "noautogyro" turn off auto-align capability in planets. (note: sub-modules must be written to pay attention to this option)
  
• "nopower" do not manage power systems such as batteries. Mainly for sub-modules that detected 'docked' and would want to turn on 'recharge' mode.
  
• "notank" do not manage hydrogen tanks. Same reason as nopower.

Optional Main Timer Block
Create a timer block

• Name not important.
  
• set to 1 second delay
  
• run the PB with the control script with the parameter "timer"
  
• (optional) run other scripts that want a 1second delay
  
• start itself

Optional Timer blocks
"FAST" timer

• Name must contain "[WCCT]".
  
• delay is not important
  
• run the PB with the control script with the parameter "wcct"
  
• DO NOT (re)start itself

sub-module timer

• Name must contain "[WCCS]".
  
• delay is not important
  
• run the sub-module's PB with the control script with the parameter "wccs"
  
• add all sub-modules as needed
  
• DO NOT (re)start itself

Text Panels (LCD/Text)

Wico Craft Status Optional. Text panel with this name will receive status updates from the script. Updated once per script execution. Optional
Wico Craft Log Optional. Text panel with this name will receive long term updates on changes in the script. Optional
"Craft Report" Optional. the first text panel containing this string will be used for mode reporting. For example, details during orbital launch.
Wico Craft Save Text panel with this name will serve as long-term storage for the script to allow operations to continue after game load. REQUIRED FOR SUBMODULES.



Some of my example blueprints:

Very capable orbital Launch and landing craft:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=602335946

Pet (auto-follow)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=605033718


Sub-Modules list:

Collection: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1436521807

• Space Nav https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=797020890
  
• Space Mine https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=883866371
  
• Orbital Descent https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=697608916
  
• Orbital Launch https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=605685116
  
• Docking https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=883865519
  
• Antenna and base connectors: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=883864500

Source Code:
MDK: https://github.com/malware-dev/MDK-SE/
Uncompressed source for this script here: https://github.com/Wicorel/SpaceEngineers/tree/master/MDK%20Craft%20Control