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Orbital Autopilot and Map

This script allows you to keep a ship in orbit around a planet and render an orbital map.

Instructions:

You ship will need a few components for this script to do its job.
The most important is a ship controller. This can be either a remote control or a cockpit. It must be named "OrbitController" for the script to find it. This block will define the orientation of the ship when orbiting a planet with the autopilot. The Up side of this block will point away from the planet, and the Front side will point forward.

The autopilot can be activated with the argument "toggleAutopilot". When activated it will attempt to allign the ship with the target orbit and then accelerate to the required orbital velocity. In order for the autopilot to work your ship will need a gyroscope and 1 thruster in each direction.

To select an orbit you can run the script with the arguments "forward", to generate an orbit based on your current direction, or "input", to generate an orbit based on the input variables. There are a lot of things you can change in the input section of the script, so I suggest you take a look at that.

The orbital map can be rendered by adding an lcd panel named "OrbitDisplay". This will display the planet (grey), the ship (green), the target orbit (light blue) and the current trajectory (magenta). If you add waypoints to the ship controller (if it is a remote control), these will be also be displayed (blue).

Extra stats and error messages can be displayed on an lcd panel by naming it "OrbitStats".


A Speed mod is highly recommended for autopilot functionality.
I suggest one of these:
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=380168871
or this one:
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=599536562