Could you make a repo for this on GitHub? I'd love to contribute back, and opening up the source makes that nice and easy. 🥰

Check out this person's scripting-function (no mod); it provides a more reliable, drop-in way to find the planet that functions regardless of changed gravity-falloff or other mods:

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3292258808

Can i somehow set the periasis and apoasis? Thrusters contiunously fireing to hold altitude on an eccentric orbit what isnt good.

Does this work with stations?

How do we add this to a LCD inside a cockpit ?

Does this support LCDs built in blocks, like the ones in a cockpit?

@thecodeking91 You're probably not in a planets actual gravity field (where your alt. is displayed and you can't jump), I think Real Orbits changes the gravity falloff, as in how far you are actually affected by nat. gravity, but not the size of the gravity field itself (if that makes sense). I think that's why the dev made the Real Orbits ready solar system(s).

I am trying to use this script with the Real Orbits mod. It is telling me to enter a planet's sphere of influence, although the game's HUD shows that I am being affected by 0.34 Gs of natural gravity. Is there any way to fix this?

Cool, glad it's still useful after all this time :)

Thank you for the wonderful script Renener. This makes playing with Real Orbits so easier as I no longer needing to remote control my rockets to a stable orbit for building a comm sat network (^_^)b

Hi, I'm within the planet SOI, but I keep getting error not in planet SOI.

If I wanted to tell the script to go to the altitude specified in the input section but maintain the current direction/angle of orbit, how would I achieve that?

I also modified the script to transmit the 3d map of the satellites position to LCDs in my main base.

Nice mod when paired with Real Orbits. I put a bunch of satellites around my planet with ore detectors and they sniff out all the goodies.

Google is your friend

What is "planet SOI" I keep getting that error while trying to get it to work.

its set to that by default

set the display mode: text and image. Good mod!

i cant get it to display the orbit or stats on screens, i names them properly and i recompiled and ran the script multiple times and everything else works fine

There should be a line in the script where it looks for a block named "OrbitController". You can probably change that to whatever name you have in mind.

When you changed the name of it after verifying that it worked, did it stop working?

I forget if I or someone else has asked this before, apologies if so; but are you able to change the name of the OrbitController block to something custom?

Did you perhaps do what it told you to do? Maybe AFTER you kept posting the same crap over and over again?

After a few minutes the script just stops and ask for SOI and then it comes back after sometime. Sometimes crashing on the planet. Any known reason for that?

After a few minutes the script just stops and ask for SOI. Any known reason for that?

afaik it can only find blocks on the same grid

Does this script have any issues if it were placed on a subgrid like a rotor based large to small grid adaption to make a detailed cockpit? The issue I am encountering is that the PB on the subgrid of a large to small rotor won't display the "OrbitDisplay" on a text panel which is on a hinge subgrid attached to the aforementioned rotor grid. Hope that wasn't too confusing...

yeah there is a problem with how the game defines the gravity well and when you can access it through code. There was a problem with one of the newer planets as well (not sure if that was fixed) where those areas don't match, so you might see gravity affecting you ship, but the program can't do anything with it. I assume modded planets would have the same problem. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it :(

Trying to use this on a modded planets, when I try it says "please enter planet SOI"
ik that means sphere of influence, but I'm in the gravity well and idk what to do

Well that's a simple answer, I for one can actually feel empathy (unlike some people) and care about how you feel the need to put down others because they're asking questions.

The script doesn't care about the gravity falloff at all, it just uses the force of gravity at whatever height it is at to calculate how fast to go. If the real orbits mod changes the force of gravity at any given height it should already work just like that, but I haven't used it myself so I can't confirm that.

Does this script have functionality with the Real Orbits mod? Like, is there somewhere in the script that can have the default gravity falloff value changed (Real Orbits changes it from 1 -> 2) and have it still work?

I would love to use this script in tandem with Real Orbits since Real Orbits packages a lot of functionality with an easy to edit Config.xml file and a solid updating UI text readout for changing your orbit. But I also want the awesome LCD visualization capability of your script so I can turn off Real Orbit's drawn in-game orbital path lines (which are messy and take me out of the game a bit compared to a nice path drawn on a screen from your script).

Sure I can, as soon as you manage to tell me why you think you have even the slightest business questioning me.

Until that time, grow up and F off

SMoore can you explain to me why you're projecting all of your negativity on others when they didnt ask for it

Maybe the orbit is too high? I'm not sure what the numbers are for different planets but try reducing the orbitheight value, that might help.

im trying to make this awsome script work on a ship but when activating it in the orbit of earth it always kicks me out of the gravitation range and lets me fly off where ever, need help :)

Why are you being a crybaby?

SMooreAce why are you being so toxic

Put in a few seconds of effort and figure it out yourself!

Will this work with the Real Orbits mod by Echthros?

Could u add something that moves the ship out of the way of asteroids

Why dont you spend 5 seconds of effort figuring it out yourself rather than spamming worthless BS asking someone to do it for you?

Basically we just want the script to be able to register gravity drives in addition to the normal ones and maybe create a toggle to switch between gravity only, thrusters only, and hybrid

Hey man, I saw on a comment bellow you don't have the Transparent LCD... I would love to give you the Expansion pack that has it, as a gratitude for the awesome script you posted ;) I just added you as a friend.

You dont

i keep getting an error on my server how am i supposed to install it????

Nothing is stopping you from making the changes except YOU

savage i want my pbs to look pretty every other I have puts something up on it

maybe one day :P

any chance you could get it to display on the programmable block like whip does?