The linked hunchback has 3 types of drop pods i designed for this script inside of it: https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=883186115

Anyone got some good blueprints of this?

I think the cryo interfered with the remote controller until I restarted. It's one of many odd things I've found that require a restart to fix.

yes, cryo pods/beds do not constitute ship controllers.

Apparently if you occupy a cryo pod instead of a seat or cockpit of some kind it's not happy. Even if you have a remote block to give reference. However, exiting the game completely and restarting fixed my issue. Now, if somebody could create a new mod that cleans KEENs hopelessly dirty glass (all the old ones no longer work, even mine) I'd be really happy.

Do you have enough thrust to fly on your own?

It appears to have some issues with the new thrusters, and I'm unsure why. I have been trying to use the new flat atmo thrusters and no go.

sorry i got it

no matter what I do it just says no downward thrusters found

descent speed is only considered when the drop pod is actively burning for landing

The variable decentSpeed does not seem to do anything, from my limited testing. I'm trying to get my pod to descent at a max speed of 60 m/s, but it just freefalls everytime.
Am I doing something wrong, is there another setting I should be looking at?

I love the idea of making a large space to planet assault ship that deploys huge turret towers down to a planets surface, they land and attach upright using deployable mag legs, and then begin to fire at the enemy base, with a strong modded gyro i bet that would work

is there any command to cancel the drop and reset all the gyros to their previous configuration?

Up oriented relative to the remote or seat tagged with "Drop Pod" in its name

the script primarily uses up oriented thrusters for braking, yes? i have two control seats and two remote control blocks, all in proper orientation. one seat and one remote block are selected as primary. could this set up interfere with the script?

The only other thing I can think of is that your ship controller is not oriented properly. The down direction of the tagged ship controller is used to find braking thrust

thrusters dont have an ownership option, and i went through and checked ownership of everything else. I dont have any mods installed that change anything about thrusters either. still making craters lol

Sounds like ownership issues. Warfare ions are no different than regular ions to this script.

quick question - is anyone else having issues with the script not recognizing warfare ion thrusters? I have a ship with only that style and it is consistently impacting the moon surface without activating braking thrust - usually throws an error claiming there are no thrusters, but not every time. no speed mods and works perfect with original vanilla thrusters both on the moon and on earth-like.

Could I use this as a sort of "auto lander" for normal ships, i. e. I enable the scrip in a gravity well and the script would take me to almost above the surface (attemptToLand = false) and I then could manually land or fly my ship into a mountain or something, the normal SE stuff. Thanks.

can this guide a prop pod to a designated GPS? so you could make a titanfall script to drop mechs to ground troops

This is one of my favorite scripts. I like that it can land a drop pod that has only down thrust.

It would be nice if you could add the main screen of the programmable block to the list of statusScreens by adding drop pod to the Programmable Block's name.

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This still is easier and more accurate than the new keen automaton blocks being used for the same purpose. gj Whip

Hi, sorry if I missed it in the description, but is there a way to make the script stop itself while on the way down?

For example if I see a better landing spot on the way down and want to pause the descent to make a little horizontal progress before touching down?

This might work, thanks!

it _starts_ earlier by that many meters

But will that higher altitudeSafetyCushion make the ship end drop sequence higher above the ground, or it will just start decelerating sooner?

"How can I fix it?"

More thrust? haha

Are you sure you are not maxing out on power and overloading? Provided that you are not, the script should dynamically calculate how much stopping distance you need with the current thrust available.

You can also increase the altitudeSafetyCushion in the custom data to make it begin braking earlier.

I have a problem with implementing the script on a quite small ship. There's not much thrust due to it's compact design, and the script appears to start slowing down too late. How can I fix it?

I have to copy and paste the ship to see if i have an loose block who makes it rroll in hover mode, but right now it lowers its nose and rolls clockwise

"Then i am not clear, does the script orient the pod to stop sidemotion with down thruysters or does it level the ship for landing too?"

Both.

Reduce shutdownTime to 0 and it will give you back control as soon as you land

I toyed around using an freighter shuttle big block i build, it works as advertised but it does not give me back gyro control, i have to switch them back to manual after landing
I tried to do that over the timer the script can trigger but they remain override until i shut down script and set them back to manual.... no idea what i do wrong

Then i am not clear, does the script orient the pod to stop sidemotion with down thruysters or does it level the ship for landing too?

Because when i set it to not land but hover the ship starts to slowly roll... until i shut down script and switch gyros back to manual.

The height is automatically calculated on the fly, so no, not a set specific height.

Is there a way to make the thrusters activate at a specific height?

It definitely still works. I need more details to help.

Hey, your script doesn't work anymore. The rocket does not land but flies up 10 meters and drops again and again. Help pls

Okay, it works, but I don't know why it didn't before. I spent hours dropping the same vehicle from the same height and only changing thrusters and tanks if needed. Every time I used atmo thrusters it bounced (voxel and block damage off). I reloaded the game and restarted my computer several times, I even spent an hour looking through the code. Everything I checked said it had to work, but the atmospheric thrusters never once reacted to the program.

I got up to answer the door, leaving the game running, and then returned some time later and it then worked every time. Good, but it didn't explain why it hadn't worked before. So, I've spent most of the day since running diagnostics on my computer, because I am at a loss as to why. it didn't work before. I'm still lost, but glad it works. I managed to fix some small issues with my computer afterwards so it wasn't a total waste of time.

Also, ensure you have enough power and are not overloading. That is another issue I've seen in the past

maybe check if all of those thrusters are properly turned on and if you can use them yourself, perhaps you overlooked something simple (as things usually are ^^).

thruster force is continually calculated to account for efficiency change

I think I found the issue, if dropped from a significant altitude the thruster force is calculated from the altitude it's dropped from not the thruster's force nearer the surface.

I have used this script successfully with hydrogen and ion thrusters, but it doesn't work when I try it with atmospheric thrusters. I can't tell if it is detecting the thrusters on setup, but it doesn't indicate that it hasn't found them. It surely doesn't use them. I've run several trials with large grid thrusters, Not sure if it works with small grid atmospheric thrusters.

so this script could essentially be used on say a main ship that you just want to land in without having to babysit planetary landing right?

Is it possible to have thrusters that push you away from the vehicle you are detaching from?

Awesome. Thanks.

Drop duration is the minimum length of time that the drop pod will freefall before the brains kick in.

I see a "DropDuration" variable in the custom data field, but not in the variable list in the mod description. What does this do?
(Also, thanks for all your kick-*ss scripts, Whip)

What this would do is stop the drop pod from having an escape velocity when traveling upward. If using the vanilla speed limit of 104.4 m/s the gravity well of a planet is enough to slow the ascent of a drop pod and then begin its descent. But if using a speed mod, anything above vanilla speed needs to be released in lower and lower orbit to make sure it has enough distance inside the gravity well to slow down. Since this script turns off inertial dampeners, the retrograde thrusters don't help slow the drop pod unless it's traveling towards the planet.

I'm not sure I understand what that is supposed to do. You can enable a drop while flying up, the script will still work fine and start caring about braking once it starts descending