Pov: Control tank's turret and planes just with your mouse

[topaz dock]

bro bout to make minethunder

[jovial flame]

ye you will be able to use wasd to control tank's movement, while using your mouse to aim and using space to fire

[limpid pewter]

and you still have shift free

gj

[summer tulip]

wait player detectors work on ships?

[jovial flame]

shift + space is for reloading

[jovial flame]

It doesn't work correctly on ships

[summer tulip]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1055896916300419113.gif?v=1&size=48&quality=lossless

[jovial flame]

because it return the yaw and pitch relatively to the ship instead of the overworld

But you can use reader.getRotation

and somehow figure out the real player's facing direction

[jovial flame]

and shift itself is for disabling mouse-control when pressed

[jovial flame]

no more thruster

[atomic gyro]

schematic please

[wintry compass]

wtf

how...

[jovial flame]

There will be when I finish building sth with this

[jovial flame]

VS computer + Player detector from Advanced peripheral mod

[wintry compass]

oh okay

[atomic gyro]

nice

[pliant tapir]

Schematic?

[jovial flame]

mouse control pitching √

[topaz dock]

how tf did the picture duplicate

[jovial flame]

no idea. it didn't duplicate from my view

[hot dagger]

@jovial flame idk if u know but cbc is adding its own optical control thing so itll be even easier than this later on

[jovial flame]

yes I do know that. But guess that will be in long future update

[violet nest]

Very nicely done! Long wanted to do something like this

BTW @jovial flame you can read turret pitch and yaw directly from it with a Block Reader from Advanced Peripherals

You don't really need the external block as an angle sensor.

[jovial flame]

I do know Advanced Peripherals, and I use the player detector in it to get the player's yaw and pitch

[violet nest]

Yes, I see you're doing that

[jovial flame]

But as far as I know there is not a block reader that can read bearing's pitch and yaw in Advanced Peripherals

But there is a digital adapter in Create Craft & Addition mod that can read bearing's angle

[violet nest]

Is this not an item in your game?

[jovial flame]

https://docs.intelligence-modding.de/peripherals/block_reader/

It can not read the bearing's angle or the auto cannon's angle

[violet nest]

That is the one.

[violet nest]

It can. It can read a tile entity's NBT

I should have some code that does that, give me a minute to find it

[jovial flame]

Oh I haven't tried that

[violet nest]

local reader = peripheral.find("blockReader")

os.startTimer(0.05)
while true do
  local event = os.pullEvent()
  if event == "timer" then
    os.startTimer(0.1)
    local NBT = reader.getBlockData()
    --print("Looking at "..NBT)
    print("Start")
    print("Pitch = "..NBT.CannonPitch..", Yaw = "..NBT.CannonYaw)
  elseif event == "key" then
    print("exiting")
    break
  end
end

[jovial flame]

Thanks. I might tried use block reader tomorrow after work or this weekend

[violet nest]

I will make sure to follow your progress.

[jovial flame]

BTW using another bearing as an angle sensor is not that bad imo

Like I can fake it as a gun shield if I'm building a tank

and I can fake it as a fire control radar if I'm building an anti aircraft vehicle

[violet nest]

If I were to do it, I would at least attach it directly to the gun's rotational input

Rather than create a second redstone based drive

That might create imprecision

[jovial flame]

I will make them has the same kinetic input

But different rpm

[violet nest]

The gun has inherent 1:8 gearshift inside

[jovial flame]

Those videos above are just for proving this mechanism

[jovial flame]

ye

[violet nest]

And doing a great job regardless

I just thought it might be good to know the options

Are you using a PID for the platform rotation btw?

[jovial flame]

sry I don't know what is the PID

I'm not a native english speaker

[violet nest]

Proportional - Integral - Differential controller

The platform stops very smoothly at the appropriate angle, so I thought you might have one

[jovial flame]

no I'm not that good enough to do that lol

[violet nest]

Don't worry, you're well ahead many VS builders either way. You'll get there :)

[jovial flame]

It is just different redstone outputs under different conditions