Schedules for Clockwork Air Vehicles

[worn shell]

Like the schedules for trains but make it so the Air vehicles move to coordinates at certian times.

[still thistle]

it will be pretty hard to do so

so they probably won't do that

[worn shell]

damn

would be cool because my friend wanted to build a floating city that reattaches to the main city

[still thistle]

well, you can always try to do it yourself with cc

[worn shell]

ill try

i dont understand it though

[lilac cove]

take even a minute

to just think about how hard that would be

think of all the advanced algorithms needed

just to make a vehicle with thrusters on any position be able to move from A to B

don’t even think about wings or propellers

just thrusters

think about how you would need to get the vector they push in and how to use that to dynamically control where the vehicle is looking

[worn shell]

yea i understand that it would be difficult

but i just wanted to give an idea because i thought it would be cool

[lilac cove]

and i think infinite energy would be cool

but i don’t ask potato to break the laws of thermodynamics

[worn shell]

ok jeez

[fleet night]

just make it a 4 directional block that triggesrs redstone on all 4 sides based on the direction it has to move to maintain course (inverted obviously so it can be hooked up to the correct sides without crisscrossing) 😎

[lilac cove]

ah yes

because planes don’t need to use wings

or have any thrusters that go up

and drones don’t exist

nor do helis

[fleet night]

for up and down u just make it able to be placed on walls so it points up and down instead of forwards/backwards

smh

also if ur using drones and helis ur already like

working with more complicated controls by default

[fickle nova]

Honestly kinda of sounds like something we use in robotics a lot called PID control in FRC we see a lot of teams do something similar with autonomous code just look up "FRC orbit robot reveal"

[lilac cove]

PID controllers won’t work here

they need to be manually tuned

[fickle nova]

could you not have it to where the player has the capability to manually tune the controller I know for most that's probably not something they are into but just a thought

idk tho @wooden basin seems to do a lot of work with pathing even if it's an implementation using cc he probably does it in a different way altogether

actually, now that I'm thinking about it PID would work but there isn't really a way to implement it in a way that could work for the billions of different designs possible for your airships.

[lilac cove]

…

at that point

just use CC

[wooden basin]

Usually, so far when I build a new tilt-ship I dont need to worry too much about tuning the PIDs.

Ever since I built my Hound Turrets to building each segment of my Geofish I havent changed my PID settings at all. I just had to make sure I calculate the ship's Inertia Tensors right

[fickle nova]

yeah essential the conclusion i came to takes a lotta work but should be possible

[fickle nova]

what are inertia Tensors?

[wooden basin]

Too much physics for me to explain coherently in a short time

@worn shell this guy made something similar to what you might be looking for:
https://discord.com/channels/244934352092397568/1148368858109976706

Tho, they havent released it publically yet

The pathing is 2D but the UI is great

[fickle nova]

that's still pretty cool i really want to get into that stuff but haven't had time

[wooden basin]

And it should be enough to direct islands around

Coincidentally, Im preping to release my code over the weekend

Tho, my system is built around VS2-Tournament thrusters