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Wico Modular Orbital

Max descent speed added.

'setmode 0' stops the current command/mode and goes into standby

I'll look at code options for good ways to add limits to descent.

This is a tricky subject because the "flash point" where atmo is thick enough to go plasma on entry is variable. Chutes would work for the world I was testing on as this interface was about 7-8km from the surface and chutes have a max height of 10k, however on world I play online the planet is HUGE, this interface point is at 17-19k up. I know just about all of your scripts work together to practically make an automated shuttle run possible, so to keep that in the loop, that's a lot of work to calculate out. Do you do it by altitude, straight speed limit, link into Drago's mod to get temps--so many ways to go about it and more variables to fry SE's engine. :P

Tho one easy thing you can do, put in an off switch to have the script stop hover, ascent, and decent control.

You're right, it is geared for suicide landings.

Should there be a max landing (descent) speed?

What about parachutes? Or something else?

Thanks for getting that out this fast! Did another 2 more tests on ships that I have actually ran into overheating and plasma on the way up when doing the thruster override thing manually and your script is fine on the way up, it tops out at 100ms (before the update) and with the max world speed set for 150ms it cruises up just fine. It's on the way down that it freefalls at max speed. The work-around is just hit the hover program and brakes great at that MaxQ point. Once there in the descent process that if you're going max, temps shoot up from 0 to 5000+ deg and stuff starts melting--great mod. Tried this before your update and after. Decent speed may be a bit harder on the code as it looks like the script is geared for suicide landings. If it's an easy fix, by all means, please do, otherwise don't worry about it too much, it's flawless on leaving atmo.

max launch speed setting added to CustomData

Let me know if you need anything else.

This thing works great, automatically calculates the max thrust on whatever side and uses that to get you into orbit. An interesting thing when used with Sabrina MkII where she does a flip mid way and reverses up (6 lg Ions fwd vs 4 rear.) One feature request tho, can you add a setting (custom data or in code header) for max ascent/decent speed? Turns out if using the aerodynamics mod, you burn up before you get to a point where braking thrust kicks in. Looking forward to more updates to your library.

The source is on my GitHub (along with many other scripts)

https://github.com/Wicorel/WicoSpaceEngineers/tree/master/Modular/WMOrbital

This works really well for getting out of atmo and surprisingly well for landing too - I've never seen a landing like it. Strangely it hovers me vertically instead of horizontally and I had a bit of trouble disengaging. Is it possible to get an un-minified version of this that I can learn from?

oh yeah. I've fixed most of those, but didn't republish... Let me refresh my testing and update the workshop.. Sorry.