List of suggestions for vizzy

@pedro16797 I don’t trust discord, last time I used it, it gave my computer a virus, and that’s just installing it.

@GLaDOSpOrtal22 you should ask these questions in one of the discord servers, in the SRC there's a channel dedicated to vizzy where you can ask about anything to the best Vizzy players.

How do I have vizzy do something at a pacific altitude? Like pitch to 87 at the altitude of 18,292.

@haogejiuhaoge1 If you mouse over the drop down option it displays a tooltip that provides an explanation: "Clamps the magnitude of the left vector to the magnitude of the right vector or constant number."

To elaborate a little, this expression can be used either with a two vectors or with a vector and a number. The result will be a vector. The resulting vector will point in the same direction as the original vector, but will have a magnitude that is equal to the second vector's magnitude. Clamp could be implemented as normalize(vector1) * length(vector2).

Examples

1. [ (100, 100, 0) ] clamp [ vec [0], [3], [3] ] ==> (3, 3, 0)
2. [ (100, 100, 0) ] clamp [ 4.24264 ] ==> (3, 3, 0)

Caveat

When passing vectors to expressions it is usually ok to use the text representation (i.e. ( 1, 2, 3)), however because the second argument to clamp might be a number or a vector, the clamp expression does not handle this correctly, so you must use an actual vector value (which is why in my example I used the vec [1], [2], [3] expression.

FYI, for the best results, instead of pinging a developer on a random suggestion thread, either make a new post in the question forum, or ask on the SimpleRockets Chat Discord. No offense, but the developers have better things to do with their time.

@AndrewGarrison I have some difficulty in sr2. I really want to know how to comprehend the meaning of ''clamp'' in the calculate between two vectors.I try to understand it in many ways but I still don't understand.I wish you to help me to understand ''clamp''.
I'm looking forward to your reply

wow it was quickly implemented :)

@Oscarcarserud Check the latest beta branch

Lat / Long ! what I would love that.
Also a universe star date. If that existed you would be able to calculate the position of the planets in anny given time.

@AndrewGarrison sorting(?), with the ones you said there would be enough though. The only thing that concerns me is input controller interaction.
Would PartName.FlightProgram.List(index) format work?

@pedro16797 I was considering adding them arrays (well, actually lists), but no promises. I was thinking it would have these instructions: Add, Insert At Index, Remove At Index, Set At Index, Clear, Get At Index, Length, Index Of, and Contains.

@AndrewGarrison after what I said I wanted to try this and it worked. I'm really glad this works. Still not as compact as creating one array of size X since you have to generate the variables and you can't use them in any equation, but at least it's possible to iterate them to set or change by.
I want to explore the use of strings as arrays for numbers, my first guess (char*1 being the ascii value) was wrong, but there has to be a workaround

@AndrewGarrison are you planning to add the arrays? I've been trying to do some programs and having to iterate them going 1 var each time is quite painful, having some kind of var(i) for iteration (or even iterators) would be quite useful

@AndrewGarrison that's great to know actually

@pedro16797 Using a Wait 0 seconds instruction will cause program execution to pause until the next frame, so you can use that in a loop to accomplish that.

No plans for in-flight patching. That would be quite difficult.

@AndrewGarrison would it be possible to allow for on the go patches for the Vizzy program? So you can change mid flight the program like irl

@NoIDontWanna that would be cool @AndrewGarrison
Something like having two wait block styles
wait X s
wait X ticks

@AndrewGarrison When I wrote it every time I saved a program the suggested name was the default name for a new program, I've tested it now and it seems to keep the name, not sure if it was in a beta or a bug, haven't played too much lately and can't test it more. I would consider it fixed, if I run into this issue again I'll make a bug report

@AngelLestat @pedro16797 Can you elaborate on this one "Keeping the name of the program when saving multiple times." When I save a flight program it remembers the last name. Does it not do that on your device?

Priority to this:
Keeping the name of the program when saving multiple times
A folder that stores all your custom blocks instead of the ones in the current program only
An option to easily swap between Vizzy programs in the same craft

@AndrewGarrison it would be cool to have the coordinates of the intersection between the trajectory and the planet like in KSP mod Trajectories

@swope i would think the vector from your position to the target’s position (updated every frame) you could calculate a heading by projecting it on a north and east vector. Maybe a line of sight function would be helpful as well to know if the vector intersects the planet.

I wish we could be there at SciTech! Sounds like fun! Maybe next year.

@AndrewGarrison - I'm at #aiaaSciTech and I feel like there should have been a SimpleRockets 2 booth in the exhibition hall! Great teaching stuff.

Looking forward to trying it out soon. I had the same question as @pedro16797 ... If the location is in inertial space, how will we have precision landings at the space center, or other surface locations or airborne waypoints?

@pedro16797 I’m glad to hear you’re excited. I think a way to convert a lat/long to and from an earth centered x,y,z vector would be all you need for that.

@AndrewGarrison it's unfair to have most part of the last comment dedicated to the location.
I'm quite hyped about having vectors, we talked about that and thought you shouldn't even bother because of complexity, looking at that screenshot just blew my mind.
Vizzy is going to be both a learning platform and a really complex and powerful interface. The potential of the game keeps growing faster and faster. If you nail a couple more key features as you've been doing this game could be a milestone for astronomical, scientific and coding educational purposes.

@AndrewGarrison amazing job! With position it would be cool to have some way to determine position relative to surface (ie: gps like utilisations, trying to land in a specific place...), how would that work ignoring planet rotation?

About the coordinates, if you add an option to get the coordinates of saved locations it may help with this very upvoted suggestion and in the career mode you can just remove the option to spawn in them and let the players use them as waypoints/markers without having to do an independent system