Vizzy on Non Controlled Craft - What Works and What Doesn't

@TweedleAerospace Oh. Thanks for letting me know, I was getting tired of that method lol

@david10777 I think so. Btw you can use while true loops to indefinitely repeat instead of a ton of 9s on a repeat.

Ah so it’s just a bug then, not my shitty vizzy? @TweedleAerospace

@sflanker vizzy doesn’t seem to work at all when controlling an astronaut in a cockpit. Any inputs set with vizzy are ignored in the next frame.

@sflanker does the pitch slider work?

Throttle inputs didn’t work even when right next to each other for me. I have confirmed that it was told to

yes, have been playing around with that(broadcast), and it is NOT reliable, there is some kind of flaky semi independent behavour, but nothing to build on. @sflanker

@Oscarcarserud interesting idea. I think it is possible to communicate between multiple command pods/chips using the broadcast [message] with data [value] to craft instruction. However that only works when they are both in the same craft (where multiple things connected with docking ports count as one "craft").

So, unfortunately this doesn't help when we're talking about the limitations of non-controlled craft. If a craft isn't player controlled it has absolutely no way to sense other craft.

I wonder if you can have a pod and a chip, both connected to the same craft. and use the chip as a "radar" that can move with hinges, to track one object. and have the pod be in prograde. (or another heading). That way you would be able to read the difference between the "radar" angle when tracking pitch reaching >0.0 .
But then you need a wizzy cript that can:
1. read input from another chip, regarding that chips inputs.
or
2.able to switch between command pod and commandchip wia vizzy.
But i do not know how.

@sflanker could you also update the post to tell us about auto burn capabilities because I’m trying to create a reusable booster and my second stage is nowhere to be seen after booster landing thx

I have updated the post with some new information about Flight Programs running on non-player-controlled craft within the atmosphere. Unfortunately the results are quite disheartening. Basically after the craft is more than 1km away from the player almost nothing works, your rocket becomes a ballistic lump of metal with no angular velocity and no flight controls.

I have reason to believe that things may be better in orbit, but I still need to do more testing.

This will be awesome!

i went testing thinking i can control it lol. that list is great, the "working" things can be useful

Not being able to lock the heading of non-controlled craft really pisses me off a lot tho

Have a upvote

Thank you for this!