the REAL new ZZ1 😆

I'm loving the idea of auto-combat! I'm terrible at doing it manually 😳

That looks great Rob.

Yes! Hehe, I was about to suggest that when I saw the pic, but looks like your already on it.

Something like this perhaps? :

Earth

- Shanghai

- Mexico City

- Ect

* Moon

*- Lunar City

Mars

- Cydonia

ect

Exactly like that. I was also thinking it might be cute to put a little icon next to it to indicate what the thing is (orbital or surface starport, etc). I'll play some more.

Ever played IL-2? The autopilot there is pretty good at shooting down enemy planes for you. Better than I am anyway. 🙂

Just to be clear, the autopilot fighting for you has nothing to do with me or this patch. Thats serious proper work being done by jaj22. I'm just adding UI clutter here 😉

Yep.. I realised that after I mentioned it. Looks like your nav computer is streamlining the whole thing nicely! Should make doing delivery missions a breeze 🙂

as long as i dont crash into the planets on dokcing ill be happy

Well, I just spent two weeks rewriting the autopilot so there should be a lot less random death now.

Not that I give a damn about the player. I just did it so that AIs can navigate and dock at 10000x 😀

Here's a couple of screenshots with groupings:

I can see how it could make it easier to find things under certain circumstances, but I'm still not sure I like it. I can't quite pin down what bothers me though. What do you all think?

robn!

I really like the grouping of the destinations as per planet/moon.

IMHO makes it way easier to find your desired destination.

Thank you for all your work on this.

You and the other Pioneer developers are really working wonders and marvels!

All the best

Frans

Yeah, this makes navigation a lot easier. Thanks for your efforts, Robn.

Great work Robn! 🙂

Great stuff, wen can we expect to see this? the next alpha or maybe a later version.?

jaj22 good work on the autopilot are there any situations where the player will still die while docking on autopilot ?

Well, at least one of the orbital station models has the wrong bounding radius so the autopilot won't dodge it properly. Other than that there are some theoretical issues involving physical limits and coincidences, for example it may struggle to fly to a station on a rapidly spinning planet at 10000x, it'll fall over if gravity is too large for the thrusters to counter, and it may struggle to dodge small fast-moving planets unrelated to its target.

Anything else is a bug 😀

so any way of avoiding planets with stations spinning at 10000x or wrong radius stations etc

Well, that should be simple enough to fix. Care to elaborate?

I see this as a feature, fly smart, use your stardreamer properly and monitor your approach and flight vectors! 😉

Hey it worked for David Braben! 😆

at least this program continues to develop and go forward unlike braben and elite 4 lol

I'm still interested in the space station model's bounding radius. I've been trying to enhance the stations and I've noticed that spacestation_entry1_stage3 crashes the modelviewer. I don't see what's wrong with the bounding radius, but is that the one you meant jaj22? This question belongs in the modeling thread, I know, but I've been unable to get interior lighting to work properly in that docking bay and you may have given me a clue as to why. I've tried a bounding radius of 200 and 400 with no apparent effect.

...but I'm still not sure I like it. I can't quite pin down what bothers me though. What do you all think?

Well, i am could not imagine life without this. Anyway, it will be nice addon, when every name have additional information about distance from your ship.