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Autopilot to stations
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:21 am
by ollobrain
A suggetsion thats probably alreday in the works But autopilot to station and being able to access and zoom in on the orbital map into a planet and then scroll into a bit further and see a dot for all the stations around and set a working autopilot to the station
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:58 am
by doomdark64
Autopilot anywhere,especially to planets though often crashes you into the ground. is a fix in the pipeline for this?
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:26 am
by ollobrain
from what ive read it is for alpha 8
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:56 am
by doomdark64
ollobrain wrote:
from what ive read it is for alpha 8
Ahh excellent stuff chaps.
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:39 am
by s2odan
Well I had a little go at adding in that feature but didn't have much luck.I wouldn't say it will be in alpha 8 unless I figure out how to fix the error I get with my tweak to add this.Or unless Tom adds it, as he knows a lot more than me about coding.
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:02 pm
by mathee
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:49 pm
by Stardreamer
Or here's an idea. How about a button/command/key/right-click menu that gives you an on-screen list of every destination in the system, then you left click on a box or entry or whatnot to select the navigation target? You could chuck that whole cumbersome 3D view out then.

RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:52 pm
by doomdark64
FFE3D uses the nav computer to list all the dockable places in the system your in then its a case of choosing and pressing autopilot.dont know how difficult something like that would be to do.
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:25 pm
by ollobrain
Im guessing there would be some degree of difficulty with programming it but it shouldnt be overly difficult for someone who knows how to code.
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:09 pm
by ollobrain
proximity alarm sounds like a good idea
RE: Autopilot to stations
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:27 am
by Bugbear
A collision alert might be nice too - where you're current vector (speed + direction) is going to result in a collision due to insufficient thrust...Not sure how useful it would be though.