galarsson

You can also insert comments, that doesn't have to be stripped, in the code like this. {"My comment."}. The string within the parenthesis will not be executed because of the way the interpreter works, but the parsing will still cost an execution cycle.

Nice mod! Have started testing building my own launch to orbit script in hope to maximize fuel efficiency and are now trying to figure what all these rotations and vectors really are. Have figured out that surface speed in the gui seems to be the same as VERTICALSPEED + SURFACESPEED, which is confusing. Not only because of the name but since SURFACESPEED is declared as the horizontal speed in kOS, which would make this relation violate Pythagoras. Have been trying to create an accelerometer using the change in speed, so that I could determine the drag loss. Here is my current code for the accelerometer implemented in a "when" thread. It is somewhat shaky. Publishing it here in hope someone might be able to help me improve it. Although I think kOS should have an accelerometer and a gyro builtin, as that is what you probably have to do with in real life. {"Accelerometer thread. Calculates velocity change in horizontal and vertical direction. Not a true accelerometer as G-force is lacking."}. set a_vertical to 0. set a_horizontal to 0. set accelerometerThread to 1. when accelerometerThread = 1 then { print "Initializing accelerometer.". set accelerometerThreadPrevTime to MISSIONTIME. set accelerometerThreadPrevVerticalSpeed to 0. set accelerometerThreadPrevHorizontalSpeed to 0. print "Accelerometer started.". until accelerometerThread = 0 { set accelerometerThreadTime to MISSIONTIME. set accelerometerThreadVerticalSpeed to VERTICALSPEED. set accelerometerThreadHorizontalSpeed to (((SURFACESPEED + ABS(VERTICALSPEED))^2 - (VERTICALSPEED)^2)^0.5). if (accelerometerThreadTime - accelerometerThreadPrevTime) > 0.0 { set a_vertical to (accelerometerThreadVerticalSpeed - accelerometerThreadPrevVerticalSpeed) / (accelerometerThreadTime - accelerometerThreadPrevTime). set a_horizontal to (accelerometerThreadHorizontalSpeed - accelerometerThreadPrevHorizontalSpeed) / (accelerometerThreadTime - accelerometerThreadPrevTime). }. set accelerometerThreadPrevTime to accelerometerThreadTime. set accelerometerThreadPrevVerticalSpeed to accelerometerThreadVerticalSpeed. set accelerometerThreadPrevHorizontalSpeed to accelerometerThreadHorizontalSpeed. }. print "Accelerometer ended.". }. Thanks again for a great mod, will now go back to scripting. By the, way does anyone else feel like the yaw and pitch have got swapped somehow when reading out rotations?