Surface height

[Warezcrawler]

Since the autorove mod is not updated, and it does not seem like it will happen soon, I'm considering assume maintenance. However, my first attempt in getting it to work in KSP 1.1.2 was only partially successfull.

My first autorove ended up underground.... That's no good 

Currently the mod is calculating the height at which to place the rover, at a given latitude/longitude on a specific body like this.

        internal static double surfaceHeight(double latitude, double longitude, CelestialBody body)
        {
            Vector3d pqsRadialVector = QuaternionD.AngleAxis(longitude, Vector3d.down) * QuaternionD.AngleAxis(latitude, Vector3d.forward) * Vector3d.right;
            double altitude = body.pqsController.GetSurfaceHeight(pqsRadialVector) - body.pqsController.radius;

            return altitude;
        }

Now my question is, what is the best way to calculate the height to put the vessel after moving it. There must be some robust way of determining where to spawn the vessel, I'm just not sure how.

 

Can anybody help me figuring this out?

[Guest]

Maybe this can help

 

you can contact the author and ask for help 

[stupid_chris]

HULLO

I'm not sure what the question is though. That code does give you the height at this lat/long coordinates. After that, if you want to spawn a vehicle on the surface,there isnt an easy way to do it. Something like the HyperEdit autoland feature works.

[Warezcrawler]

3 hours ago, stupid_chris said:

HULLO

I'm not sure what the question is though. That code does give you the height at this lat/long coordinates. After that, if you want to spawn a vehicle on the surface,there isnt an easy way to do it. Something like the HyperEdit autoland feature works.

I do get your confusion. The fact is that I'm looking at updating autorove mod, but if I cannot get it to work there is no point. 

Upon testing I ran into the issue, that the rover ended up underground, hence my question regarding surface height. I would like to remove this issye which I didn't notice in ksp 1.05.

[stupid_chris]

Just now, Warezcrawler said:

I do get your confusion. The fact is that I'm looking at updating autorove mod, but if I cannot get it to work there is no point. 

Upon testing I ran into the issue, that the rover ended up underground, hence my question regarding surface height. I would like to remove this issye which I didn't notice in ksp 1.05.

Except for anyone not knowing what the autorove mode is, that's quite nebulous. Also I'll repeat myself, but if you're trying to spawn a vehicle on the surface, the safe way to do it is like HyperEdit does it.

[Warezcrawler]

1 minute ago, stupid_chris said:

Except for anyone not knowing what the autorove mode is, that's quite nebulous. Also I'll repeat myself, but if you're trying to spawn a vehicle on the surface, the safe way to do it is like HyperEdit does it.

Autorove http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/129363-105autorove-autonomous-rovermovement-in-the-background/

I didn't think about reference the mod directly. Sorry.

Well The mod is moving a rover in the background, so that you don't need to drive it manually. So maybe it is like spawning. It changes the coordinates of the vessel, and to do that it really needs the height to place it at.

I will look at hyperedit again, but that one is not easy.... thanks.