How to program a teleporter mod?

[UbuntuLinuxKing]

Hi,

I have a couple questions on how I would program something like this:

- I've already made a "Teleporter" part that can hold 6 kerbals.

- I want to program it so you can:

1. Select any other Teleporter within 1000km

2. Hit a button and make the Kerbals disappear from the sending pad and reappear at the recieveing pad after a short delay.

3. Have small chance of catastrophic failure. (I.E. Death of all teleportees)

How would I do that?

Cheers,

              UbuntuLinuxKing

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

Hi, I'm not a coder, but I do abuse other peoples code, and know my way around some of the mods I use and make things/parts for.   Now i've not come across anything that can really teleport anything anywhere/anytime with any precision , except for Kerbal Konstructs and Hyper edit,

With KK you can teleport any craft anywhere (seriously anywhere ) with kerbals onboard, to a precise, as defined by a transform location But only when launching a craft from VAB SPH,   Whereas Hyper edit can teleport anything anywhere while in game/not in editor mode, although precision landings are not, in my experience, that easy to achieve.  

It seems there's a bit of stuff there that may point you in the right direction,  while not the complete answer it's at least perhaps a clue as to how it can be done

[UbuntuLinuxKing]

49 minutes ago, SpannerMonkey(smce) said:

Hi, I'm not a coder, but I do abuse other peoples code, and know my way around some of the mods I use and make things/parts for.   Now i've not come across anything that can really teleport anything anywhere/anytime with any precision , except for Kerbal Konstructs and Hyper edit,

With KK you can teleport any craft anywhere (seriously anywhere ) with kerbals onboard, to a precise, as defined by a transform location But only when launching a craft from VAB SPH,   Whereas Hyper edit can teleport anything anywhere while in game/not in editor mode, although precision landings are not, in my experience, that easy to achieve.  

It seems there's a bit of stuff there that may point you in the right direction,  while not the complete answer it's at least perhaps a clue as to how it can be done

Thanks! I considered utilising Hyperedit or parts of it in some way, but it can't do that.

[HebaruSan]

I would take a look at Haystack and Targetron to figure out how to display a list of vessels within 1000 km. I assume they loop through FlightGlobals.Vessels and calculate distances, but I haven't checked, so they might have found something more clever. You of course would apply the further filter that a vessel should only be shown if it has one of your parts on it with an empty crew slot, which I think you can do by inspecting objects under Vessel.parts.

Beyond that you'd probably want a custom right-click menu option to open that list, which I don't know enough to advise on. And you'd need to be able to add and remove crew from your part, for which Part.AddCrewMember and Part.RemoveCrewMember look promising.

Have you considered making the teleportation fail if the two endpoints don't have a clear line of sight? That might be more fun than purely random.

(BTW, I think the device in that image is called a "transporter," if that matters.)

[pellinor]

13 minutes ago, HebaruSan said:

I would take a look at Haystack and Targetron to figure out how to display a list of vessels within 1000 km. I assume they loop through FlightGlobals.Vessels and calculate distances, but I haven't checked, so they might have found something more clever.

Or you require the player to set the destination vessel as target. Then you only need to check the distance, and don't need a UI.

Edited March 9, 2017 by pellinor

[UbuntuLinuxKing]

1 hour ago, HebaruSan said:

Have you considered making the teleportation fail if the two endpoints don't have a clear line of sight? That might be more fun than purely random.

(BTW, I think the device in that image is called a "transporter," if that matters.)

Thanks for the suggestions! I also know it's a transporter (I do watch Star Trek all the time) I just used "teleporter" to make the thread more approachable.