Hydrogen Thruster Control Script

I know I've seen a script in the Workshop that optimally controls hydrogen thrusters for a flight from a planet to space in such a way to minimize hydrogen consumption, but I now can't find it. Can anyone help by posting a link?

 

I had a suspicion that the VTOL thruster controls (auto controls thrusters on a rotor subgrid) would do it.. did a little searching in the workshop...

... but then i found this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2030693159&searchtext=h2+thruster+smoke

... and must now immediately go play with it instead. Sorry.

I dont speak C# very well, but such a script would seem simple. Something like:
-Increase thrust override 10%
- check current speed- is >98.00?
- If so, then reduce thrust override -10%
- Loop

then it would do what a pilot driving the thing up there on overrides would be doing... reducing the thrust override to just keep the ship barely pushed at max speed (reducing it as gravity decreases)

 

That's the thruster smoke mod, and not quite what I'm looking to find. Thanks, anyway...

 

https://github.com/Whiplash141/SpaceEngineersScripts/blob/master/Public/thrust speed limiter v3.cs

try that.

Edit I use a slightly modified version all the time.

 

Awesome! Thanks!!

 

Don't thank me, thank whiplash.. last time I looked this was not in the workshop,
I think there may be a more complex Whip script that includes the same speed limit function..

 

Blarg's Ascent Cruise Control script (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1316048908) is the best one I found so far, but the "swap" feature to tell it to use rear thrusters instead of bottom thrusters doesn't seem to work. I designed my ship with stronger rear thrusters than bottom thrusters, so I'm a bit bummed that it's DOA. I'll keep looking though.

 

I've only found one other: nicknds's NDS Ascent Control script (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1833381113). This script works really well to utilize the most powerful thrusters all the time. So, for my new ship, it uses the bottom thrusters (because of the largo atmospheric thrusters) until they start to lose efficiency at altitude, then it rotates the ship on its end and uses the rear thrusters to complete the journey to space. It works wonderfully except that it does not switch off unnecessary thrusters during the ascent. As an example, if I use the script to exit the Earthlike planet's gravity well, I consume 58% of the hydrogen in my tanks, but if I manually fly the ship, systematically switching off thruster banks along the way, I only consume 30% of the hydrogen in the tanks.

Can anyone help with a script that'll optimize the ascent to space?

 

I really wish autopilot did this. Been a while since I used it but I seem to remember it looking like it was blasting half the ship thrusters at full power continuously. Seems like autopilot should be smart enough to use fuel efficiently.

 

I wish, I wish, I wish. And I wish more that I had the time (and inclination) to learn the idiosyncrasies of C++ so I could just write the script myself. Sigh.

 

Did you try manually disabling reverse thrusters while script is running?

 

The NDS script doesn't fire the reverse thrusters at all during the ascent phase, at least, it didn't look like they were firing to me.

 

Gotcha.. It was a shot in the dark... I know some other pilot scripts fire all the thrusters like all the time.. I thought maybe yours might have coasting issues too...