I know that this isn't going to be coming anytime soon but....
I've been thinking back to the first time I found out about MAS. We were talking about autopilots or autolanding or pilot assistant or crashing, you said you could make a system that could autoland a plane using this "new thing" you were working on. This turned out to be MAS.

Would it be possible to have MAS control pitch, roll, yaw and throttle? It would probably be limited to IVA only.
Maybe we could have a simple autopilot that can hold a heading, speed, Altitude and vertical speed?
Maybe we could have a complex sutopilot that can follow a flight plan or perform an autoland?
Maybe we could have a MAS flight director?
Maybe MAS limited player input to stop you stalling?
POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!!!!

I remember you mentioning something about an autoland system that could be done in MAS.
Would it be possible to control pitch, roll and yaw through a script?

Would it also be possible to 'limit' player input though a script.

I'm working on an airbus and I'd like to have a crack at the control laws.
It limits bank angle to 67_, pitch to 15_ down and 30* up and will try and prevent a stall by increasing engine power when speed is low.

That...

Some way to get this without the need for lots of configs.
Can we also get the ability to change its 'roll rate', meaning that the 'one' unit will move continuously and the 'tens' will only move when the tens change.

This has kept happening since i reinstalled KSP.
Everything is normal and then the game freezes for about 5 seconds. When it comes back, MAS is frozen completely. Monitors are stuck, alarms don't play or don't stop playing. When i try and hit a MASswitch, I get an initialization error and the log spams with:
[ERR 00:08:43.975] [MASFlightComputer] MASFlightComputer.FixedUpdate exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at AvionicsSystems.MASFlightComputer+Variable.ProcessObject (System.Object value) [0x00000] in :0
at AvionicsSystems.MASFlightComputer+Variable.Evaluate (MoonSharp.Interpreter.Script script) [0x00000] in :0
at AvionicsSystems.MASFlightComputer.FixedUpdate () [0x00000] in :0

Reloading the ship seems to fix it.

Just thought i'd let you know :D

Since VM no longer is involved in save/load behavior, I may be able to be more aggressive in enabling / disabling its FixedUpdate activity, which may reduce overhead if uncrewed vessels are nearby and loaded.

it only needs for convenience, so you can ignore and close this request.

Is it possible to add the ability to specify a comma separated list of objects in the "COLOR_SHIFT" module ?

for example

COLOR_SHIFT
        {
            name = Tumbler Mark
            transform = TumblerMarkObj, CircleMarkObj1, CircleMarkObj2, PointerObj, OuterScaleObj, InnerScaleObj
            passiveColor = 0,0,0,255
            activeColor = 145,145,145,255
            variable = fc.Conditioned(fc.GetPersistentAsNumber("Backlight"))
        }

Take a group of prioritized message texts (such as warnings, alerts, or even a preflight checklist). You want to be able to show all of them that are enabled, preferably without big gaps because several intermediary messages are 'off'. Right now, there's no reasonable way to do that.

Add a DYNAMIC_TEXT monitor component that has multiple sub-nodes, each of which contains text (either in-line, or a URI to a file) and a controlling variable / variable range. When a subcomponent is 'on', it is concatenated to the displayed text. When it's not, it's skipped, and the next enabled node will be concatenated next.

This class of node will be more costly in terms of computation, since it will need to rebuild the entire text structure whenever enabling variables change, but as long as it's used sparingly, it should be okay.

HullCam already has shaders / post-processing effects. Could those shaders be augmented to support some of the effects I've already written, and then use an API so MAS can use HullCam output directly? That would eliminate the need to carry the extra shaders in MAS, although it makes HullCam a dependency for external camera support.

Apologies if i ask silly or repetitive questions, ive just come back to this.
It doesn't appear that there is a FAR version for KSP 1.2 so all the MAS code that uses it is kind of pointless. I am interested to know however, what would far.GetFlapSetting() be equal to?
could we have a far.Availible() process so that we can turn off features that use FAR stuff to stop them from messing up.
ALSO: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dymnc03gaulhbbl/GPWS.lua?dl=0
This code is driving me nuts. Ive been looking through it again and again, there is something wrong with it and what ever is wrong is causing MAS to freeze and the log to spam with this:
[ERR 22:32:02.674] [MASFlightComputer] MASFlightComputer.FixedUpdate exception: System.ArgumentException: Unexpected variable type Unknown in mutableVariablesList
at AvionicsSystems.MASFlightComputer.FixedUpdate () [0x00000] in :0

Please let me know if you find anything obviously wrong

I've seen this consistently with some props - text is positioned wrong on a MASMonitor at startup, and it requires changing the text to get it to correct itself (which is a problem with immutable text). I've got a work-around in place now to pretend like I didn't generate the text initially, so we'll do it again on the next Update, but it would be nice to understand why it happens in the first place.

I really have no idea if this is MAS that is doing this but I managed to get a fairly consistent method of using KSP. Loading a flight now works. Going from a flight to space centre crashes the game instantly.

And I have to always 'Verify integrity of game cache' through steam before I can play it again. Steam always finds and replaces 1 file that 'failed to validate'

I have tried reinstalling KSP but the same thing started happening. I have no idea what could be causing it, but it seemed to start with MAS being installed.

Improvements needed for the Documentor documentation generator:

• Per-page table of contents (list of categories, with links to allow jumping to the category header).
• Overload (seealso) tag to make it "this mod is required for this feature to work". eg, DeltaV

I know that this is a shot in the dark and very unlikely to be possible at this stage but.....
Would it be possible to have variable text on a monitor that can be moved and ROTATED by other variables?

As referenced here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/150719-contract-configurator-broke-my-mod/

Have to replace assembly.GetExportedTypes() calls that are searching the entire list with a different method.

• Ability to enable all previously disabled RCS Ports
• Ability to set thrust limit for all RCS ports, like a "Thrust limit" for engines

This probably makes more sense as a separate plugin. Brainstorm features: time delay on exchange. Ranges based on actual signal rules - maybe emulate by adjusting transmitter rate based on relay strength. Other things?

Rewriting all of the Protractor-derived code from scratch, since Protractor is GPL, and I don't want to deal with that license in this project.

• Transfer Phase Angle
• Current Phase Angle
• Time to Transfer
• Transfer dV
• Ejection Angle (interplanetary transfer)
• Time to Ejection Angle
• Moon Ejection Angle (Oberth effect)
• Time to Moon Ejection Angle
• Altitude for Ejection

Plus some fixes / incomplete TODO tasks

• Current Phase Angle reports [0, 180), not [0, 360) because of Vector3d.Angle
• Need to account for high relative inclinations, or add a disclaimer.
• Need to handle targets orbiting other bodies (so the Oberth ejection angle can be computed)

Is the 'IMAGE' just supposed to be used an overlay?
Can there be a way to set the position, size and an enabling variable?

A request from Enceos on the forum: after docking, can I find a way to automatically jump back in to IVA when KSP kicks us out? From what I've gathered, we get kicked out of IVA when the docking craft is subsumed into the other craft. Is there a way to detect that, remember which IVA was active, and find it again?

I think what would have to happen is that the active IVA GUID is stored somewhere (a non-vessel / non-part module, and if I see that value is set, but we're not using the IVA camera, then we need to go back to IVA. What I don't know yet is how I could distinguish between the player changing camera views and KSP automatically kicking us out. That'll need to be investigated.

So animations can be initialized to the current value. Takes care of the funny behavior entering an IVA where various props move to their initial position.

One weakness in the text renderer (which was carried over from RPM) is that the text textures are at a specific size, and they show shimmering artifacts when rendered significantly smaller than native resolution, which happens easily. See if I can find a way to generate mipmaps from a copy of the Font texture, so render quality is improved.

Those airplane people like having radio navigation beacons and stuff like that on Kerbin. :)

Since KSP 1.2 purportedly will allow manual placement of waypoints, and support naming them, I expect to be able to grab on to that system to help manage the waypoints. Since there are multiple types of nav beacon, and they have frequencies, I'll need to encode that data in the name - such as VOR:[email protected] encoding a VOR-type beacon named AAA1 at the frequency 118.1.

I guess I should take some time to learn what sort of information will need to be represented as variables in-game. Most likely I'll need a proxy object to wrap around the waypoints so the Lua script can have things like

local nav1 = nil

function SetWaypointFromFrequency(frequency)
  nav1 = nav.GetWaypointFromFrequency(frequency)
  if nav1 ~= nil then
    -- Do whatever
  end
end

And so on.

List of functions:

• Bearing(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2): Bearing from position 1 to position 2.
• BearingFromVessel(lat, lon): Bearing from vessel position to lat/lon parameters.
• DestinationLatitude(lat, lon, range, bearing): Latitude that will be reached starting at lat/lon and going along bearing to range.
• DestinationLatitudeFromVessel(range, bearing): Latitude that is range meters along bearing.
• DestinationLongitude(lat, lon, range, bearing): Same as above, but longitude.
• DestinationLongitudeFromVessel(range, bearing): Save as above, but longitude.
• GroundDistance(lat1, lon2, lat2, lon2): Ground distance between coordinates, assuming sea level.
• GroundDistanceFromVessel(lat, lon): Ground distance to coordinate from vessel, assuming sea level.
• LineOfSight(altitude): Distance to horizon from altitude, assuming sea level horizon and no mountains.
• IntersectionOfTwoPaths(...)
• CrossTrackDistance(...)
• SlantDistance(lat1, lon1, alt1, lat2, lon2, alt2): Slant distance between two points.
• SlantDistanceFromVessel(lat, lon, alt): Slant distance to a point from the vessel.

Navigation Beacon Functions:

• SetRadioFrequency(radioId, frequency): Set radio number radioId to frequency.
• GetRadioFrequency(radioId): Get the frequency for radio radioId.
• GetDMESlantDistance(radioId): Get the slant distance to the beacon selected by radio radioId.
• GetILSLocalizerError(radioId): Get the horizontal error from the localizer signal.
• GetILSLocalizerErrorValid(radioId): Is the localizer error valid?
• GetILSGlideSlopeError(radioId, glideSlope): Get the vertical error from the specified glide slope.
• GetILSGlideSlopeErrorValid(radioId, glideSlope): Is the glide slope error valid?
• GetNavAidDME(radioId): Is the beacon a DME, and is it in range?
• GetNavAidBearing(radioId, relative): Get the bearing to the beacon.
• GetNavAidIdentifier(radioId): Get the three-letter code for the beacon.
• GetNavAidName(radioId): Get the name for the beacon.
• GetNavAidType(radioId): What type of beacon is this radio detecting?
• GetNDBBearing(radioId): Returns the vessel heading-relative bearing, if the beacon is NDB.
• GetVORDeviation(radioId, bearing): Returns the deviation from the desired bearing to/from, [-90, +90].
• GetVORApproach(radioId, bearing): Returns 1 (TO), 0 (NO SIGNAL), -1 (FROM).

Now that I've got MAS working well enough to operate most of an IVA, I'm getting some realistic performance results showing the cost of the MoonSharp Lua interpreter,

With 129 "variables", many of them using the simple "fc.GetVariable()" form, the FixedUpdate takes 1.73ms (with a millisecond-resolution timer - need to see if there is a higher precision option). That's about 1/10 of the FixedUpdate interval, which means it's too slow.

Strategies to consider:

1. Dynamic scaling of the update. Right now, MAS updates every variable every FixedUpdate, which makes everything very responsive (other than the yellow-timer lag occasionally). I could put together a heuristic that 'load balances' the updates by splitting them up into groups, and updating each group in a round-robin fashion. This will reduce the responsiveness of the variables, but that's been a 'feature' in RPM for a while.

2. Selective use of Lua. MAS makes every variable a Lua microscript. If I write a basic parser (yuck), I can decompose a variable and figure out which ones are simple wrappers around callbacks to the proxy classes. Instead of round-tripping through Lua, I can split the simple cases out and use delegates. It complicates initializing a variable, but it will cut the cost of updating it, which is the important issue.

3. Dig into the MoonSharp code. Branch the code and see if I can find where the garbage is being generated. Get some advice from some of the more C#-savvy modders on where the large !/$ areas are.

Ultimately, I am sure I'll try 1 and 2; there is the additional note that there is only so much I can realistically do, since Lua is an interpreted language, so it will be slower than pure C#. I suppose there's always trying to do something like learning IL and seeing if I can write a Lua->IL transformation, but that's way down the road when I get bored...

The Unity LineRenderer class online advertises a SetPositions(Vector3[]) method, but KSP's current flavor of Unity doesn't include that method, so I've got a loop over the variables instead. When KSP 1.2 comes out, see if the updated Unity edition takes care of that problem.

When targeting a planet or moon, subtract the planet's radius (clamping to 0). That way, for instance, a munar intercept with a closest approach 73km from the center of the Mun will report as 0 (indicating impact) instead of suggesting a periapsis altitude of 73km.

Sorry about the constant silly questions, once I get the hang of it... there will probably still be loads of questions, just not as dumb.
I need to make an alarm for my IVA. It doesn't need a light or anything, just a sound to play.

... how do I do that?

This will be a major undertaking. Time to start making notes. The goal is user-configured menus. How I get there is the trick...

First ideas:

• Something similar to the way MASMonitor pages are done - that is, each menu is named.
• Each MAS_MENU contains one or more things describing what's in the menu, and what it does, such as MENU_ITEM for a single entry.
• Each MENU_ITEM contains text, an optional "right hand side text" (like the range indicators for vessels in RPM), a variable to disable the entry, and an action. There should possibly also be a variable to enable the action, separate from the disable variable - I'm thinking of the case in the vessel targeting menu to select a docking port on a tracked vessel.
• A MULTI_ITEM menu - this entry will be used for lists, and it will require an iterator limit variable and variables to control what's displayed. Some ideas would be fc.NumVesselsInSoI() that returns the number of other vessels in the current SoI, and fc.VesselInSoIName(index) that will return the name of the specified vessel. This feature needs more thought...
• Key presses will map to persistents (that is, Home, Prev, Next, Enter, Back, etc will be tracked by persistent key transitions). Something like fc.SetPersistent("MonitorKey%PROPID%", 1) on key press, and fc.SetPersistent("MonitorKey%PROPID%", 0) on key release; different numbers can indicate different keys. The alternative is a unique persistent per key, like MonitorKeyHome%PROPID% for the Home key, MonitorKeyEnter%PROPID% for Enter, etc. That increases the number of persistent variables that are required, which also means more overhead for MASFlightComputer to track changes.

KSP 1.2 allows mods to add a page to the options/difficulty menu. MAS should add a page to give the player access to the config file options without editing the config file.

Couldn't find these variables In the wiki and it would be very help to be able to use them.

Also, something is wrong with the list of variables in the wiki.

I tried to do keep things simple and do an unbounded slerp - but that doesn't work right. Make the longPath path smarter (see if it really needs longPath), and use a midpoint quaternion for the cases that do, and treat the rotation as two piece-wise actions.

Sorry to have to keep asking. Is there anyway to trigger something like 'far.IncreaseFlapSetting()' in lua?
While im here, do you know whats wrong with this?
PROP
{
name = AC_K320_Control_FlapsCtrl

MODEL
{
    model = ASET/ASET_Avionics/ModernPack/ASET_FlapsCtrl/ASET_FlapsCtrl
    texture = ASET_FlapsCtrlDiffuse,ASET/ASET_Avionics/ModernPack/ASET_FlapsCtrl/ASET_FlapsCtrlDiffuse
}

MODULE
{
    name = MASComponent
    COLLIDER_EVENT
    {
        name = PLUS
        collider = FlapsLeverUP_collObj
        onClick = fc.AddPersistentClamped("AC_A320_FlapLever",1,0,3)
    }

    COLLIDER_EVENT
    {
        name = MINUS
        collider = FlapsLeverDown_collObj
        onClick = fc.AddPersistentClamped("AC_A320_FlapLever",-1,0,3)
    }

    ROTATION
    {
        name = Lever position
        transform = FlapsLeverLoc
        variable = fc.GetPersistent("AC_A320_FlapLever")
        startRotation = 0,0,0 
        endRotation = 21,0,0
        range = 0.0,3.0
        blend = true
        speed = 10.0
    }

    AUDIO_PLAYER
    {
        name = Clicker
        sound = ASET/ASET_Avionics/ModernPack/Sounds/FlapsClick01
        volume = 1.0
        trigger = BOTH
        variable = fc.GetPersistent("AC_A320_FlapLever")
        range = 0.5,1.5
    }

    AUDIO_PLAYER
    {
        name = Clicker
        sound = ASET/ASET_Avionics/ModernPack/Sounds/FlapsClick01
        volume = 1.0
        trigger = BOTH
        variable = fc.GetPersistent("AC_A320_FlapLever")
        range = 2.5,3.5
    }
}

}

This stops the database from reloading and throws this:

[LOG 17:05:33.088] PartLoader: Compiling Internal Prop 'AdvancedCockpit/K320/Control_FlapLever/AC_K320_Control_FlapsCtrl'
[EXC 17:05:33.093] NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PartLoader.ReplaceTextures (UnityEngine.GameObject model, System.Collections.Generic.List1 textureNames, System.Collections.Generic.List1 newTextures)
PartLoader.CompileModel (.UrlConfig cfg, .ConfigNode partCfg, Single scaleFactor, .AvailablePart partInfo)
PartLoader.LoadInternalProp (.UrlConfig urlConf)
PartLoader+c__Iterator4B.MoveNext ()

It's very likely that I will have more questions in the future, would you prefer for me to open seperate issues for each question or put all my questions in one issue?

Look at MASIMechJeb line 987.

Greetings,

Markus

It provides a landing predictor that might be an alternative to using MechJeb. Need a way to control which one gets priority.

I asked about this in RPM but it was too difficult to do.
A feature that I would REALLY love to see in MAS is the ability to get readings from individual engines, fuel tanks, landing gear, etc...

The original idea was to set each prop with an ID like the cameras.
Problem is that what if two crafts with props that are the same ID dock together?

Instead of setting each prop its individual ID, assign them to a group that can contain multiple parts.
The variables of the groups should be averages of all the parts in the group. (eg. engine thrust, gear position, fuel...)
When 2 ships that have part groups dock, the parts from both ships go into the same group.

Dunno if it would be that but please can we have the RADARALTVERTSPEED from RPM in MAS?
I want to start working on a GPWS system and this variable is very important.

I use and create the canonical textual expression everywhere - it should be a prepared component of the Expression object, so I don't repeatedly create it elsewhere.

On the RPM issue you said that I could use this as a remap variable:

function Remap(value, bound1, bound2, map1, map2)
value = math.max(bound1, math.min(bound2, value))
local iLerp = (value - bound1) / (bound2-bound1)
return map1 + iLerp * (map2 - map1)
end

I suspect that I don't know what I'm doing and I'm not using it right. My script is like this:

function Remap(value, bound1, bound2, map1, map2)
value = math.max(bound1, math.min(bound2, value))
local iLerp = (value - bound1) / (bound2-bound1)
return map1 + iLerp * (map2 - map1)
end

function ACSkyPointerDisplace()
if 65 < ACRollAngle() < 90 then
-- Are we subjected to high gravity? We might have some flicker
-- Original design used RANDOM between 0.2 and 0.4, but since RANDOM is
-- a uniform distribution, RANDOM > 0.8 has the same effect.
return Remap(ACRollAngle(),65,90,0,1)
if 90 < ACRollAngle() < 115 then
return Remap(ACRollAngle(),90,65,1,0)
else
return 0
end
end

What am I doing wrong?

Finally got things working well enough to dock a vessel using MAS IVA ... things behave badly upon docking, however.

The optimizations I put in for handling rotations causes the system to break down if an angle over 360 degrees is used. At 720 degrees, the mid-rotation quaternion causes 0 rotations to take place, and, by inspection, it looks like any angle over 360 will likewise have undesired effects. With the modulo parameter, it is possible to work around the problem, but I may want to address big rotations at some point (maybe falling back to the old RPM way of interpolating the angles as Euler angles, and then converting to quaternions).

Currently, I use the VesselModule to marshal persistent values from all child MASFlightComputer modules. However, that's not working well, since there are all kinds of games that I have to play with docking. Maybe I should instead use a single ScenarioModule, and have the MASFlightComputer modules interact with it. I'll need to look into timing (who gets created first, who gets destroyed first).

EDIT: More reading suggests ScenarioModule isn't going to work, because it's not loaded until after the PartModule.OnStart has fired. However, I already have MASLoader, and it looks like there Game OnLoad/OnSave events can be hooked, so I may be able to make my own "Scenario"-like to handle it.

Line with given Start and End points, with adjustable width (if possible), positive/negative/ zero color and variable, "oneShot" option, variable for show/ don't show, refreshRate

As the possible options:
"Multi-line"
which is drawn based on a given set of points. I think 10 points will be more than enough. You probably already guessed that in the first place, this feature will need to draw a route for the selected waypoint

"Styles"
possibly different rendering styles, such as dashed, dotted, double line. I do not know what capabilities can provide for this Unity

"Predefined primitives"
such as a rectangle (a special case of multi-line), circle (center, radius)

Add stuff to track active / passive radiator status, and control them.

Maybe add an optional module for making thermal relevant to IVA pods (a part module that adds heat based on occupancy, power usage, and other factors).

• Radiator deploy (for deployable active radiators)
• Variable reporting radiator saturation

So volume can be adjusted, and maybe more than one sound option.

Take a vessel in flight, switch to another vessel, and some of the text placement is wrong. It looks like upper / lower aligned Arial font is affect, but I need to investigate it to be sure.

Currently, it uses the module index, which does not account for missing modules (say, from a mod DLL that's not installed), so it scans the wrong node in the config file. It looks like it needs to be slightly more robust.

Tracking the KSP 1.2 changes:

• Vessel.ActiveResources is gone.
• Vessel.GetActiveResources() is gone.
• ModuleRCS.Enable() is gone.
• ModuleSolarPanel.panelState is gone.
• ModuleSolarPanel.panelStates is gone.
• DefaultDateTimeFormatter.GetEarthDateFromUT() is gone - implemented it myself.
• DefaultDateTimeFormatter.GetKerbinDateFromUT() is gone - implemented it myself.
• VesselModule.OnLoad changes.
• Part.Resources.list is gone.
• ModuleGenerator.outputList is gone.
• ModuleAlternator.outputResources is gone.
• Unity 5.2.4 shaders don't work in KSP 1.2.
• No KSP PartTools for KSP 1.2, so no automated AssetBundle generation.

Is it possible?

Right now, MASActionAudioPlayer attaches its audio source to the prop's gameObject. But that doesn't work if there are multiple audio sources on the same prop. Changed the audio component to create an empty game object (attached to the prop's gameObject), and to add the audio player to that, instead.

I asked this about RPM before but I suspect it would be more practical to have it in MAS.
Having a value go smoothly from 0 to 1. It would function like the 'max rate change' but for the variable instead of the animation.

If not that, some sort of timer system.
Let me know what you think.

• Ability to "Toggle Torque" for the current Pod and for all reaction wheels except the current Pod
• Reaction Wheel status: "-1 - Disabled", "0 - Idle", "1 - Running" for the current Pod and for all reaction wheels except the current Pod
• optionally, the ability to set a limit of Torque force. from 1 (Max) to 0, like a "Thrust limit" for engines