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# Implementation Docs
## Required functionality
- Achieve target angles for tilt values (target is 0)
- Achieve target values for lateral velocity (when no thrust is being applied, 0)
- Achieve target values for for/aft velocity when thrust is applied
- When direction indicators are referenced and autopilot is on, keep all direction indicator values beside "fore" at 0
- A monitor that displays the following values:
- Directional thrust values (0-15 & 0-100%)
- Rotational thrust values (0-15 & 0-100%)
- Velocity values
- Altitude values
- Navigation target values (if applicable)
- Autopilot controls
## Create: Avionics relevant Peripheral methods
When Create: Avionics is installed, all sensors get direct peripherals for CC:T
Relevant peripherals:
- Velocity Sensor
- Navigation Table
- Gimbal Sensor
- Altitude Sensor
- Analog Transmission
### Altitude Sensor implementations
> Peripheral ID: altitude_sensor
- `getHeight()`: get the sensor's Y coordinate
- `getAirPressure()`: get the local air pressure at the sensor's altitude
- `getVerticalSpeed()`: get the sensor's vertical speed (positive is ascending, negative is descending)
### Navigation Table implementations
> Peripheral ID: navigation_table
- `hasTarget()`: Check whether the table has resolved a target
- `getTargetType()`: returns a string target type ID, or nil if no item is held
- `getTargetMetadata()`: returns per-type metadata for the target.
> Metadata schema:
>
> - `simulated:compass`: `kind` ("lodestone"|"spawn"), `sublevel_id` (string, lodestone only)
> - `sublevel_id` is the tracker UUID
> - `simulated:recovery_compass`: `placer_uuid` (string, optional)
> - `placer_uuid` is absent until a player has placed the compass into the table
> - `simulated:map`: `map_id` (number, optional)
> - `map_id` is absent if the held map carries no MAP_ID data component (e.g. a blank map)
> - `simulated:magnet`: ---
> - static target (10 blocks north of the table)
- `getRelativeAngle()`: get the relative angle to the target, in degrees
- `getRelativeAngleRad()`: get the relative angle to the target, in radians
- `getBearing()`: get the forward-error bearing to the target, in degrees
- Forward-error bearing:
- 0 -> target is straight ahead of the blocks arrow (direct fore)
- +90 -> target is to the right (direct starboard)
- -90 -> target is to the left (direct port)
- +-180 -> target is directly behind (direct aft)
- `getBearingRad()`: get the forward-error bearing to the target, in randians
- `getDistanceToTarget()`: get the distance to the resolved target
- `getClosureRate()`: gets the rate at which the table is closing on the target in blocks/sec (positive is approaching, negative is leaving)
- `getVerticalOffsetToTarget()`: gets the vertical offset between the target and the table (the difference of `target.y - self.y`)
- `getOrientation()`: gets the host sub-level's orientation as a quaternion {x, y, z, w}
> Matches JOML's constructor and the convention used by CC quaternion libraries (e.g. TechTastic/Advanced-Math)
- `getHeading()`: Gets the host sub-level's heading in degrees
> 0 degrees refers to world +Z, minecraft south
- `getHeadingRad()`: gets the host sub-level's heading in radians
### Gimbal Sensor
> Peripheral ID: gimbal_sensor
- `getAngles()`: get the contraption's pitch and roll angles in degrees
- xAngle: rotation about body-X (pitch). 0 degrees is aligned with world-up
- zAngle: rotation about body-Z (roll). 0 degrees is aligned with world-up
- returns {xAngle, zAngle}
- `getAnglesRad()`: get the contraption's pitch and roll angles in radians
- `getAngularRates()`: get the contraption's angular velocity in degrees/sec
- wx: pitch rate
- wy: yaw rate
- wz: roll rate
- returns {wx, wy, wz}
- `getAngularRatesRad()`: get the contraption's angular velocity in radians/sec
- `getGravity()`: gets the local gravity vector in body frame, in m/s^2
- returns {gx, gy, gz}
- `getLinearAcceleration()`: get the contraption's proper acceleration in body frame, in m/s^2
- returns {ax, ay, az}
### Velocity Sensor
> Peripheral ID: velocity_sensor
- `getVelocity()`: gets the velocity component along the sensor's axis
- returns signed velocity in m/s
> note: returns 0 if the magnitude is below 0.05 m/s
- `getAxis()`: returns the body-frame axis the sensor measures along
- returns string "x", "y", and "z"
### Analog Transmission
> Peripheral ID: analog_transmission
>
> These are used as controllers for rotationally-powered thruster blocks
- `getSignal()`: get the current signal driving the transmission ratio
- returns an integer between 0 and 15
- `setSignal(signal)`: set the signal driving the transmission ratio
> Note: flips externallyControlled, even when signal == current
>
> The documented way to get control without changing the value is calling `setSignal(getSignal())`.
- `releaseSignal()`: Release external control and return signal driving to redstone
- `isExternallyControlled()`: Check whether the transmission is currently under script control
- `getRotationModifier()`: get the current rotation modifier (output:input speed ratio)
- `getOutputSpeed()`: get the output shaft speed
- `getOutputTheoreticalSpeed()`: get the output shaft's theoretical (target) speed
- `getOutputStressImpact()`: get the output-side stress impact (post-ratio kinetic accounting)
- `isOversaturated()`: check whether the transmission is oversaturated
- `getAxis()`: get the transmission's shaft axis name
- returns the axis as string "x", "y", or "z"
- `getSelfId()`: get this block's ID
> Note: other peripherals' getSourceId or getSubnetworkAnchorId will return this ID when they refer to this block
- `getSourceId()`: get the ID of the block immediately driving this one, or nil if theis block has no source
- `getSubnetworkAnchorId()`: get the ID of this block's speed-zone anchor -- the gearshift/clutch/speed controller/generator that defines the start of this speed zone.
> Note: Two blocks share an anchor if they're in the same speed zone. A generator or split-shaft returns its own `getSelfId()`
- `getNetworkId()`: get the ID of this block's kinetic network.
- `getKind()`: returns one of "generator", "split_shaft", "consumer", or "passthrough"
- `getSpeed()`: get the local rotational speed at this block.
- `hasSource()`: check whether this block is connected to a kinetic source
- `isOverstressed()`: check whether this block's network is overstressed
- `getStressImpact()`: get the stress impact of this block on its network. zero for sources and pure conduit blocks
- `getStressContribution()`: get this block's contribution to its network's stress capacity. Non-zero for sources only
## Peripheral Notes
- Analog Transmissions signal speed changes:
- 0: no change from input speed
- 14: maximum change from input speed
- 15: input and output rotational networks are decoupled (generally means no output rotation)
- All that is to say, when being driven properly, the minimum speed is at signal 15, and increasing the speed goes from the lowest nonzero RPM at signal 0 to the highest at signal 14.
## Implementation
On startup, call these methods:
- All Analog Transmission's `getSelfId()`
- All rotationally controlled thruster's `getSubnetworkAnchorId()`
If the ID returned by a thruster's `getSubnetworkAnchorId()` is also returned by an analog transmission's `getSelfId()`, associated that transmission with the thruster
Also upon startup, check for a configuration file with other thruster's peripherals, or redstone-controlled thrusters
Every cycle:
- Check for new machines in the network. If new machines are found, initialize them similarly to the startup
- Gimbal Sensor `getAngles()`, `getAngularRates()`, and `getLinearAcceleration()`
- Navigation Table `getHeading()`, `hasTarget()`, and depending on the output of `hasTarget()`:
- if true, call `getBearing()`, `getDistanceToTarget()`, `getClosureRate()`, and `getVerticalOffsetToTarget()`
- if false, continue to the next sensors
- Altitude Sensor `getHeight()`, `getAirPressure()`, `getVerticalSpeed()`
- Velocity Sensor `getAxis()`, `getVelocity`
- Poll input signal strengths for global downwards thrust, and fore and aft thrust