Release two: The rockets all have harmless side thrusters to avoid accidentally killing the cargo on exit (thanks Asatruer).

This mod contain the five standard delivery craft with a few simple scripts that improve stability drastically through the use of PID controllers. The scripts are only active in AI-mode and use the craft's engines, rather than changing the rotation and angular velocity of the craft directly.



With these improvements, especially the rockets are significantly harder to shoot down. The original craft AI is most likely implemented using similar methods, but I suspect that it was purposely built to handle poorly so craft are easy to shoot down. (Edit: I was apparently wrong)


Please feel free to use my code for whatever you want.

I can not describe the awesomeness this has.
can someone make me one to replace the normal ones? please?

Tested.

These things stabilize even when their engines or hulls have been shot to hell (but not destroyed)

Nice work.

It does as a matter of fact, shoot a dropship engine and try driving it! the exhaust pushes it.

Hah I wish i can say I made the current implementation intentionally shitty...

That's impressive though! It motivates me to bump the task of making the AI update function exposed to lua.. ie if it is defined, the C++ implementation will be overriden and the Lua one used instead. I don't think I'll be porting the nightmarish C++ functions to lua myself though.. might release the source for them so someone else can tackle it though.. hint hint wink wink

Yeah, I recommended you take a look at some of Abdul's other AI fixes, Data. He's really outdone himself since he joined the forums!

Like the Independant Combat Droid,
or the Dummy Vehicles

Abdul, I think you are being recruited...

Abdul is well-known for pulling stuff like this off.

This has not disappointed me.

This is genius.

Now to practice this until I can just cartwheel over and over with a rocket.

He has proved once again that he is the god of Lua.

This is amazing.

Apparently you weren't around before rockets gibbed as they do now.
Stuff like this happened if you shot a rocket enough.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/ ... ump003.jpg

Whatever, close enough.
Anyways, Data, look out for Abdul's other mods.

Fantastic!
I did a little testing and most of it performs extraordinarily, except the Dummy Rocklet killed nearly all actors it dropped by burning their heads off with the top stabilizing thrusters.

Every rocket I've seen since I applied this just uses the side thrusters repeatedly and thrusts itself into the ground.
They don't usually die outright, but it's a bit disconcerting.

Could it be something to do with the fact that I applied it to the base.rte ones instead?
I didn't notice any other changes in your upgraded versions, but...