Suggestions for additions

[ollydoyle]

Hello

I have began playing elite again, I had it on a old pc and had created some similar to this using autohotkey with image matching and vjoy as the joystick emulator. I had this system, long range autopilot, fuel scooping and planet investigating(exploration system has changed now). I have since lost the code and knowledge of autohotkey scripts. But i do remember a lot of the pseudo code/logic of how i approach some of the issues which might be useful.

The uses of Python and OpenCV in this makes this far more robust and with greater potential

1:
Avoiding stars
Your current approach
You have sun_percent() which returns a value for the amount of screen covered in star, and over a threshold up pitch up until its reduced.
My old approach
Sample 9 regions of the screen,(I only had an asp explorer so these where hard coded positions matched up with the cock pit windows). Sampled for brightness and fly towards the dark area(A). I found this good for multi star system to get away safe. Also gives a escape direction that shortest from core stars

2:
Refueling
Your Current approach
On arrival drop speed to zero and wait, then escape via above method
My old approach
On Arrival at half speed, swing 90, maintain a tangential path while keeping temp as close to, but below 60. To maintain direction, I had a system to control the hud(B) and would select the scoop star as a target and just keep the target indicator at the top. It allows to scoop at max speed and has the potential to investigate planet when mixed with the targeting as you can maintain a distance from a planet and circle it

A: I think this system would be better as it more stable, but it may require a improved input system. I used vJoy to give granular control, where this used keys presses repeated. The repeating of key presses may also trip a anti cheat mechanism with ED

B: I think have it select target might be nice, as it could complete the exploring, and the new filtering on the nav hud might make it easier that it was for me

[skai2]

Hello friend,

Thank you very much for your valuable input. I just wanted to let you know I have in fact read it, and I think I can incorporate some of your ideas into this program, I've just been caught up in other projects and work to spare time on the autopilot for now.

Also, you are more than welcome to contribute yourself if you like. It would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again for the great input friend!