Is there a way to get the script used, maybe with instructions what is needed for it to run properly, without the drone, so you could create your own drone designs for it? with taking that drone as a base and remodel it i see the issue of accidentaly removing vital parts needed for it to function correctly, esp if you were to reshape it to a smaller drone design.
Multiplanetary drone carriers that are self replicating and restock themselves from a fleet of automated mining drones while they get directed back into battle to continue until the entire planet is mined into its bones would be epic until they release star mining Additional content which engages the player mining with advanced materials into the sun while dodging solar flares and enemie Sun Pirates and the Space aliens once warp drives getupgraded and they allow the transition between other stary systems. they could really continue with think kind of gameplay into the ends of the universe! we would be to old to play and there would be a further into the cosmos update. VR , id love to be welding and shooting and mining in vr with space engineers.
So you could theoretically make large grid warships that optionally be made into drone ships? Like say frigate typed such as a artillery frigate hanging in the back. A support frigate which would have heavy Point Defence Weapon/Anti Small Craft armament, additional hanger/docking capabilities to support other craft (including drones) and additional manufacturing systems. A heavy frigate with heavy armament, armour and shields (if a shield mod is installed). Many other types and stuff could be created.
lol even setting the path for every one of my drones, it seems the controller just can't handle more than 4 or 5 of them. 1 out of my 6 xb-2's successfully docked on a carrier with connectors on the sides of the ship spaced 5 apart from each other. The other 5 either nosed in and rammed it, or just smacked the carrier. They followed the pre contact path just fine, but they just can't seem to get it together to dock.
Looks amazing. Works great with small block ships. I'm having an issue while attaching the control components to a large block ship. It simply won't acttach. What am I imissing?
hi, i copied all the parts to make my own drone. Everything works except docking, when I give the order it goes to position itself next to me and keeps the docking order infinitely. What handles docking? I am looking for a way to find where the problem comes from. (I renamed the connector and group of course).
You can use a projector instead of copy/paste. A link to the large grid control module is in the description. The setup is exactly the same as with the small grid module.
Can this work with my drones or other drones from the steam workshop? Also I want to have a kind of bomber ship that has artillery but no smaller weapons. Or a torpedo bomber that shoots missiles and can kamikaze into an enemy ship.
This can work with any drone that has the AutoPillock script installed (the one from the drone). If you want to setup your own drone you can do that by reverse-engineering of xb-2 as the script was never officialy released.
There are 3 pb blocks on the drone, you can cut them and paste to yours or copy/paste block names, custom data and the scripts. Rename the gyroscope, remote control, connector and a timer block with it's actions. It is very important to place the remote control and main gyro in the correct direction, otherwise your drone maybe flipping upside down or flying sideways.
Are you able to set a different DOCK and UNDOCK pattern? I am designing a carrier ship where there is an approach path through the front, and a departure point out the sides.
@@Pro100tv9 Darn. I was trying to make the Tiger's Claw (From Wing Commander) where it has ships enter the runway on the front and exit out the sides. I was hoping to automate fighters landing and departing to form up on the carrier. Know of any scripts that would allow this?
Absolutely, just remember to add all weapons to the default group (I believe the name of that group is coaxial-weapons), and keep the original naming and orientation of the key components - gyro and remote.
This looks really cool! My only question is this: is it possible to do the formations with a fleet of large grid drone ships instead of small grid drones?
Would it be possible for drones to be in formation with my ship but dock to a different ship? I would like to make wingmen for when I use a fighter, but I would not like to have a bunch of connectors on my fighter.
Yes, place the control module on both - your fighter and the carrier, then disable the carrier's module and form up with the fighter. When you'll want to dock the drones disable the module on the fighter and turn on the module on the carrier. Then form up and dock the drones. I think it should work.
Xb-1 formation script is very possesive and takes control over all gyroscopes. Unfortunately there's not too much space to adjust that. It would not allow the other script to do the job.
Is it possible for you to make a video on setting up fighters with the script that you made? I have a few ideas and i'd love to use a few other ships as drones. Please and thank you!
I made it to work by reverse-engineeting the ASF Whornet, for which you can find a link in the description. The process is pretty simple, just rename the vital components and it should work. Later on you can adjust the forward direction etc. and play with the script settings to adjust the drone to your needs
Hey @The_Effect, I believe that waypoints are based on the position relative to the connector. When the carrier moves the drone will do the movement relative to the carrier and proceed with the docking
Great video! Quick question, how do you get multiple drones to connect to different connectors. I assumed it was just renaming both the Main and Drone connectors to dockb as an example and recompiling, but that does not seem to work.
ahh never mind, they all get the same name as its searching for Contains docka. But it doesn't look like you can actually assign a dock to each ship unless I am missing something.
@@Syngather That's correct, all the connectors should be named docka. The drone does not hookup to the specific connector but you may set a specific landing pattern for each drone (which will help to prevent occasional collisions).
@@Pro100tv9 Sadly that doesn't seem to be helping, even when I park them over one spot, they try to fly to the other side of the ship to go to another spot. I have 8 available connectors. Oh well, would have been nice lol
I think you will be able to change the turrets for modded (remember to change the name as well) but I`m not sure if the modded weapons will work at all.
@@Pro100tv9 alright, trying to make my own drone and it is not going as well as I’d like since it’s small. I’ll probably just wait for the Artemis script to come out with its drone feature before making it
@@Pro100tv9 Fair enough. I do some streaming and I can easily host a server if your ever interested in playing! I look forward to seeing your next video.
1. No, that's cheerkin's AutoPillock 2. You don't need to. The drone uses turrets to get the target's coords, so even if it moves it will still be tracked.
Hey, yes, all the instructions are in the item description on steam workshop. If you want to create your own drone you'd need to do some reverse engineering cuz XB is based on the custom script.
Yes, you need to setup waypoint for the first drone, the copy/paste or (if in survival) BP it and print. Please note that if you`ll set it up that way, some accidental collisions may occur.
@@adopehipster6972 PB CustomData or manual run with argument. Read FAQ on drone page. I mentioned set-vectors command that would set GPS coordinates for drone to attack, instead of using "all fancy stuff".
Without scripts, it's very difficult to do AI-controlled drones. The best you can do is hijack the remote block from an NPC. I believe LSG did a video on that a while back edit: this video: th-cam.com/video/4Gdk0B5oR7o/w-d-xo.html
@@Pro100tv9 some players consider scripting to be like mods, like its cheating or something and because its so difficult to grasp for people who dont know programming, they think its too much of a hassle
You can either select "pre-contact" (that will disable the AI core of the drone(the thrusters will still be On)) or just group all the drone's thrusters and disable them manually.
That's a good question. You could add a conveyor sorter behind the drone's connector (replace instead of conveyor part), add preffered filters to it and set "drain all". That would fill the drone with ammunition until it's full. Rockets for reloadable rocket launchers would still need to be filled separately due to their size.
Hey how do we move the green blocks and place them on our ship do we have to use a merger block? I'm in survival and was just wondering if anyone had done this in survival?
It'd be the best to blueprint green part in creative and then use projector in sirvival or just use a merger if that's more comfortable for you. It can also be placed on a rotor/piston/hinge but it may clang this way.
This particular drone can't, but cheerkin released a script called "AutoPillock - universal flight automaton" that can do that and much more. You can easily find it on workshop
There`s a large grid control module over here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760981943 The setup is exactly the same as the small substitute. You can also place the small module on rotor or connector.
Here's the link for the large control module: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760981943 The setup is exectly the same as with the small substitute.
It should, just remember to recompile the PB blocks after changing thrusters and try to keep it above 1500m so it doesn't hit the ground while orbiting
can you make this drone simpler? from your explanation it seems that this is not a script but a mod, because I am a pure survival player, I only use scripts to do activities. if you copy a block like this it's impossible to use it in survival mode hehe
The work and quality of the things you produce is astonishing! I love it.
Learning stuff i didn't know i needed! Wonderful guide, as always
Thank you this was just what i needed to get my carrier going.
I remember when we got cameras and remote control blocks. Now, the players and modders can do this. AMAZING!
Thanks for the in depth tutorial, awesome style.
Fabulous - love your videos!
Thanks for the guide, Pro :)
That's just so brilliantly well done. I'm very impressed!
Can you make a tutorial for setting up your own drone?
Perfect, now I just need a large speaker to announce, "Carrier has Arrived!" when I warp in from a jump
With a brief look at your blueprints menu you seem to like the colour orange lol, great video and thank you for making this
Nice design on the XB-2, cheap enough to be lost yet strong enough to take a few small hits from anti-missile and drone weapons
You videos are crazy good. Keep em up!
This lady is very intelligent to be able to do all this scripting etc and everything else she does.
Thank you so much! I really like and appreciate your work. Keep it up!
Wish the game creators will learn from you this could add so much content besides pvp
Marvelous! I'm going to have to implement this asap!
Here’s to the algorithm, you’ve been a big help thanks for the great content.
Amazing work, I know I'm going to have fun playing around with this.
Is there a way to get the script used, maybe with instructions what is needed for it to run properly, without the drone, so you could create your own drone designs for it?
with taking that drone as a base and remodel it i see the issue of accidentaly removing vital parts needed for it to function correctly, esp if you were to reshape it to a smaller drone design.
Pretty sure its Rdav's script I forget the name but its something like fleet command...
Now it's time to UNLEASH THE SWARM!!
Time to form the fleet I must take on the Klang drone factory ship
Nice guide! I love to see dynamic approach waypoints actually used. Sorry for making you include "gatle his ASS off" into your video lmao
Multiplanetary drone carriers that are self replicating and restock themselves from a fleet of automated mining drones while they get directed back into battle to continue until the entire planet is mined into its bones would be epic until they release star mining Additional content which engages the player mining with advanced materials into the sun while dodging solar flares and enemie Sun Pirates and the Space aliens once warp drives getupgraded and they allow the transition between other stary systems. they could really continue with think kind of gameplay into the ends of the universe! we would be to old to play and there would be a further into the cosmos update. VR , id love to be welding and shooting and mining in vr with space engineers.
So you could theoretically make large grid warships that optionally be made into drone ships? Like say frigate typed such as a artillery frigate hanging in the back. A support frigate which would have heavy Point Defence Weapon/Anti Small Craft armament, additional hanger/docking capabilities to support other craft (including drones) and additional manufacturing systems. A heavy frigate with heavy armament, armour and shields (if a shield mod is installed). Many other types and stuff could be created.
Correct. You could have entire fleet of drones of basically any size.
This is amazing, do you think you could do a Space Engineers coding video?
In SDS-OS you can operate using WASD buttons
Hey Mentor, for some reason I couldn't get it to work with wasd input.
lol even setting the path for every one of my drones, it seems the controller just can't handle more than 4 or 5 of them. 1 out of my 6 xb-2's successfully docked on a carrier with connectors on the sides of the ship spaced 5 apart from each other. The other 5 either nosed in and rammed it, or just smacked the carrier. They followed the pre contact path just fine, but they just can't seem to get it together to dock.
You use SDS-OS for menu with ASF I think, very nice setup!
Finally! Was waiting for this!!! :)
these are fantastic!
Looks amazing. Works great with small block ships. I'm having an issue while attaching the control components to a large block ship. It simply won't acttach. What am I imissing?
Never mind. I figured it out.
Am i alone to not understand and dont figure out how i place small grid on a command ship made of big grid ?
Can you put the controller on a turret, then put the turret on a large ship? So you can target without moving the carrier.
I didn't check that, but I think it should work
hi, i copied all the parts to make my own drone. Everything works except docking, when I give the order it goes to position itself next to me and keeps the docking order infinitely.
What handles docking? I am looking for a way to find where the problem comes from. (I renamed the connector and group of course).
How to you change the follow distance?
Very good, can it keep on the target if it moves?
Yes, it can
Just like the Launched Fighters in Elite
Ok so I'm a noob... how do i grab the control blocks to place them on the command ship? Do i need to be in creative?
So how would i do all of this in survival?
And on a large grid as well.
You can use a projector instead of copy/paste. A link to the large grid control module is in the description. The setup is exactly the same as with the small grid module.
One more question I am trying to record a path to dock the drones but the hockey's aren't saved, so how do I set up the record path on them?
How would we go about setting this up in survival with custom drones and carriers?
Отлично! все доходчиво объяснено и показано
Can you guys do a walk though and setting this up on a controller
Can this work with my drones or other drones from the steam workshop? Also I want to have a kind of bomber ship that has artillery but no smaller weapons. Or a torpedo bomber that shoots missiles and can kamikaze into an enemy ship.
This can work with any drone that has the AutoPillock script installed (the one from the drone). If you want to setup your own drone you can do that by reverse-engineering of xb-2 as the script was never officialy released.
@@Pro100tv9 where did you get the script from then?
From the ASF Drone by cheerkin
Can you make a automatic salvag drone
I can, that's a good idea!
Awesome! I show this the computerwizard of the faction i am in ^^ i dont have much luck with the maschinespirits
Have you attempted to recite the Litany of Concussive Maintenance?
how do i add the moniter to large grid ships?
Lets say i want to build my own drone how do i put the programming From yours to mine
There are 3 pb blocks on the drone, you can cut them and paste to yours or copy/paste block names, custom data and the scripts. Rename the gyroscope, remote control, connector and a timer block with it's actions.
It is very important to place the remote control and main gyro in the correct direction, otherwise your drone maybe flipping upside down or flying sideways.
Thank you so much
LOVE this Plug and play setup!
How do i donate to you?
Are you able to set a different DOCK and UNDOCK pattern? I am designing a carrier ship where there is an approach path through the front, and a departure point out the sides.
No, both use the same path
@@Pro100tv9 Darn. I was trying to make the Tiger's Claw (From Wing Commander) where it has ships enter the runway on the front and exit out the sides. I was hoping to automate fighters landing and departing to form up on the carrier. Know of any scripts that would allow this?
Perhaps you could achieve that with the Easy Autodocking, it's quite advanced script
Wait so these things are like the bits from gundam?
can one rework the drone for example with other weapons or other hull and thruster layout?
Absolutely, just remember to add all weapons to the default group (I believe the name of that group is coaxial-weapons), and keep the original naming and orientation of the key components - gyro and remote.
This looks really cool! My only question is this: is it possible to do the formations with a fleet of large grid drone ships instead of small grid drones?
Yes, it's possible
Would it be possible for drones to be in formation with my ship but dock to a different ship? I would like to make wingmen for when I use a fighter, but I would not like to have a bunch of connectors on my fighter.
Yes, place the control module on both - your fighter and the carrier, then disable the carrier's module and form up with the fighter. When you'll want to dock the drones disable the module on the fighter and turn on the module on the carrier. Then form up and dock the drones. I think it should work.
Would it be possible to mix this script with the xb-1’s script?
Xb-1 formation script is very possesive and takes control over all gyroscopes. Unfortunately there's not too much space to adjust that. It would not allow the other script to do the job.
Totally not gonna make a fleet of railguns with thrusters…. ;)
How to set up large ship?
It would be great to see how to set one up in survival mode
You could use a projector(s) with the bleuprint(s) of the original parts. I think that should work.
can you capture a tutorial for "SHART | Script Handling Activation of Remote Timers" i want open gate from small ship but I could not do it
Is it possible for you to make a video on setting up fighters with the script that you made? I have a few ideas and i'd love to use a few other ships as drones.
Please and thank you!
Any chance you have information on how to make our own drones to do this?
I made it to work by reverse-engineeting the ASF Whornet, for which you can find a link in the description.
The process is pretty simple, just rename the vital components and it should work.
Later on you can adjust the forward direction etc. and play with the script settings to adjust the drone to your needs
Aren't waypoints based on coordinates and therefore are useless as soon as the carrier moves?
Hey @The_Effect, I believe that waypoints are based on the position relative to the connector.
When the carrier moves the drone will do the movement relative to the carrier and proceed with the docking
@@Pro100tv9 Really cool, thy
I’m on Xbox and there is no place to recompile can you make another one for Xbox please
Great video! Quick question, how do you get multiple drones to connect to different connectors. I assumed it was just renaming both the Main and Drone connectors to dockb as an example and recompiling, but that does not seem to work.
ahh never mind, they all get the same name as its searching for Contains docka. But it doesn't look like you can actually assign a dock to each ship unless I am missing something.
@@Syngather That's correct, all the connectors should be named docka. The drone does not hookup to the specific connector but you may set a specific landing pattern for each drone (which will help to prevent occasional collisions).
@@Pro100tv9 Sadly that doesn't seem to be helping, even when I park them over one spot, they try to fly to the other side of the ship to go to another spot. I have 8 available connectors. Oh well, would have been nice lol
is it fully possible to edit the values on these "drones" for use on modded longer range weapons?
I think you will be able to change the turrets for modded (remember to change the name as well) but I`m not sure if the modded weapons will work at all.
@@Pro100tv9 worth a shot I guess
Does the drone work without turrets? It says you can use cameras on Cheerkins script page and I noticed you had a couple
Technically it could work, but you'd need a LOT of cameras. Raycasting is also pretty heavy when it comes to calculations
@@Pro100tv9 alright, trying to make my own drone and it is not going as well as I’d like since it’s small. I’ll probably just wait for the Artemis script to come out with its drone feature before making it
any way you can do this in survival?
can you make an AI module for custom drones?
So player controlled warships have a role as flagships and other stuff?
Yes, you can set up your flag ship as a command ship for the drones.
@@Pro100tv9 good. As I must be in the fray. Watching my ships guns destroy my enemies and my armour and shields take damage.
Have you considered streaming some survival play? I would love to see how you handle it.
Yes, but I don`t have good conditions to do that atm.
@@Pro100tv9 Fair enough. I do some streaming and I can easily host a server if your ever interested in playing! I look forward to seeing your next video.
Thank you! That's very kind! 🙂
Uuuuuw I love this. 😊
2 questions.
1. Is this rdavs fleet command
2. Can we use warfare 2 lock target feature. Otherwise this is for stationary targets.
Very cool though.
1. No, that's cheerkin's AutoPillock
2. You don't need to. The drone uses turrets to get the target's coords, so even if it moves it will still be tracked.
@@Pro100tv9 Cool Thank you. I wll try it this weekend. Looks fun :)
For some reason the recompile option does not appear on my end
Check if the in-game scripts are enabled in your world settings
hi, it possible to add this but on the custom ship?
Hey, yes, all the instructions are in the item description on steam workshop.
If you want to create your own drone you'd need to do some reverse engineering cuz XB is based on the custom script.
Is there a way to set up waypoints for all of the drones?
Yes, you need to setup waypoint for the first drone, the copy/paste or (if in survival) BP it and print. Please note that if you`ll set it up that way, some accidental collisions may occur.
Can you make a video on how to implement this script on another ship ?
how would you set a custom drone to just go to a gps location and attack without all that other fancy stuff?
command:set-vectors:gpsX:gpsY:gpsZ, then command:force-wp
@@cheerkin put that in a programmable block?
@@adopehipster6972 PB CustomData or manual run with argument. Read FAQ on drone page. I mentioned set-vectors command that would set GPS coordinates for drone to attack, instead of using "all fancy stuff".
Oh, it's a mod and uses programming blocks. Kinda thought it was vanilla
It is vanilla, even without any dlc's ☺️
Without scripts, it's very difficult to do AI-controlled drones. The best you can do is hijack the remote block from an NPC.
I believe LSG did a video on that a while back
edit: this video:
th-cam.com/video/4Gdk0B5oR7o/w-d-xo.html
@@Pro100tv9 some players consider scripting to be like mods, like its cheating or something
and because its so difficult to grasp for people who dont know programming, they think its too much of a hassle
How do I stop the drone from using its thrusters whenever the drone is connected to the ship?
You can either select "pre-contact" (that will disable the AI core of the drone(the thrusters will still be On)) or just group all the drone's thrusters and disable them manually.
@@Pro100tv9 It turns out as long as you recompile both a-processcore for both main, and drone it'll work that way too.
How do I make it so the drone will dock automatically to recharge and rearm?
That's a good question. You could add a conveyor sorter behind the drone's connector (replace instead of conveyor part), add preffered filters to it and set "drain all". That would fill the drone with ammunition until it's full.
Rockets for reloadable rocket launchers would still need to be filled separately due to their size.
I wonder if this would work for an asteroid base?
Technically it could but it doesn't have any collision detection so occasional accidents could happen.
@@Pro100tv9 I see so best to have backup combat drones ready then, in case such accidents happen.
Yes, it'd a good idea to have some backup.
Can I use this for rovers ?
This one doesn't but there's an updated version of the script that does: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900108843
Is there a way to do this on xbox?
The drone is not attacking enemies that get into range
yay, thanks but question. can this work on planets?
If you change the type o thrust and will keep them above 1500m it should work
@@Pro100tv9 weekend goals!
Hey how do we move the green blocks and place them on our ship do we have to use a merger block? I'm in survival and was just wondering if anyone had done this in survival?
It'd be the best to blueprint green part in creative and then use projector in sirvival or just use a merger if that's more comfortable for you. It can also be placed on a rotor/piston/hinge but it may clang this way.
What about Large Grid Is there any way to set it up?
Yes, you can set up large grid in pretty much the same way
Thank you so much!
Can this work with a carrier that's connector is in its interior?
This particular drone can't, but cheerkin released a script called "AutoPillock - universal flight automaton" that can do that and much more. You can easily find it on workshop
@@Pro100tv9 Will you be doing a tutorial on that?
Is it possible for us to set up our own drones and and it's so how
It is possible. You could reverse engineer thr xb-2. Remember to place the remote and gyro according to the direction of your ship.
Can I have multiple command ships with their own drones?
I wasn't able to do that but maybe it's possible. I'll ask cheerkin
@@Pro100tv9 ok thx
@@Pro100tv9And is there any maximum of connected drones?
I don't think there is a limit. I connected 6 at the time and it was still working as expected.
how do you put it on a large grid?
There`s a large grid control module over here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760981943
The setup is exactly the same as the small substitute. You can also place the small module on rotor or connector.
can we make our own drone design?
Yes, the script works even with large grids
Thank you :o)
How is the mod/ Script named
That's a script borrowed from cheerkin's ASF drone, there's a link for it in the description
Large grid?
Here's the link for the large control module: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760981943
The setup is exectly the same as with the small substitute.
It works on planets?
No, it has only Ion thrusters
@@Pro100tv9 I mean if I change to atmo will work on planet?
It should, just remember to recompile the PB blocks after changing thrusters and try to keep it above 1500m so it doesn't hit the ground while orbiting
@@Pro100tv9 nice, ty
today i learned something that wasn't even in the video to learn.. you can cut and paste parts of a ship In SE?? HOW!
Creative mode
Everytime I try to do this on console I can't get the scripts to spawn In with the drone
I think that scripts are disabled on Xbox
@@Pro100tv9 no I can use them and got the control fitted to my ship, but now I can't control the drone once it disconnects from the printer
Oh, try to recompile the Programmable block once disconnected from the printer
@@Pro100tv9 thank you so much that work, is there anyway you can upload the large block controller to mod.ie you've only got it uploaded on steam
@@Pro100tv9 great design BTW you made my build become a reality in my survival
Xbox? Does it work on Xbox?
can you make this drone simpler? from your explanation it seems that this is not a script but a mod, because I am a pure survival player, I only use scripts to do activities. if you copy a block like this it's impossible to use it in survival mode hehe
You could open it in creative make a blueprint and the print in in survival using projectors instead of copy/paste. It should work
Thank you
Hi
Hi