About Orbital Autopilot and Map
From Steam WorkshopThis script allows you to keep a ship in orbit around a planet and render an orbital map. Instructions: You ship will need a few components for this script to do its job. The most important is a ship…
This script allows you to keep a ship in orbit around a planet and render an orbital map.
Instructions:
You ship will need a few components for this script to do its job. The most important is a ship controller. This can be either a remote control or a cockpit. It must be named "OrbitController" for the script to find it. This block will define the orientation of the ship when orbiting a planet with the autopilot. The Up side of this block will point away from the planet, and the Front side will point forward.
The autopilot can be activated with the argument "toggleAutopilot". When activated it will attempt to allign the ship with the target orbit and then accelerate to the required orbital velocity. In order for the autopilot to work your ship will need a gyroscope and 1 thruster in each direction.
To select an orbit you can run the script with the arguments "forward", to generate an orbit based on your current direction, or "input", to generate an orbit based on the input variables. There are a lot of things you can change in the input section of the script, so I suggest you take a look at that.
The orbital map can be rendered by adding an lcd panel named "OrbitDisplay". This will display the planet (grey), the ship (green), the target orbit (light blue) and the current trajectory (magenta). If you add waypoints to the ship controller (if it is a remote control), these will be also be displayed (blue).
Extra stats and error messages can be displayed on an lcd panel by naming it "OrbitStats".
A Speed mod is highly recommended for autopilot functionality. I suggest one of these: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=380168871 or this one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=599536562
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
A 398 KB download, rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 5 yr ago.
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- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Space Engineers — 8 GB (8 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2021-09-23, released 2021-09-23, 398 KB
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Orbital Autopilot and Map.
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What kind of mod it is
From the catalogMaps & scenarios
Custom maps, arenas and scenarios to play on.
Compatibility
- Game
- Space Engineers
- File size
- 398 KB
Verified at the source
- ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓AuthorRenener, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
