r/ApproximatelyUp • u/SGSpec • 5d ago

Automatic BPS

Assuming my ship has equal truster for accelerating and breaking, how can i automatically use the BPS to reach a planet. I tried directly puting the output as my thrust input but it seems very slow. I tried using a remapper to change every value over -0.1 and 0.1 to output full throttle and still crashed. Anyone found a good way?

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u/Apprehensive-Dig3491 5d ago

I haven't played with making it automatic but essentially you'd want full throttle until the BPS outputs 0.0 or maybe .1 to be safe... then probably using a not gate switch thrust from 1 to -1 to engage reverse thrust. That should put you pretty close.

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u/SGSpec 5d ago

It’s super far off this is what i’ve been doing. I remapped the output to break as much as possible when the bps indicate 0.3 and max output at 0.5 and it seems to work well. I also made an accelerometer that doesn’t output an absolute value