Create: Avionics

Make your airship fly itself.

CC: Tweaked peripherals for every instrumentable block in Create: Aeronautics. Read attitude, altitude, velocity, bearing. Drive throttle, propellers, balloon gas. Write your autopilot in Lua (that's a bad pitch, but still!)

Build

• Altitude-hold for hot-air balloons
• Heading-and-pitch autopilots for propeller aircraft
• Cruise control bound to a steering wheel
• Tracked turrets for mounted potato cannons
• Whatever else you can write a control loop for

Start

Heading hold on a twin-engine ship:

local nav        = peripheral.find("navigation_table")
local port, stbd = peripheral.find("analog_transmission")
local target     = nav.getHeadingRad()

while true do
    local err = (target - nav.getHeadingRad() + math.pi) % (2*math.pi) - math.pi
    local diff = math.max(-5, math.min(5, err * 4))
    port.setSignal(7 - diff); stbd.setSignal(7 + diff)
    sleep(0.05)
end

Three peripherals, one P-controller, the ship locks heading. Every Aeronautics (and nearly every Create) block is a peripheral — read sensors, set actuators, write the loop you want.

Full API docs — units, body-frame conventions, every method.

Read the parallel guide. 5 Hz and 20 Hz feel different.

Install

Needs: MC 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.219+ · Create 6.0.10+ · Simulated 1.2.1+ · Sable 1.1.0+ · CC: Tweaked 1.115+ Optional: Aeronautics 1.2.1+ (for propulsion and balloons)

Source · Issues

github.com/SolAstrius/CreateAvionics

MIT. Built on RyanHCode's CC peripheral foundation in Simulated — NOTICE.