The Best Way To Refuel Your Ships | Create Aeronautics + ComputerCraft (Survival-Friendly)
Why is it at night? Because gas prices are cheaper at night, obviously.
This is a short video demonstrating a proof-of-concept 4 DOF Manipulator capable of automatically refueling a ship. It uses the inbuilt GPS from CC:Tweaked to calculate the coordinates of the ship's dock, and sends it to the arm controller, where it uses inverse kinematics to calculate the rotations needed to bring the arm dock to the ship's. The ship computer is relatively compact, which makes this arm potentially useful for smaller ships as well. The contraption does not require chunk force-loading to function.
It is technically possible to use the arm to dock one's ship, but only if the ship is relatively small, or if more mass is added to the ship (which can potentially increase its' inner dead-zone).
Bloop schematic (Very late but here it is): https://createmod.com/schematics/bloo...
The arm schematic will be released in a later date as I finish tweaking certain things (I will also release a guide on setting it up). In the meantime however, here is the repo for the arm (Use vanilla-gps branch): https://github.com/CraftxTD/4-DOF-Man...
Mods used in the contraptions:
CC: Tweaked
Create Hose Connectors
Create Connected
Create Copycats
Create Deco
Supplementaries
Amendments
Vanilla Backport
Vista
Mods seen in the background:
Voxy Backport: https://github.com/m3t4f1v3/voxy/tree... (Use mc_1211 branch)
Simple Clouds with Voxy support: https://github.com/RWRmrfrog/simple-c... (Use mc_1211 branch, this may be an outdated repo)
Stellar View
Music Expansion - Volume Gamma
The world is custom made and is not free. The link to it can be found here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/proje...