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RDA Automatic Mining Drones

elwolf6elwolf6 Registered Posts: 9
edited January 2018 in Showcase #1
Ever wanted to go space mining but didn't actually want to do anything?
Want to put something in those empty hangars of your titan or station that are useful?

Introducing RDA Automatic Mining Drone Starfall!
the RDA Practical Science Division has been working on this for about 3 months (I know it looks like a long time for something like this put part of the process was learning Starfall). This chip allows you to create automatic Drones that go mining for you!

How to use/Commands:
Put chip onto drone (it needs to be an industrial core with a mineral collection beam and some solar panels at the minimum)
Make sure your mining lasers are facing the front of the ship
Wire "Fire" input on your lasers to "Fire" on the output of the Starfall
Wire "Drone" to your drones parent prop
Wire "Station" to your drones docking station
Parent your ship

!Dock to teleport the Drone to your specified docking location
!Teleport to teleport the Drone to a random asteroid on the map (Capacitor must be at least 90%)
!LaserOn to activate your mining lasers
!LaserOff to deactivate your mining lasers

When your done mining you should teleport the Drone to the Dock and pump all your minerals into Global storage for later use

Code:

Github: https://github.com/elwolf6/G-Data/blob/master/Starfall/RDA Automated Drone Mining Computer.txt
--@name RDA Semi-Automated Drone Mining Computer
--@author RDA Practical Science Division
--@autoupdate

-- Credits
-- njits23 and hobnob: (IsOperator func)
-- LtBrandon: Misc Lua things
-- elwolf6: everything else

-- How to use
-- Put starfall on drone
-- Wire "Fire" on mining laser to "Fire" on starfall
-- Parent drone
-- When the drone is at full Capacitor do !teleport
-- do !laseron to start mining (dont worry if you start to lose a lot of Capacitor, the laser is still running)
-- do !laseroff after like 5 minutes
-- do !dock
-- pump your stuff in Global Storage

if SERVER then

    --Config
    Operators = {tostring(entities.owner()),"elwolf6"} --Put the people who should have access to the drone here. do not remove entities.owner() or else you wont be able to operate the drone
    --More things will be added here like wheather you want the drone to orbit the asteroid and such
    --End Config

    wire.adjustInputs({"Drone","Station"}, {"Entity","Entity"})
    wire.adjustOutputs({"Fire"},{"Normal"})

    ENT = {Entity=entities.self()}
    Drone = wire.ports.Drone
    DroneCore = Drone:GetCoreEntity()
    Station = wire.ports.Station

    --Asteroid finding
    AstTable = find.ByClass("mining_asteroid") --Find all the asteroids (returns table)
    Asteroid = AstTable[1] -- Pick the first thing in the table (returns entity)

    --Find operators (got this function from HobCo), this stops random people from using the Drone
    function IsOperator(Ent) for I=1,#Operators do if Ent == FindPlayerByName(Operators[I]) then return true end end return false end
    hook.Add("Think","OperatorCheck", IsOperator) -- Hook that calls IsOperator every server tick

    timer.Simple( 0.1, function()
        hook.Add("PlayerSay","DroneFalse", function(ply, text)
            if ( string.lower( text ) == "!teleport") and IsOperator(entities.player()) and ( DroneCore:GetCapAmount()/DroneCore:GetCapMax() < 0.89) then
                print("Drone doesnt have enough Capacitor!")
                return ""
            end
        end)
    end )

    function Commands(ply, text) --All of the commands are in this function

        --!Teleport command
        if ( string.lower( text ) == "!teleport") and IsOperator(entities.player()) and ( DroneCore:GetCapAmount()/DroneCore:GetCapMax() > 0.89) then
            Drone:SetPos(Asteroid:GetPos() + Vector(0,0,0))
            Drone:SetAngles((Asteroid:GetPos() - Drone:GetPos()):Angle())
            Drone:SetFrozen(true)
            timer.Simple(0.1,function()
                print("Drone Teleported to Asteroid")
            end)
            return "" --Hide the command from chat
        end
        
        if ( string.lower( text ) == "!teleport") and IsOperator(entities.player()) and ( DroneCore:GetCapAmount()/DroneCore:GetCapMax() < 0.89) then
            print("Drone doesnt have enough Capacitor!")
            return ""
        end
        
        --!Dock command
        if ( string.lower( text ) == "!dock") and IsOperator(entities.player()) then
            Drone:SetPos(Station:GetPos() + Vector(0,0,200))
            Drone:SetAngles(Angle(0,0,0))
            timer.Simple(0.1,function()
                print("Drone Teleported to Dock!")
            end)
            return "" --Hide command from chat
        end
        
        --!LaserOn command
        if ( string.lower( text ) == "!laseron") and IsOperator(entities.player()) then
            timer.Simple(0.1,function()
                print("Mining Laser On!")
            end)
            Drone:SetAngles((Asteroid:GetPos() - Drone:GetPos()):Angle())
            wire.TriggerOutput("Fire", 1)
            return "" --Hide the command from chat
        end
        
        if ( string.lower( text ) == "!laseroff") and IsOperator(entities.player()) then
            timer.Simple(0.1,function()
                print("Mining Laser shutting down")
            end)
            wire.TriggerOutput("Fire", 0)
            return "" --Hide the command from chat
        end

    end
    hook.Add("PlayerSay","Commands",Commands) --Hook to tell the function to run

end

Update: Implemented some of NinjrKillr's reforms
Name changed to Semi-Automated drones
All the commands have been moved into one function
DroneFalse moved into DroneMove which is in Commands function now
Made it so you don't have to put your name in the Operator table it auto puts the owner in there

Update 2: removed useless crap from older version of the Starfall

Comments

  • elwolf6elwolf6 Registered Posts: 9
    Report any bugs on the Github page or by replying to this comment here
  • NinjrKillrNinjrKillr Registered Posts: 175
    A few thoughts:
    [*] Why's it called an automated drone when it.... isn't? :)
    [*] Why do you have a think hook running the isOperator command? I feel like that will achieve nothing more than pointless calculations on tick.
    [*] I feel like having one function in PlayerSay that forks out to the different commands might be more efficient? I see a lot of reused code that could be consolidated.
    [*] Is there no owner() command, to automatically populate yourself into the Operators list?
    [*] The DroneFalse hook, in the timer? Could be merged with the DroneMove hook, because they're doing the exact same check. Just put the "Not enough Capacitor" in an else.
    [*] The apostrophe in your instructions makes half of the code on the forum look like a string. Maybe turn "don't" into "dont" (in !laseron instructions), to make it a little more readable here :)

    PS: Yay for BBCode lists not working properly. @LtBrandon

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