[help] self correcting wire hoverballs!!!

[badass657]

i cannot figure out how to make a platform that self corrects its height when it goes over a slant or somthing. ive heard you can use [hoverballz,ranger,and express gate] but i cant get the gate right. can anyone help...?

[Skoinks_X]

Place a ranger under your machine. It musn't touch the ground, but it must be with a long enough beam, so that it can react when something is in the way. The best way to place it is to place it at a 45 degrees angle. This way it can detect things that are a bit to the front and react before the machine hits it.
Make an exspression gate>

Label: whatever
Inputs: Z
Outputs: Ranger


Line1: Ranger>*You choose*->Z=*You choose how high*
Line2: Ranger<*You choose*->Z=*Again, your choise*

And it will be like:

If the distance from the Ranger is more than the Value, then Z(Hoverball hight) is = to a Value you choose.
And vice versa.

Hope I helped.

[AzraelUK]

Completely untested, but you get the idea.

@name Hoverball stabiliser in E2
@inputs Setpoint Ranger
@outputs HoverVel
interval(100)
if (Ranger - Setpoint > 5) {
HoverVel = -1
} else if (Setpoint - Ranger > 5) {
HoverVel = 1
}

[badass657]

thank you guys so much i will get right on workin on it when i get home

[badass657]

skoinks how would i do this if i wanted it to be 50 of the ground all the time... example?

so it looks kinda like this - lol and when it goes up the slope... //


woudl it be like ranger > 50 -> Z = -1?

[twitch3217]

HOVERBALLz = RANGERz + 50

[Pyro-Fire]

Originally Posted by twitch3217

HOVERBALLz = RANGERz + 50

make sure ranger outputs world xyz.

[Skoinks_X]

Just place an add chip. Add the value in which the hoverballs are by default and add the extra value (Expression.)

[SpaRrRly]

You can also use a ranger with each hoverball, then summ heights from rangers and divide the sum by the rangers count, then add an extra value to the result and set the final result as height of every hoverball. The result of all theese manipulations will be smooth height correcting.