General Question creating traffic

[charvey165]

Silly question? Is there a way to create true traffic in orbiter?
for instance, id like a shuttle A to take off and fly a waypoint pattern to another moon base, land and unload the cargo. then on a timer maybe? lift off and fly the reverse way points and land. then load up more cargo and fly back after a preset time? im not a programer but looks like it would work, im just not sure where to start. any suggestions? is it possible?
also a script maybe to spawn UCGO cargo at a warehouse ever so often? this would be nice. maybe im getting beyond what orbiter is able to do?
charvey

 

[jedidia]

It's doable, of course, but you'll have to write the whole AI that pilots the shuttle, as Orbiter comes without any artificial inteligence whatsoever.

OBSP is about to solve that problem, but it'll probably be another while until a first version sees release.

 

[SolarLiner]

The Autopilot MFD let's you do a kind of "false-AI", as the ship will follow a flightplan (hover to a certain altitude, go at this speed, climb to this altitude, etc...), but you need to know how to do these flightplans and how will the ship react at the commands (as it will not correct itself) to do a proper flightplan.

Another solution is to record a playback for every ship in the scenario, then edit the scenario file to remove the "PLAYBACK" tag of the ship you want to control.