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[GAPS] - Gravity Active Protection System

Gravity Active Protection System, formerly GRA and VectorCIWS, is an omni-directional gravity torpedo barrel-less high-scalable launcher.

It fires player-made war blocks from surface hardpoints with velocities up to 1070m/s using dynamically-crafted gravity field (in vanilla it works thanks to speedbreaking exploit).

Originally intended as hard-kill APS against incoming heavy PMW projectiles, hence the naming.

• Shells are potentially faster than railgun (under speedbreaker exploit)
  
• Super scalability - build as many gravgens as you want, add hardpoints for more volume of fire and/or coverage
  
• Instant fire solution and shot to interception point
  
• Any number of shells can converge on a precise target point without need to move/aim in autofire mode
  
• No moving parts, no barrel, can fire and any platform speed
  
• Speedbreaker variant does not require batteries
  
• Five targeting implementations - GPStargeter, RaycastSingleTargeter, TurretControllerTargeter, TurretAiTargeter, DataLinkTargeter
  
• Shells shut down mass and are immune to gravity shields
  
• Shells are both proximity and timer-fused
  
• Bypass any conventional PD setups
  
• On-the-fly changing shell types (AP/HE)
  
• Ripple fire mode and spherical boost salvo mode (cloud)
  
• Self-tuning velocity estimation
  
• Compatible with autopillock script (to be used on automated drones) and TGP (advanced targeting / datalink)
  
• Uses CTC ai range exploit (set to 5000m range) - definitely would be patched soon

1. Watch the basic video. More text coming soon.
   
2. Add all hardware except gravgens and hardpoint merge blocks to the same group that has programmable block in it.
   
3. Add custom turret controller, normal turrets, cameras to use TurretControllerTargeter, TurretAiTargeter, RaycastSingleTargeter

It gets executed once during the first program tick. Slashes comment line out (to be ignored).

//toggle:fire
command:set-value:max-speed:400
command:set-value:uncapped-speed:true
command:set-value:interval:0.1
//command:gps:100035.85:121407.46:80639.89
//command:bind-targeters:GPStargeter,RaycastSingleTargeter,TurretControllerTargeter,TurretAiTargeter,DataLinkTargeter

Hardpoint with dual blueprint and speedbreaker: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2773606980


Start with watching the basic setup video guide.
Add more stuff when you got the basics.
Autofire works towards targets that are within -+45 degree cone, so place hardpoints from all sides for full coverage.
Spherical salvo ignores all checks, so be careful, think about placing hardpoints in a way that would not get you toasted.
If your ship uses any sort of gravity drive, you need to either separate it away from the GAPS hardware, or use Autopillock-based gravity drive as the script detects it and blocks it during shell acceleration phase.
Targeters are checked in the listed order, top-down. That defines their priority. I.e. by default, if you have GPS target, it would ignore all other targeters. To change priority or presence of targeters, use command:rebind-targeters.


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