Waypoint Generator

A simple python script to export generated waypoints into a CSV file. Waypoints can either be user-selected or randomly selected.

Installation
Usage
User Selected Waypoints
Randomly Generated Waypoints
Circular Generated Waypoints
Additional Information

Installation

Install dependencies

pip install matplotlib

Optional install for circular waypoint generation

pip install numpy

Usage

# Run the script
$ python main.py <flag> <value>

Optional arguments:
  -h, --help                  show this help message and exit
  -r, --random                generates a user-selected amount of random waypoints
  -c, --click                 generates user-selected waypoint positions   
  -z, --three-dimensional     allows user to change the z-axis of a created waypoint
  -s, --scroll-sensitivity    sets the scroll sensitivity of the mouse when setting the z-axis

Press Z to undo a selected waypoint or revert to a previously generated set of waypoints.

Press X to clear selected waypoints or to generate a new set of randomly generated waypoints.

Press C to connect the last and first waypoints.

Scroll ⇧ to increase the z-axis of the waypoint if the --three-dimensional flag is used.

Scroll ⇩ to decrease the z-axis of the waypoint if the --three-dimensional flag is used.

Generated waypoints are only exported at exit.

User Selected Waypoints

$ python main.py -c

$ python main.py -c -z --scroll-sensitivity 1

Randomly Generated Waypoints

The generated waypoints are passed piecewise through an algorithm that ensures that each line segment never intersects with each other.

$ python main.py -r <number-of-waypoints>

Circular Generated Waypoints

circle_wp_gen.py is a CLI script for generating waypoints of a certain radius and smoothness. The user can choose to define smoothness with point density or the angle between every point.

$ cd circle
$ python circle_wp_gen.py -a <x-radius> -b <y-radius>

Optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -a, --xradius    radius of an ellipse on the x-axis
  -b, --yradius    radius of an ellipse on the y-axis

The numpy library is required to run this script.

Additional Information

Exported waypoints can be imported using the pandas or csv module.

pandas module example

from pandas import read_csv

df = read_csv('waypoints.csv')
x = df['X-axis'].values
y = df['Y-axis'].values

csv module example

import csv

with open('waypoints.csv', newline='') as f:
    rows = list(csv.reader(f, delimiter=','))
    x, y = [[float(i) for i in row] for row in zip(*rows[1:])]

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