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Blarg's Hinge Steering

Turn using hinges instead of regular wheels. WASD control of course.

1. Install the script.
2. Correct any errors shown in the script output.

Bare minimum components:
• Control seat of some kind
• A hinge
• Programmable block (and scripts enabled in the world settings).



If you have more than one hinge/rotor on the ship, you'll need to tell the script what hinge(s) to use. Do that by tagging the hinge with "#steer".

If it's turning the wrong way, put a minus before the tag (like this "-#steer") and recompile.

You can limit how much the hinge can turn on the hinge itself. The script will adapt. Turning speed, the tag, and whether to automatically straighten can be changed at the top of the script.

If you want propulsion on all wheels, use Whiplash141's excellent Subgrid Wheel Control script

Rotors? Well I didn't plan to support them but they work as well. You need to set rotation limits for auto straighten to work. Make sure to point the 0°-side of the rotor forward.

This version adds mouse/arrow key support. To use it, just add yaw or pitch to the hinge name, like this: "#steer yaw".
Details in change notes.

This update brings center offset angle.
You can now use something other than 0° as the center for auto straightening. Just add e.g. c45 to the hinge's name for a 45° center offset. Details in change notes.

This update brings the none keyword when selecting what buttons to use.
See the change notes from v1.1.0 for usage.

This update brings:

• A way to toggle auto straightening on or off while driving.
  
• Support for using the other direction keys. Not just A + D.

Check the change notes for this version for details.



Last but not least, here's the wheel loader blueprint from the video/pictures