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Fly-By-Wire - Control and stability for Aircraft

Made to control and improve control of aircraft made for Atmospheric flight under the mod Aerodynamic Physics or similar mods.

How-to:
Build control surfaces on top of rotors.
Group the rotors in block-groups for Elevator (Pitch), Ailerons (Roll) and Rudder (Yaw), you may exclude one or several categories.

At the top of the script, input the name of your controller (Cockpit/Seat/remote) and the groups between the quotation marks of the relevant strings.

Below the strings are 5 inputs corresponding to the normal control inputs from a craft: Strafe Left/Right, Forward/back, Up/Down, Roll, pitch/look up/down, yaw/look left/right.
Change the number next to these, to make these input affect the output corresponding with the number;
1 = Pitch, 2 = Roll, 3 = Yaw
Any other number will disable the input.


Presto, you're good to go!


Below the input selection, there are values that affect how the controls react, these can be change to try and improve stability, or invert axis'
"D" affects the autonomic response of the script, higher values make for more agressive action, which may be better for heavier crafts, but may cause oscillation/wobbling in lighter ones.
Lower values reduce the response, slowing down cancelling of rotation, but improving responsiveness to user input.
This value must be higher than 0.


Pitch/Yaw/Roll Mult are multipliers for the user input on those axis', if your craft is too sluggish, raising these values will make it more responsive, likewise, if your craft is too sensitive, lower values will improve stability.
Negating these values will invert the input.


maxDeflection is the max angle the control surfaces will turn, 40 means +/- 40 degrees from 0.


pitchComp adds extra stability to the pitch axis, by attempting to limit the rotational acceleration; Larger values will reduce the chance of your craft flipping end-over-end, but will also reduce max pitch rate.
This value should carry the same sign as PitchMult (eg. if PitchMult is negative, pitchComp should be negative).
This value can be set to 0 to disable the compensation and increase Pitch rate, its value should always be between -0.99 and 0.99, setting it to 1 or -1 will cancel pitch acceleration and thus pitch input.


The script should automatically assign direction to elevators based on whether they're at the front or rear of the craft, or on the left/right side, but if you need to reverse the direction of a rotor, then you can add "rev" to the particular rotors Custom Data.

Configuration information is also written at the top of the script.
For more info check the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s51dc9u4lNw at time 4:50

Demo craft can be found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733568912

Aerodynamic Physics (Deadly Reentry + Drag + Flight) mod can be found here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=571920453