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Full Control

A vessel guidance assistance script. Works in vanilla game, takes player inputs and uses them to steer the ship. The entire ship. Including utilizing all attached thrusters and gyros, even ones on other grids, even ones attached by rotor or piston or connector, even ones of other grid sizes, even ones the game would not ordinarily allow you to control from that cockpit. If they're in the group, it uses them.

To set it up, load script into a programmable block.
Make a group called "Full Control" containing all your thrusters, gyroscopes, the above programmable block, and any cockpits or remotes you wish to be able to drive from. Add optional LCDs for diagnostics.
Make sure all the blocks in the group have the same owner.

The main arguments are "go" to start the script, and "stop" to stop it.

Configuration is in the CustomData field. Use "load" command to reload config after manual editing. You can tune the sensitivities etc.

The display for each LCD is determined by its Public Title, various things you can put there it scans for are: "yaw", "pitch", "roll", "movex", "movey", "movez", "logo", things like that. There are more in the script.

An example ship or two:

FAQ:

Q: What do you mean, it drives the ship?
A: It obtains player cockpit inputs from the game (a recent feature Keen added) and uses overrides to replace the standard ship controls.

Q: Does it rotate thrusters like a VTOL?
A: No, it doesn't mess with rotors, it just doesn't care if its blocks are on one, or how you rotate it. I'm not Whip. Use his script for that. But if you do happen to rotate your thrusts, this script will handle it fine so long as you do it slowly enough, or if you shorten the rescan time period so it can know about the new combined thruster capability.

Q: Why so jerky?
A: So you don't drift around. You can tune the response in the CustomData.

Q: Why does my ship lose altitude?
A: Because my calculations aren't perfect. Odd mass balancing and such will have an effect. Make sure you have CargoMult set according to your world settings, for survival. Try ExtraMass, maybe. Hey, it's better than what you get without my script!

Q: My ship crashed! Can I call your lawyer?
A: I don't know anyone named Pesticide. I don't know what you're talking about. Try not putting gyroscopes on remote grids next time? I'd definitely test in Creative w damage off first.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Check common ownership!!!
PB must read or mess with settings on all other blocks, especially cockpit.
Check PB console for error message when you give it "go" command from terminal. Most common issues are detected and logged there.
Put an LCD in the group and check its Text and its CustomData for diagnostic messages. PB needs access to that, too.