Hey there, may I use your script for the current research bunker competition? I think legally I have to ask you for permission because I think by submitting the build I give Keen the right to use it how they want to.

is there opinion to show mode on screen?

Whenever I load the script, I'm getting an error that says:
"Error: Failed to Read Config: Expected
section definition on line1"

Does anyone know how to fix this?

All my craft seem to drift down at varying speeds. Any ideas? Ive grouped all thrusters, removed all mods etc.

@Computermatronic

Hiya,
Props on the mod. I wondering if you could make it better at simulation the helicopter flight model and physics. I got few feature sugestions formated below. If you decide to start on I'll be happy to help with testing and with helicopter magic explaining.

1. Alternate control keybinds with roll being changed from Q/E to mouse left/right and yaw taking the Q/E keys.
This feels out of place because MOUSE controls pitch and yaw and Q/E does the roll, in rotorwing craft the cyclic stick (the mouse) operates both pitch and roll and, foot pedals (Q/E keys) work the yaw. This is further weird because yaw losses effectiveness as the forward speed increase.

2. When X forward speed is reached, helicopter rotates its nose to the direction of the movement and should follow the rolling input.
When the certain airspeed over the fuselage is reached the drag wins and adjusts the nose to the flight direction. Helicopters are just giant weathervanes in that regard.

3. Replace vanilla 0/1 throttle input with progressive throttle control like with the collective stick.
4. Flight mode should counteract way slower (like 5 or 8 times, maybe more) when pitching down from the hover position.
5. Flight mode should lose it's corrective strenght as the speed increases and eventually lose it compeletly at cruising speed.
6. Flight mode should allow to lose some alltitude when pitching up and down.



Also I've have issue / found bug when I used it on my helicopter build. PB says this, second line is in yellow:

Error: Failed to Read Config: Expected
section definition on line1

any chance we can get an auto land command? Basically it will just land the ship as gently as possible, wherever it is hovering. Then we can set an action that says if no pilot is in the seat auto land. Or trigger it via the new signal blocks etc.

I just started to mess with this... and I am impressed... a combination of simplicity and finesse. Thank You

This is awesome. I have crashed several chopper by now and with this script the movement is intuitiv!
Dankeschön!

Does this script have a mode of hovering on a point, with no gyro control?
Either I'm dumb and didn't find it, or it really doesn't exist

Sorry Screen shot link not working.

this should be better
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2970345721

i am looking for this script basically, but would like it to take into account forward thrust if present. So forward flight could be controlled by a second thruster thus keeping the ship level in flight. this would allow the script to try and keep the ship level to counter any pitch and roll i give it while maintaing forward flight. Also a cruise mode where i press W and S to set a cruise speed and it will maintain this speed then pressing the landing mode or what ever will dampen all motion to bring the grid to a stop.

I want it to use on this grid, and would be happy to work with you on getting it working.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/76561197981957072/screenshot/%p1%/

@Computermatronic Glad I could help :)

edit: yes they work with remote control

Can your script work with Remote Control bock?

@Astronaut Rogier Thank you for your initiative, I've applied your fix in v1.15

so curious, does this work with drones? like remote control blocks

PSA

If your craft happens to slowly drift up (or possibly down?) when you're sitting in it, this might be due to the weight of your player inventory.

The script calculates the thrust for the weight of the craft itself + all inventories including the player's inventory. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but SE's physics engine does not account for the weight of the player's inventory when calculating the total weight of the craft. This means that the script thinks the craft weighs more than the physics engine thinks. The script overcompensates in hovering thrust, which leads to the slow upward drift.

I have found 2 solutions:
1) Empty your player inventory into a container/seat/whatever, or;
2) On line 564 in the script, change `TotalMass` to `PhysicalMass`.

This has worked for me so far but I can't guarantee that it works for everyone. I hope this helps.

This script is great, just got back into playing Space Engineers and starting on any of the planets with just the drop pod makes it so much easier to get around

@Sir Connery Heli Assist's config is stored in the PB's custom data, if it's failing to read the config, delete the PB's custom data, and Heli Assist will regenerate it.

Although I didn't get the script to work this is something I've always wanted.

This script would also really benefit from a vertical auto lander of some sort.

Integrating this with Spug's Easy Auto-Docking 2 would be a dream.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146371052

Error: Failed To Read Config: Expected [section] definition on line1

That's after I compile the script.

This has rocked my world, amazing work!

@Dante Dravon yeah me too and its getting annoying

anyone seeing where the script wants to climb
at a near constant 0.4m/s when stationary

I nosedive strait to the ground when I move forward.

I just used the script in a boat with the water mod 3.0 I changed the following in custom data.

max_pitch=0
max_roll=0
max_landing_pitch=0
max_landing_roll=0

Works like a dream.

Well done, soon I could have a heli on standby to deal with issues and get around without all that death and destruction that usually goes with my flying. Thanks for putting your time and effort into this creation. Cheers mate.

@when adler is sus Should be fixed as of v1.14

@Warden Eternal, @fyhring, @OctoMoose, @FireManDan Hopefully the issue with inverted controls / uncontrollable craft should be fixed with v1.12.

Would it be possible to make a version of this script where A/D yaw the craft instead of of side to side movement?

Until a more easy fix has been identified, I've found a way to correct the helicopter from inverting it's pitch. It seems to be connected to the axis that the seats/cockpit used to pilot it faces. For me, the red axis when mirroring is the one that will let the helicopter fly properly, but this might differ for people. I simply just changed the direction the cockpit faces on the helicopter to find which way it want's to fly properly.

Afterwards, you can simply rebuild the front of the helicopter and then paste the rest of the whole helicopter onto the new axis, and it should work just fine. :) If you're in survival, you can always use merge blocks or connectors and then weld the whole thing together.

Not a fast fix, but it will be faster than completely building from the ground up, especially if you build huge helicopters.

@Computermatronic I've made a PR to your git repo of this script. It enables Q/E (roll) and pitch control to be inverted and thereby fixes that invert issue.

@OctoMoose can you possibly upload a blueprint of the ship you're using it on.

For me Q/E apply to pitch and horizontal mouse input is inverted. Not sure what I'm doing wrong since WASD works as intended however. Help would be appreciated

My key commands are backwards. Q/E roll the helicopter in the opposite directions. Seems related to the script

@andbruu, you can have thrusters in any direction without consequence, as the thrust dampening code is designed to account for phantom thrust (as it was designed to be compatible with the aerodynamic drag & re-entry mod).

What is the effect of having directional thrust, in addition to upwards? Can I put on some forward thrust for better acceleration, while depending on the script to slow me down and strafe?

the custom data once the script is started is empty. bruh

it would be great if this would have support for a status lcd where you can see what's toggled and what is not

in flight mode lateral dampeners wont work unless ship dampners is on, which in that case it stops the ship without me holding w

@FireManDan delete everything in the PB's custom data.

when loading into a PB getting an error saying it failed to read config

Ooo I will check it out =)

Apologies for not updating this in a while. The code responsible for dealing with individual gyroscopes was bugged, meaning that certain gyroscope configurations would cause instability. Hopefully v1.11 should fix this.

Love the script but yeah, you made it so that up and down with the mouse cause it to jink, and it is really sensitive, it is very easy to put a chopper into an unrecoverable roll. However, I did find that using the arrow keys to control the left and right turning made it more bearable.

I encountered a problem while using this script: mouse controls works like if my cockpit was turned 90 degrees to the left (up and down results in roll, q and e results in pitch and left/right - in yaw). How can i solve that? Is it a bug?

Computer, I've built a Helicopter with this and i'd like to give you credit for it.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1811365410

What's the difference with "Copter time" https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1302070658 ?

@Jonathon594, why even bother leaving a comment? You are using this guy workshop entry to announce yours. This is quite low.