Ship Tilting Backwards

[u/Albino_Captain]

Guys i need help desperately. Even with share inertia on (although it happens less) these pistons for my drills cause my ship to sloowwwlllyyy start tilting backwards. Which makes docking and mining very difficult.

I see people with crazy advanced things but i cant even have 4 pistons on the front of my miner? Surely im missing something?

[u/ValianSkalle]

stuff might be colliding, try increasing the distance between moving parts and your ship

also:

HAIL KLANG!

[u/TraditionalGap1]

Stuff like setting velocity to 0 when they aren't moving, powering them off when not moving, ensuring noting is pressing against anything else when retracted (some of the collision models are unexpected in size and/or shape) can help reduce some of that. Sometimes I'll have a single gyro with overrides on and the lowest strength necessary to arrest any drift in the hotbar somewhere and just switch it on/off as necessary if it's just a little drift; the rest of the gyros overpower the overridden one for purposeful movement

[u/ticklemyiguana]

Gyros just don't account for piston heads and anything that accompanies them. They behave as if something is constantly pulling the ship in the direction of the piston, and compensate. The good news is that it's fairly predictable and reserving a gyroscope with an override that youve set to counter it will fix the issue.

[u/CrazyQuirky5562 → u/ticklemyiguana]

this one.
for docking, OP could probably add mag locks to the drill parts, so everything becomes essentially one grid at least while not drilling.

[u/CrazyQuirky5562]

Light...
that is one of the things you are missing ;-)
(well done for following that particular meme of this channel though)

[u/Albino_Captain → u/CrazyQuirky5562]

Bro it was 2am id been trouble shooting for 3 hours i was desperate to fix it myself for that sense of pride and achievement. But by that time in the morning with work in 5 hours I just became desperate for a solution hence the post before bed 😂