Great tutorial. Well done. I used your crane design and slightly modified it because I wasn't getting the flexibility I needed (Welder Crane). I split the Piston Boom and placed 2 wrist hinges between them. This gives you the added benefit of having a "double-jointed" crane. You can weld all the way up to the base of Rotating Rotor. As long as your group your Wrist Rotors and keep the same naming convention it only requires you to recompile the PB Script. You know it's a good design and training when modifications are actually easy. Earned a new subscriber. #Respect

Nicely explained. Looking forward to trying it out in some builds.

This was a beautiful tutorial, thank you : D

Very good informative video! Thank you!

Very good tutorial and nice design

Very Cool Bro straight to the point instruction. Well done .... Scored a subscriber here...

Nice video, and build for that matter! Just as an FYI; I've added (optional and customizeable) acceleration/deceleration to the script since you made this vid, makes it easier to make smoothly moving builds!

This is great, many thanks for posting.

That's a really cool build. MARMOS is another script that does mechanical arms, though the learning curve is brutal.

Good work!

Nice tutorial. This works great for a base crane. I am guessing you would need to add a dedicated cockpit on a vehicle. Looking forward to trying this. Ty

THANKS great information

Very nice

would it not be smarter to swap the wrist hinge and rotor? So you could hinge/rotate in a corner? nice explanation btw

Does this script have problem working with other scripts and/or subgrids and controllers? Trying to use with Splitsie’s WIP crane.

Thank you!

anyone know how to increase the up and down range of motion? seems to be only a few degrees for me

They've updated this mod so that you may also need to specify the name of the cockpit block. This would most likely only matter if you have more than one.

I recently created this but placed on a large mobile grid (large grid rover) the script doesn't seem to be working. I placed another cock pit that allows me to drive with WASD keys but when inside the crane cockpit no controls work nor does the wheels of the rover. Game was restarted as well. No extra programmable blocks. I'm guessing this will only work on a base grid?

Thank U. . ~~🙂♾😎

like #1000. I'm trying to do this on xbox

Nice

could you use this for a drill arm as well or no?

Just followed along to put this on a small grid truck of mine. Wonderful tutorial, however I have one part of it not working. The Hinge Wrist is a limp noodle for whatever reason. Any ideas?

i built this inside a large ship in space and nothing is moving. i will get motion on the top rotor if i build a gyroscope on the crane but nothing else moves, i used your same naming convention and the only difference in my design is that i built it upside down. i tried moving things around in the script incase i needed the arm support to be different but to no avail there is no difference. any thoughts?

I have noticed that if you replace the cockpit, I need to replace all of the mechanical blocks in order for it to work again Is there a faster way to "reset" the grid?

As soon as I attach the support piston, it's stuck, no movement at all, grind it off and everything works fine, so it can't lift, any ideas😮

This is a fantastic video, but did the interface for the programmable block change? I do not see the edit option or an ability to browse to the script. :(

For some reason after naming everything properly the script just wont respond to recompile or run, it will run being copied straight from the workshop however when I set the names the script goes silent, on it's own grid with no other programmables running either, am I doin something wrong?

Question, does this work on vehicles like small ships or perhaps freighters?

i would like to do something like this on xbox series x it can be done i just started playing space engineers can someone help me thank you in advance

Can u add to mod io

What if I want to switch between driving and using the crane?

I make all of you did, but don't work :-( Construct exactly the same. No error message in prog. bloc (names of hinge, rotor & pistons correctly reading) Nothing move, I don't understand...

Reckon this could be used to operate a drill too?

I don't suppose this will work for the XBOX version or will it with the correct script or even this script but modified to accept controller inputs in stead. Baring in mind I no nothing about script other than that it's basically a set of instructions beyond this I don't know exactly what script is.

Cannot for the life of me get this to work, the controls do not map at all but the programable block says everything is good. Ive checked the names ad theyre all good. OK I managed to make the pistons work, I was using the industrial cockpit so i switched it to the regular and it will map the pistons but not the rotors. Their torque is 0 and unlocked, i cant see im doing anything wrong.

I cannot control the wrist

why my crane wobble so much

You can also build it without a script by just using the keys in your hotbar to adjust velocity of each part but that way it won't be mouse controlled

For me it doesnt work sadly

I just made a mobile crane on a small grid trailer and it exploded after I lighted something too heavy😂

But im on xbox!