Just this one simple addition (controller block) has opened up SO many awesome ideas, I'm waiting for people to start using it to do welding and grinding robots along with the turrets.

I’m so glad the devs added all this new combat stuff, fighting other grids just using range limits was getting old

4:29 This wiggle is mostly caused by the azimuth and elevation speed multipliers being way too high for mass and inertia of the turret head. Not only do the multipliers apply to the mouse input, they also apply to the AI's. The AI drives the rotors and hinges as hard as it can to reach the permitted speeds, which it never will if mass and inertia are too high, subsequently failing to slow down early enough to hit the required bearings. The turret overshoots, and the chase continues, now in the opposite direction. The heavier the moving parts overall, the lower those settings must be if you want to prevent or minimize overshooting. That said, adjusting the torque of the rotors and hinges has an effect, too, but there is only so much you can increase that parameter before the numbers appear in scary red. Finally, setting the inertia tensor share _only_ on the hinge, not the rotor, too, seems to help as well without slowing the whole turret to a crawl by making it share the tensor with the entire grid.

Sharing the inertia tensor on the hinge greatly recude the wiggle.

Placing the cannon in line with the hinge at ±0° actually restricts your arcs of fire. By placing it transversely, (i.e. the gun points to 90° when the hinge is at ±0°), you get gun depression and you don't lose the ability to fire the other way because you can get that by rotating the turret. Which of the two is actually better would depend on application. Something designed to take on fighters and that will be mounted with a hemispherical FOV doesn't need gun depression and benefits from the lack of a central stop. OTOH, if you're putting a heavy turret on a ground vehicle you really want to be able to fire horizontally while parked just short of the crest of a hill.

Oh boy, it's been a while since I found the last Splitsie tutorial full of new info. If there is one thing I'm really happy about with this update, it's MORE SPLITSIE CONTENT. WHOO!

The *Ball Turret* can be made easier. If the hinge block is facing up in a natural gravity well, like in the video, you can just place a filler block (armor/whatever) in the center of the big hinge block and let it fall, then, if the big hinge block is small grid, you place the hinge part on top and attach. If the big hinge block is large grid you place another filler block on top and a hinge part on top of that one and attach. (In either case the hinge part will be instantly rotated to fit the motion range of the big hinge.) If you're outside of natural gravity you can just place the small hinge part in the center and attach.

There are a lot of good SE channels on KZfaq these days but Splitsie still makes the best tutorials

A multiple controller 'crane' might actually work very well as a refueling boom. In small grid you would need a small connector (or modified small ejector) and probably a small advanced rotor. The controllers would each control one arm joint. Shoulder, elbow and wrist controllers. Now if only you could tell a controller to track the sun . . .

I used your first 3 tutorials to get myself competent enought to start learning on my own. Thanks a bunch!

I have successfully gotten both rotors and hinges to work with a battleship-style Railgun turret setup, going to mess with pistons to see if I can give them a recoil effect. I think this is probably the best update SE has ever gotten

I feel so happy for you Splitsie, having more time to do what you love most! Btw I hadn't noticed the AI-range difference between the controller blocks. I've been making these "Ball Turrets" for a while now (with scripts) and since the update I just slapped the small controller inside of them, not realizing that I'm giving away 200m of engagement... LOL Thanks!

So great tutorial - I was actually wondering how that turret was done. Thank you for showing us the trick. But I gotta say, I really enjoyed that very last shot where your character just glides to their death while standing at the detached helm of his ship - really gave me the captain-saluting-on-the-deck-of-the-ship-as-it-goes-down vibes! :D

I love the new tutorials (also the idea to redo the old ones. Well done Splitsie looking forward to the rest (any SE content of yours is fun). The idea for the crane is sweet. As soon as you said it the idea seemed so obvious but yes this will indeed make it accesable for simpletons like me aswell. So cool!

I am soooo happy to get another tutorial from you splitsie, i have been waiting for ages. thank you!!

I had been struggling to get this sucker to attach for 2 hours now, you sir, are fantastic for sharing this trick to get it to work, THANK YOU.

so glad to see a regular splitsie video instead of a live stream, I've greatly missed your content and I simply dont have the time to watch the live streams... hope you have more coming soon!

well this was insightful, I've been struggling with getting The script version to run, but then i ended up purchasing the warfare content and saw this block. soooo much more freedom. and to quote: "It just works." i also thanks to you, now know how to fix my controls being reversed. cause i made a turret and my elevation controls were reversed and it made it really hard to aim with. Another thing was i never thought they would work with hinges, i assumed it only worked with rotors, so that freed up and gives me access to more compact designs. thanks Splitsie

sir your a legend, thank you for another super helpful tutorial. i just spend like 7 hours fumbling around trying to get it to work and then boom after 3mins of your video IV GOT IT! HALLELUJAH!

You make the best tutorials for Space Engineers. Thank you so much

As usual you're front and center on SE Splitsie, thank you for the tips

Great tutorial. You also demonstrated one of the changes I really like: Small grids don't get immediately destroyed by turrets, they can take a few hits. It means that you can design survivability into small grid vehicles.

Thank you for 1) being so fast with this 2) explaining it so even I can understand

As always, a great tutorial, Splitsie!

Really great breakdown Splitsie. I can't wait to play about with this stuff and equally, can't wait to see what the you and the wider SE crew can do with this.

Thank you for this awesome guide

I feel like It's been over a year since I've been able to watch your videos. catching up on Survival Impossible the past few days the road is looking good up the mountain. I'm currently building a KMS Scharnhorst and was dreading having to build a crane for a float plane. this update will make that so much easier. I look forward to what you got next you definitely inspire me when I play this game. :)

Another great tutorial Splitsie, thank you!

The "wrong" launcher reminded me of the pixar lamp with the way it was derping about :D

Can't wait to build those turrets! THANKS

I love the use of these in proximity guided missiles. By putting a gyroscope on the turret (or 2 gyros on 2 turrets for full range of motion) you can have a ship turn itself towards a targeted grid, making for missiles that track anything within 800 meters and might even shoot as they approach

Beautiful, I've been wanting this for a long time

I missed having a tutorial from you Splitsie. I can't wait for the return of your other series now that there's more functionality and creative possibilities for them.

I'm so happy they added this

One of the best Blocks !!

Can't wait to try these out. Cheers Splitsie

That crane idea is so freaking cool. Can't wait to see it in Survival Impossible. (:

The tutorial master is back at it again!!

Splitsie! FUEL CRITICAL !!!!

Thanks for this tutorial, I was struggling so hard to use the custom turret controller

Anyone else think that "wrong way to do it" with the hinge first, then rotor -- looked like a giant toucan pecking at the ground? :) I didn't even know these blocks were in the game, so I love this video! Thanks Splitsie!

Yay, we can finally build things in vanilla that Digi's Control Module has let us build since 2016. :D Thank you for the tutorial! In addition to the neat tips, I also learned that a rotor-first, hinge-second design is a Splitsie turret and that a hinge-first, rotor-second design is a Capac turret (as evidenced @8:41). It even Capacs the Splitsie turret.

Very sneaky. I like some kind of ideas :) 👍

hey. So when these custom turret controllers came out the first thing I did was hop into my survival world and use them to make a search light for a small ship. This turned out to be extremely useful for the AI faction search contracts and turned what could previously be several minutes of frustrated searching for a tiny small grid objective within the 750m radius into a way to basically print free money.

Another awesome tutorial! It'll be cool to see how these new parts more accessible adds to the creativity in SE. Also, if you want scripts for fancy control systems, I'd be happy to write them.

Just at the right time, just came out of a session realising my old CIWS towers are too big for my new ship and I need to make new ones. This sure will come in handy!

it's been out for a few days and I'm still giddy about this update. Being able to easily control custom turrets is the most Space Engineers style feature they could have possibly added and opens up so many options for unique design!

thanks Splitsie, i've actually missed these tutorial videos

Thanks for that tiny rotor head trick, Splitsie. Gatling Turrets, even large grid ones, just do not cut it anymore.

Thanks for this tutorial, I couldn't figure out, how that small hinge head ended up in the big hinge by myself... now, I know! Thanks, Splitsie :)

Awesome on the crane ideas!! everything else too, but the crane!! over the top =)

One of the 1st vehicles I made in my survival game was a crane. Id used 2 controller blocks, as I didn't know that you could set hinges to passive. But watching your crane move widely around, I found that having control of the extra arm let me move stuff around with more precision.

Neat thing I've been testing here, you may not be able to control custom turrets while driving/flying, but other people can! All you need is a friend/friends/gunnery crew with some custom turrets and you're all set.

Thank you for this!!! I can finally improve my current ship project now by replacing those interior turrents with proper flak turrets.

Hey Splitsie love the video man.

I’ve found that the big red button DLC button panel works really well as a small, unobtrusive camera mount.

Will be looking forward into what your new builds on land, air and in space will be in the future with the new updates! :)

Hey Splitsie, love your content. Not really related to this video but to the update. I have not yet seen anyone talk about this, maybe you could find some interesting uses for this feature: "Cockpits now have the ability to trigger actions based on whether they are the target of a lock-on." And you can lock on to friendly targets. That means you could trigger set actions without scripts or antennae on up to 2km distance by just locking onto a grid. ofc you could do the same by shooting target dummies before this update, but I have not seen anyone use them this way. Two issues that I think (I have not played the update) are: 1) You need to have a weapon to lock on. 2) Target grid needs to have a cockpit (remote control probably has the same function) Not sure how to use this feature, but at the very least it's a sensor-less garage door opener, or an unpractical remote detonator for warheads.

Seems like it's been ages since a new Splitsie tutorial. Wahoo!

holy crap, this update/expansion is so cool

glad to see the chomper back!

Splitsie! Following your idea of the crane, I just had a wild thought: Two manned crane with welder blocks at the end... one being Capac and the other ... doesn't really matter because you'll have Capac manning a crane HAHA. Would love to see you trying to build something with that setup :). Keep the good work, you're basically my Netflix x"D. Cheers : )

These are so much fun. I've been playing around with this function for days now. My only complaint about them is that small block turrets tend to not survive combat situations; they're very fragile and get vaporized almost right away against similarly-powered matchups. Traditional turrets tend to be more durable. I still haven't found a practical solution for that yet.

Cheers, Thanks for this - I came here first for info about the New update.

everytime i think: but what if.... the answer is coming right at this moment. xd love ur guides!

Thank you splitsie for answering how to make the 1x1 hinge attach i was trying to figure out how it was done

So... this is basically Whip's scripts in block form. Nice! Thanks for the tutorial and I hope the dlc gives you a bit of inspiration for SI. You now have options to destroy those bases across the ice lake :D

Very useful. I will be using this to make drill heads in keen servers where they limit you to 5 drills.

Thank you this really helps

I'm surprised that they added such a technical and amazing feature to the game! I've always been a fan of the idea of having blocks interact more with each other. So you can do actual functional things with your builds

Always done better then everyone else

The thought of more Tutorials? Take my Thumbs up! also, solid Turret Controller Vid. I guess that worth a like too.

A good old Splitsie vidjayoh, no wrong ways and shenanigans.... nostalgia.

This is sick. I can't wait to make some stupidly cool stuff with this. And see what you end up doing XD

Nice at last a basic way to do cranes i normally do them and controll manually all the peaces

Not just cranes, but i been building a bunch of mining rovers lately, very useful to build a boom arm with drills on and it has been working great so far. Not being able to drive and control at the same time is not that big of a issue in a multiplayer setting. Multi crew mining is inefficient but way more fun.

Nice video i learn a lot thank you

I personally have made a small grid ship that can grab and place the "ball turret" part and I can slide it into the hinge. Has definitely helped out

"Captain! We're taking heavy ground fire.. Hull integrity failing. Destruction imminent!!" "Detach helm and deploy the Capac Decoy Clone.." "But sir.. it's the Splitsie clone at the helm they're still targeting the ship.."

This gets really interesting when paired with DraygoKorvan's "[QoL] Mechanical Keybinds" mod. It allowed me to basically make a Utility Robot Arm (URA) that I can move around with WASD movement as well as C and Space (for up and down) and then use the CTC Movement with the Mouse for the "fine control". Much more intuitive to move with that than using the number keys to control the Pistons and such. Now all you need to do is add a Welder, Grinder or Drill on the "Turret" part of the URA and we have a lot of control about it in a very intuitive and fun manner.

Well this gives alot of new ideas for survival impossable

Man, this is going to be a fun and interesting WWU episode this coming sunday, isnt it?

I would give almost anything to be able to play on the same server as splitsie, even if it was solely to watch the magic and learn what I almost certainly dont know about the nitty gritty little details that seem hidden through out SE.

One note about using those ball turrets is to make sure subgrid damage is turned OFF. I had one on a rover that would keep breaking until I turned subgrid damage off.

When I saw this block listed, I'd hoped this was exactly what it was for. It's nice that they've taken note of the fact that a lot of people like the ability to create custom turret setups and have now given us an easier method to use those with AI option without the need for a third party script. Personally, for cranes, I'd still use the PARK script because I just love it and find it so easy to use. Though for weapon turrets this is a game changer for me, can't wait to try out some designs.

I want to put my mining ship drills on a turret controller now. I don't think it'll be huge benefit, but it just sounds fun.

11:00 I actually came up with the idea to craft the Turret internals first and then pick them up with a crane or transport plane and set them into place, then lock. This works fine and could also be used as a method in automated factories, plus it looks badass :D btw. in space this is especially easy

Good vid

I can only imagine what this is going to do for the assertive mod :D

Turret control block is the single best addition to this game in a long long time.

Lmao, I love the flipping rainbow Engineer haha

With this new update and DLC I'm going to have to redesign my ships. Those large grid single block turrets look very cool!

Hippity hoppity, the enemies ships are now my property.

2:14 I actually think that it would be more beneficial to put it facing horizontally initially as you would gain gun depression. Of course it would be of less use if it's very much a true-surface-level turret rather than one slightly elevated, though I think that should be taken into consideration. Only other exception would be if these were also on pistons and would extend/retract out of a sort of hidey hole, where going vertical would be easier to manage.

I have been having success adding a small hinge to the big hinge by placing two small blocks on top of another in the big hinge (Not attached) and then adding the small hinge part on top of those two small blocks.

Awesome!

So far I used these new blocks for a Vtol idea and a bridge both being complete successes. This block is far more important then most of the dlc in my op. Edit: this is for Xbox where I don't get much access to fancy scripts

Actually hinges work fine if you got only a few guns but double rotors at mid-height of your gun array seems better as the moving part requires much less force to rotate the array if you build it balanced around the axis. I've seen some people having issues with these turrets damaging their grid or the grid they're locked on: that can be prevented by putting limits to the hinge/rotors to tell the thing to not go below its horizon. A bit specific: on using this system with WeaponCore. I have not yet found confirmation from other people but as far as I've tested these controllers are only partially usable with Weaponcore - They do not recognise WC weapons as usable weapons - If used with base game weapons they don't seem to take orders from WC's targeting system, so they cannot be used autonomously Now you can still use it manually, if you put the weapons (either default or WC) on the turret, set it up normally, then on your gunner seat in addition to "control turret" and "view camera" actions, you simply put the guns/etc in a group, set up a "Toggle click to fire" action. Then control the turret, use the camera (zoom mod recommended for long range weapons) and when you want to shoot you use the toggle click-to-fire. You might need to set the WC option "override" to fire the weapons manually. Overall a very nice addition to the game, I hope WC will get full compatibility with it soon. These turrets seem almost too precise and fast, so I wonder if they could be modded to make nerfed versions? Then again manufacturing the ammos for it must be its own nerf. But imagine, you're approaching a ship, seemingly unarmed, and suddendly panels open, pistons expand and these buggers start raining autocannon fire on your face... Can't wait to see if WWU's "bots" decide to play with that. I wonder if that can be put on a plane?

So, if your ok with limited range of movement on your turret and ok with setting a maximum height to it, you can extend the armer around the sides from the front of the turret, just to armor up your hing a little bit more. As much armor as small block can give. But I have a couple of ships I want to update with the new weapons and turret controllers, making the "server" room a little more alive with useable blocks on my Xbox single player world

I have done refuelling arms before with the ship going to the arm, now the arm can go to the ship, with mods like the piping one that would visually look great.