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Improvised Engineering (Grid Pickup/Holding/Manipulation Mod) Nicknamed: Grabby Hands
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Character, Other
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Nov 19, 2022 @ 6:28pm
Nov 22, 2022 @ 3:48pm
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Improvised Engineering (Grid Pickup/Holding/Manipulation Mod) Nicknamed: Grabby Hands

Description
Description
This mod enables you to
  • Grab Blocks
  • Carry/Drag Blocks
  • Rotate Blocks
  • Throw warhead Blocks at your friends.

THIS VERSION WON'T WORK IN MULTIPLAYER. USE THE LINK BELOW
Multiplayer/Server only in Experimental/Test Version of the mod. LINK BELOW to that version
Improvised Experimentation

You can grab all Grids that are below 20x20x20m in dimensions but you might not be able to lift them in gravity!

You can only grab and hold grids if you have nothing equipped!

A colored line will indicate where you hold the grid, where you want to move it to, and how well your plan works.
Green line means you are not to far away from the grid and are strong enough.
Red line means you are almost to far away and might not be strong enough to move the grid.
After 8m you will lose grip and the grid will be released

It is based on the GridPickupMod by Math0424 with hopefully a few improvements.
Do not add both mods to your world

Controls

Controls
Default Key
Action
Reload
R (press)
Grab or Drop blocks
Use tool / Fire weapon
LMB (hold)
Stop free rotation and
enable block placement rotation
Secondary mode
RMB (press)
Toggle Holding Position
(Grap Point / Center of Mass)
Use tool / Fire weapon + Secondary mode
LMB (hold) + RMB (press)
Throw Blocks forward
?
Mouse Scrollwheel
Move Blocks away from or closer to you

Technical Details
When the player is
- floating
- is in space (p-gravity = 0)
- flying with his jetpack
the maximum force is 1100N ~ 100kg lifting

When the player is
- standing on a planet
- standing on a grid (station or ship) in gravity (p-gravity != 0)
the maximum force is
- 11000N ~ 1000kg lifting for 1g or above and
- 1100N + 9900N * p-gravity for 0g-1g

Actio est Reactio

If the player is lifting a 200kg Block on Earth (~1962N) and standing on a dynamic grid then an equal opposite force will be applied to the grid where he is standing


RECOMMENDED WITH THIS MOD

KNOWN BUGS
  • Block Rotation is not the same as Block Placement Rotation
    => end/insert/... does not always rotate around the same axis
  • Line will not be totally red if you are at maximum distance but are not applying maximum force
    => applied force is realtive to grid mass to prevent ridiculous acceleration on light grids. (fixed in experimental)
  • Only the host can move grids in multiplayer. => Clients side thinks all grids have 0 mass and add no force because of that. (fixed in experimental)

ROADMAP
https://trello.com/b/go1yVFUx/improvised-engineering

BUG REPORTING
If you encounter a bug with this mod, please post a new discussion topic.
Any reports posted in the regular comments will be deleted (and moved into a dicussion if I have the motivation). If the bug resulted in crashing your game, please put the game's log on Pastebin and give me the link.
You can find the game's log in %AppData%\SpaceEngineers\SpaceEngineers.log
or with the blue "log" text in the crash message after the crash. Any details of how to reproduce the issue are greatly appreciated.

Please be so kind and not just reupload the mod. Only upload a new mod base on this one if you changed it in a major way and I refused to add those changes to the original mod

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Popular Discussions View All (9)
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Jul 17 @ 5:38pm
Suggestions
mz
12
Jan 8 @ 4:44am
Adding Mod to an already existing DS world...
amsedal
4
Mar 6, 2023 @ 6:50am
Unusable when far away from center
MrWurste
200 Comments
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drako1lv Jul 22 @ 5:24am 
then maybe is a mod making it glitch out
mz  [author] Jul 22 @ 5:01am 
a bug caused by a past event shouldn't be possible. I don't save anything in the mod and every time you open the world the mod is like it was new
drako1lv Jul 21 @ 4:56pm 
i think it glitched out when i grab a block that was undergorund and pull it out and since then it doesn't stay put even holding with lmb i can see the block spinning
Abisius Jul 16 @ 4:01am 
@drako1lv
rmb just switcher where you grab it.

you need to press lmb to stop rotation and enbale the rotation keys as its stated in the moddescription.
drako1lv Jul 16 @ 1:54am 
whatever i grab it doesn't stay still it keeps rotationg and when RMB to hold from moving it doesn't rotate in the direction i want with keypad
ac_snowman Jul 2 @ 4:57pm 
Absolutely love this mod! Primarily play Scrapyard based games so this is essential.

One minor question though...how in the name of Klang do you manage this in zero g? I can't seem to move anything without some combination of losing control, sending myself or the block hurtling into deep space, smashing into literally everything and exploding all blocks involved, and random acceleration of myself and the block in random directions?

Is there a decent how-to guide somewhere on youtube that someone can point me to?
mz  [author] Jun 26 @ 4:20pm 
With LMB and RMB. one (by clicking) switches your holdposition to the center of mass of the object you are holding -> should prevent auto rotation.
the other one (by holding) activly tries to prevent any rotation (and while holding also enables the rotation keys that you also use for rotating blocks in build mode
mcbobbo Jun 25 @ 6:14pm 
How the hell am I supposed to weld an interior turret? Why does it keep flopping upside down???
Abisius Jun 7 @ 3:54pm 
@Zogann
just to make sure as we already had a case where this did help:
- you did had empty hands (no tools, no blocks, no weapons)?
- you where outside of any seat?
- you didnt try to lift a 2kt rover/ship?
Zogann Jun 7 @ 3:16pm 
hello! i cant get graby hands to work ): . normally, i have reload set to middle mouse button, but even when i reset it to R, grabby hands still doesnt work.