This is going to be a god send for me i have a ship that need about 10k gyros in order to just roll so this should help with lag.

i have honestly stopped playing almost entirely, if someone else wants to "take over" go ahead

love this one, do you plan a dx11 texture version?

can you maybe relative the power to stock vanilla gyros? :-)

I want to know that how many times stronger than a normal large gyroscope?I 'm building a star ship it's close to a million tons,so I need a powerful gyroscope!

i put this on the miner in easy start 1 map...didnt end well...somhow it self destructed sending me 1.3 trillion miles away....fun

Great!

Progress update: the model itself is nearly completed, textures and the panel are up next

You saved my day! Thanks!

Any word from Syslis? I'm really looking forward to the 2x2x2 gyros! :)

Could you make one that is the size of a regular large ship gyro but is twice the power, as i have a pre built ship but it turns very slowly and i want to upgrade the turning, but there is no room to put any more gyros.

A 2x2x2 gyro does sound like a good idea at 32x the power, I'll add it in when I get the finished model from Syslis sometime soon.

That multiplied (r^2) term does wonders for the efficiency of gyroscopes as they scale up. Also, I approve of a middle-weight 2x2x2 gyroscope; something to split the difference between the two sizes and give ship designers more options.

I like this. and also Kolbrims idea of a 2x2x2.

So.. my old carrier has 1200 gyroes... now it has 5 of these... so much better use all that space :D
Thank you for this

It's a bit scary how effective these are. I was thinking it might also be great to have a medium, 2x2x2 gyro using the same equations: 8x the mass and (8*m)*(2*r)^2 = 32x the effectiveness. What do you think?

Well, if it wernt so tedious i'd make all of my ships small. higher definition

Excellent!

@Kolbrim: I bumped it up closer to the 27x on the plates, components, and tubes. leaving the rest down lower.

In exchange for 243x effectiveness? Not worth 27x material costs and 27x construction time? This would still be massively, massively worth it!! As I said, I really like your thinking but in its current form I can't help but feel the trade off is a bit silly. You're justifying the improvement with physics but then violating your own equation! Please excuse my bluntness, but as a university physics student my response is quite sincere :)

Korbrim: the originally were much higher, but i found something like +20k steal plates to be a bit much. I tried to keep it in the realm of feasibility, rather than scale it appropriately and have the survival player weld for days on end

An important note: in your calculation you assume a cubed mass (3^3=27x) but your material costs don't reflect this. Your materials as multiples of the stock costs:

Steel Plate: ~11x
Constuction Components: 20x
Large Steel Tubes: 12.5x
Motors: 15x
Computers: 2x

Given that plates, tubes and construction components have masses of 20, 25 and 8 kgs, respectively, there needs to be far more materials required to explain all that torque these things are exerting! I like your thinking though :)

@dontstoplivin: meh, i'm used to it and the mispronunciations that come with it.
@Syslis: I think i might take you up on that offer

I'm a 3D modeler, I'd be happy to make a new model for you for this mod if you like. If you're interested, just drop me a friend request and we can talk about it~

Yay! Awesome quick response namAehT (btw your name is a nightmare for dyslexia sufferers fyi XD )

@Phaeroth I believe you're right with that. Sorry about the bad math, was just roughing it together with what I remembered from High School Physics. I will change the force value on it because I too find it a bit over powered.

No idea about the math on that Phaeroth, (way over my head), but that somehow does sound better just looking at its size.

@Lt. Jos The gyroscope should make the ship turn faster.

@namAehT I definitely like the larger-scale gyroscope, it makes ship design SIGNIFICANTLY less irritating, but I think there's an extra factor of 3 in there.
Since α=T*I and the T is what's being applied to the ship, to maintain the same α we need T to scale appropriately with I.
I'll say the small gyrscope's moment of inertia is just m(r^2) for simplicities sake. For a 3x3, the mass scales by the cube but the radius scales linearly, so we get 27*m*(3*r^2)=27*9*m*(r^2)=243*m*(r^2)
So 243 times. Conveniently, this makes the gyroscope more handy for ships in the 15-30 million kg range as well, since 729 gyroscopes on ships of those size verges on absurd.

Do those gyroscopes make the ship move faster or turn faster?

changing the power consumption would be a very good think
I just saw I haven't say : Good Job ^^
PS foUrth Horseman

so its the same power as 729 gyros?
if so better title would be gyro on steroids

@namAehT Awesome, thanks.

@Republiken I hope to do that sometime soon, need to learn how to use blender

Please make the control panel smaller and within reach from the floor.

@The Forth Horseman, 27x the power, but i'm considering changing that since that's less than 1% of a small reactor

The first time I saw this, I've think "cheat", but after reading yours justification I'va only a question
What's the power consumption ??
Sorry for mistake, I'm French.

@LookAtMyHorse "that provides 729x more force than the stock one"

thank god! the most desired mod for large ships!

so is it more powerful than 27 gyros or it's of same power?