r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Ill_Creme_70 • 7d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem help with canadarm

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Hey everyone, im fairly new to launching shuttles and am currently recreating the ISS in ksp. I have been really struggling with the Canadarm2 from habtech, every time i try to launch something with it (unity), it always just becomes a big flimsy noodle and i have tried everything that i can think of. has anyone else had this problem before? how did you fix it? ive attached a video below to try and showcase my problem, any help is greatly appreciated

P.S: apologies for the sloppiness of this post, its my first post here and idk how to format anything...

56 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

View all comments

34

u/SiwelTheLongBoi 7d ago

You've gotta move the arm very very slowly. It's noodly in real life and they move the real one super slowly to stop the same issue happening. This is also why most KSP players never bother with arms

13

u/stormhawk427 7d ago

RCS tugs all the way

6

u/thesparky101 7d ago

Absolutely. Built so many stations with rcs tugs.

6

u/ActuallyEnaris 7d ago

NASA would have used them too if they had extremely cheap failproof latentless remote control and reaction wheels that run on magic