Zero-G Angle manipulation

[towerofpower256]

Hi there,

I'm working on some code for a little spaceship thingo and I've hit a bit of a road block where it comes to changing the bearing.

I'm looking to have it change it's bearing in accordance to the physics engine, not simply pointing it instantly like a GyroPod. I'd like to have it so that if the entity runs into something, it will bounce and feel kick-back instead of flipping-out as it tries to maintain its target angle and possibly crash the server.

At the moment I have:

local targAng = Angle(0,90,0) --Or whatever
local curAng = self.Entity:GetAngles()
local diffP = curAng.p - targAng.p
local diffY = curAng.y - targAng.y
local angRate = 60 --Or whatever

if diffP < 0 then
	finalP = angRate
else
	finalP = angRate * -1
end

if diffY < 0 then
	finalY = angRate
else
        finalY = angRate * -1
end

local finalAng = Vector(0,finalY,finalP)
finalAng:Rotate(-1*extEnt:EyeAngles())

finalAng.x = 0 --I don't want it rolling
	
physObj:AddAngleVelocity(finalAng)

but it just goes slow in a random direction, then freaks out.

Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong here?