Capships hanging up on undocking
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The problem with using FLAC to get moors working properly is the amount of bs you have to go through to get planetary docking to work as it should. Adoxa’s mooring plugin is the best way to get it to work properly. Yes it’s an addon but it does do the job. You need to add camera views but you get a proper mooring instruction from traffic control, plus you undock backwards from a moor, just like the npcs.
I have no experience with Hook so no idea how that works at all. I also have no idea why Eagle made it so difficult to use moors for planets in FLAC, only he’d know.
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that moors.dll is your best best robo…
anything else is a mountian of work in comparison, that addon will gain you extra functionality and solve your undocking problem.
You simply assign a dockpoint to be the moor in the base .ini
Then you tell the big ships to use moors when docking.Tweak to taste,
Problem solved… and im pretty sure it’ll work with FLAC or anything really like most of Adoxa’s extra’s
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I was finally able to get moors.dll working properly. The problem was that I had made the mission_property = can_use_medium_moors instead of can_use_med_moors which must’ve defaulted undocking to the berths when it didn’t recognize the docking_sphere indicated.
It’s working fine now. Now I’ll need to see what you mean by the camera views. The plugin readme refers to undocking from Trenton so I’ll start there.
Thanks for the help.
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Well, taking a step back…
Moors works great, ships dock and undock from the moors rather than the berths which fixes the original problem. The problem now is that moors.dll seems to take precedence over FLAC’s ability to block/allow docking by ship type. The bases in New London are set to allow only FIGHTERS and FREIGHTERS to dock but capships (CAPS) are able to dock using the moors.I’m going to double check everything to make sure I have things configured properly.
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On a hunch I double checked the FLAC settings and found that I was able to moor because my ship was set as an admin ship. As soon as I removed the admin setting the ship was no longer able to moor.
I believe I’m all squared away. Thanks to all for helping, especially Adoxa for the plugin.
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If docking is not an issue, move the HpMount on the ships that exhibit this behaviour 200m below the ship, as suggested earlier in the thread. This will cause the ship to undock 200m above the base, likely well clear of it.
If you had been using FlHook, the “moors” plugin by Adoxa is an option - it makes capital ships using medium and large moors undock in reverse, like the vanilla transports do.
