How to make a Roid Miner dockable?

Moonhead wrote:

StarTrader wrote:

[Solar]
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docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountA, 20
docking_sphere = jump, HpDockMountB, 500

Hmmm, these lines are different in my SolarArch.ini…. Maybe they are the key!

Yep, it’s working now!! Very buggy, but that’s of the typos I prolly made coz of the eagerness of trying it out.

StarTrader - Thanks a million!!

Actually I never delved into these docking_sphere lines… I prolly should, but it didn’t occur to me DA/MS would have messed them up, or whatever.

Now I gotta debug and then fix all the robot traders

Eh? I’m confused. The miner has the hardpoints (minus the launch/dock cam afaik), and every object you dock with has the dock sphere lines…

So what did you have in your files? I’m confused as you never posted up what you had for starters (I know it’s solved, but apparently DA/MS messed something up!).

Moonhead wrote:

Chips wrote:

Eh? I’m confused. The miner has the hardpoints (minus the launch/dock cam afaik), and every object you dock with has the dock sphere lines…

So what did you have in your files? I’m confused as you never posted up what you had for starters (I know it’s solved, but apparently DA/MS messed something up!).

I had these lines:

docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountA, 5
docking_sphere = moor_large, HpDockMountB, 5.000000

and, after going thru StarTrader’s entries, changed them to

docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountA, 20
docking_sphere = jump, HpDockMountB, 500

No idea how they came in my SolarArch.ini files… My mod project is quite extensive, and I abandoned it a few years, and from several things I do not recall how they came to be.

EDIT: the first set of lines can be found in the FLSDKs 1.3 and 1.5 too. So that’s where I got them.

Player ships could never dock at moors, so if you were trying a ship with CAN_USE_BERTH (or whatever the line is) then that may have been a clue

Chips wrote:
Player ships could never dock at moors

that’s right. never. they never could until adoxa offered us his moors.dll allowing it.

You sure about that Gisteron, iirc it was Chips who came up with how to use the jump command on moors donkeys years ago. I remember reading one of his tutorials on TLR clearly explaining it. I’ve had player ships docking at moors since around 2005.

nah, if you make a moor hardpoint to jump or a ship to have mission property of can_use_[moor type] its only a workaround. with the moor type you cannot dock in MP and with the jump on moor hardpoints, all of the fighter and freighter npc’s start using moors. adoxa offered us a solution: you jump after mooring while the moor stays inaccessible to berth users.

docking_sphere = jump <param2, param3=“”>does work in MP. but it causes everything to tend docking on the sphere rather than any berth or moor hardpoint.
on the other hand, if you define your capship to use moors, then you cannot dock with a moor type docking_sphere in MP. as said, the jump sphere is a workaround. moors.dll in contrast does only change that a player’s ship with a moor type mission property can not only moor to a point in MP but will be jumped to the base, like if it were a jump sphere. the difference is - a ship with can_use_berths still cannot make use of the moor points but only of the berths. with a jump sphere any ship can dock. sometimes that’s too much.</param2,>

jump works fine in MP It just doesn’t offer restrictions Sometimes you don’t want certain ships docking - hence why moors were always desirable.

The other problem was un-docking and getting stuck… depending upon where you launch from of course.

I’ve heard about the moor.dll by Adoxa, it was always one of my wishes (moors worked as long as you had the moor property, and pressed esc in docking cinematic. If you wait til the end of the cinematic, you got stuck) to see it work properly, so if it does now - awesome. I haven’t tried it out yet

The idea of using other types than Berths was due to Victor iirc - especially Jump, and it went back to 2003

But the point wasn’t all this, the point was why your initial attempts didn’t work. If you had the moors.dll work around, then what happened? I was just wondering if you’d forgotten to change the type is all

Funny how these young kids think they just discovered everything now, and others didn’t find anything before.

Don’t listen to ST. He’s just a grumpy old rabbit.

Moonhead wrote:
I’m not claiming that I just discovered anything, except the solution someone else found before me.

Yeah, that is called “exploring”.
I can’t yet understand why it didn’t work to you with the Roid Miner. With me it all works just fine!