Ship Not Docking

cheeseontoast

This is the first time ive had this happen and its doing my head in with a big hammer

the problem im having is this custom ship i have put in game, is not docking on ANY BASES. whats wierd is, i can dock with everything else, and all the other ships can dock as normal (granted they are the vanilla ships). has anyone else had this issue and if you have have how did you fix’d it?

cheers lol ^^

Worfeh

Small question, are you using FLAC in test mode?
I had that once when i didn’t add the dockgroups to the ships i added to a mod.

Other than that, you added the ship dock behaviour?```
mission_property = can_use_berths

cheeseontoast

done all that stuff and i dont have FLAC lol, im using my own machine to host.

foxUnit01

Does the ship have an HpMount? I’ve found that this is the one mount needed for ships to function correctly, and if it doesn’t have this, well, nothing works. I first discovered this when porting solar objects to be pilotable ships - if the ship didn’t have an HpMount, I would undock in the middle of nowhere, and would be unable to undock.

Dragnite_MU

If you have an HP mount i suggest moving it around a bit till you find the optimum spot for it, we had to do this with some ships on MU.

Bejaymac

Already sorted guy’s, cheesy I’ll tell you the problem when you get your ass on MSN

cheeseontoast

i hate friendly fire. xD

KNEW IT WASNT MY FAULT :@

mumbles on wasting a months worth of modding time

FriendlyFire

You know… YOU made that WT_shiparch.ini file. Look at the SVN if you don’t trust me ;D

Unicornz

@cheese:

i hate friendly fire. xD

KNEW IT WASNT MY FAULT :@

mumbles on wasting a months worth of modding time

Well, what was it we’re all dying to know

FriendlyFire

Basically, it seems like Freelancer won’t read properly more than one shiparch INI file. The ships work fine, but they won’t dock… Moving the definition to the main shiparch file fixed the issue instantly.

I sometimes hate FL with a passion

Unicornz

ahhh well thats something else i’ll need to remember then

i got a ship with two thrusters in th ecmp, two in the shiparch and they wont work, cant see any valid reason for it, but thats fl for ya.

I suppose theres gotta be a reason, but i can’t find it anywhere

StarTrader

@Unicornz:

i got a ship with two thrusters in th ecmp, two in the shiparch and they wont work, cant see any valid reason for it, but thats fl for ya.

I suppose theres gotta be a reason, but i can’t find it anywhere

If you can mount 2 thrusters then the HPs are OK. If not then recheck the names you used and check the shiparch.ini entry.

If they are mountable but seem to have no effect, the usual reason is their thrust is not enough. If it’s a large ship with big mass then you will need lots of ooomph to see a difference in speed.

Unicornz

thanks startrader, it is a big ship, never added thrusters to a big ship before, so i didnt know this.
appreciated m8

cheeseontoast

yea, just make your thrusters 10000000000000 power and your set. ofc… once you do that and touch thrust, say good bye to Kansas.