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Vertical Replenishment (VERTREP) mission

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Started toying with this idea today -- fly a helo with hoist and sling to move cargo from the deck one ship over onto the deck of the carrier. Right away, I ran into trouble making the 'cargo' objects sit on deck of the ship. The ship moves, the objects do not, and so they just fall off into the water. Any pointers?

EDIT: I manged to make it sit OK on the carrier deck, although it shifts or skids a few feet along the deck at the start of the mission. Am not sure, but I think unclicking the 'object sitting on ground' helped.

Had much less success making it show up on my resupply ship - it seems to move around on deck more, and more often than not it slides off the deck into the water. I tried adjusting the speed of the ship and that had no effect.

In both cases it drops and crashes onto the deck, kicking up a cloud of dust (need those sailors to swab the deck a little better before flight ops).

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Maybe play with the values in the sim.cfg file of the objects. In any case make the ship go straight with a low and even speed.
 
Thanks for the suggestion -- I also did more experimenting, and this is what I found:

The speed of the ship did not seem to play a role. However, the timing of the objects actually appearing on deck did make a big difference in the behavior.

I used a timer trigger, gave my AI ships 3 seconds to become more stable, and then spawned the cargo objects.

In this case I did use the 'objects on ground' and this now works great.

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