Docking Ports: Undock vs decouple - What's the diff?

[Wallygator]

Can anyone please quickly explain the difference? Just curious...

[eddiew]

Decouple happens when you connected ports in the VAB or SPH. You can actually connect them to anything, and still have the decouple option, which gives a nice no-push way to deploy satellites from cargo bays, rather than throwing them out with a separator.

Undock means you've docked two ports, post-launch.

Not sure there's any real difference in functionality

[Wallygator]

Thanks.

So if a port has a part attached to it which is not another docking port, then you choose "decouple"?

And if the part is a docking port then you choose "undock"?

Nothing on the Wiki... no other documentation I can see - still quite confusing.

I trust this will be perfectly described and clear to understand when 1.0 appears ;-)

[phunk]

Thanks.

So if a port has a part attached to it which is not another docking port, then you choose "decouple"?

And if the part is a docking port then you choose "undock"?

Nothing on the Wiki... no other documentation I can see - still quite confusing.

I trust this will be perfectly described and clear to understand when 1.0 appears ;-)

Not sure it matters if the other object is another docking port, I think it only matters when they were connected. You'd only decouple parts that were connected in the VAB.

[-Velocity-]

Not sure it matters if the other object is another docking port, I think it only matters when they were connected. You'd only decouple parts that were connected in the VAB.

Correct, it doesn't matter. If a docking port is connected to something else in the VAB/SPH, then you will have to "decouple" it in game, regardless of what it is connected to.