Advanced Grabbing Unit (AGU) (The Klaw) needs improvement

[acerola]

In the current version, 1.3.1, the AGU is very hard to use. Specially in missions where you need to recover parts from space.

The problem is that it requires a very small angle range to catch the target. For big ships or asteroids, it is not hard, but for small parts, it is.

In the part.cfg, I changed captureMinFwdDot to zero. Now it works just fine for grabbing floating parts.

So, I suggest that this parameter should be lowered. Maybe it does not need to be zero to work, but it needs to be lowered.

[NSEP]

I support this. If it does not require hours of work to fix, and only needs a few minutes to fix, i have absolutely nothing against it.

[insert_name]

I think that in some cases you want a low angle, maybe make that value adjustable

[Kerbal pancake]

I third this

[John FX]

Put it on a tweakable. At least make it available to advanced tweakables.

[0something0]

Perhaps make it so there are different tiers of grabbing units with diffrent angles? It doesn't really make sensr that the node containing ARM is a dead end.

[swjr-swis]

13 hours ago, 0something0 said:

Perhaps make it so there are different tiers of grabbing units with diffrent angles? It doesn't really make sensr that the node containing ARM is a dead end.

A Giganto-Claw to grab small moons and pull them off rails seems like the logical endpoint on that path...