See height of part in SPH/VAB

[Rockyfelle185]

If you ever tried to build a refueling station you probably encountered the most annoying problem, matching up the docking port of the vehicle with the docking port of the refueling station, of course this problem applies to much more than that example.

My suggestion is to be able to see the height a part above the lowest area of the craft, this fairly simple addition would allow you to instantly know what height to place your for example docking port to have it match up with the thing you're docking to, this is really essential to ground vehicles, whilst being of no use in space, as of now you have to manually guess the approximate height of the part you want to match up and then fix it by trial and error.

This would also make constructing bases a lot easier.

As per ideas given by the below comments, this suggestion is now split into 2 suggestions

First one being the previously described height displayer for the choosen part.

Second one being a sort of landing gear, that would allow you to raise and lower your craft, it would simply be placed as any other landing gear, and would be able to raise or lower the craft to match up with whatever it should dock to, this will be really useful for crafts using wheels, as it can be hard to build a specific height, and you may want to be able to dock crafts that are not designed to have the same height.

ADVISE: While this is now 2 suggestions, the reason they're being suggested is for the same single reason, implementing one does not solve what the other one would do, even if both are there to reach the same end goal, these are not anything that would change too much gameplay wise, but it would definitely allow for a whole new experience in making land bases that are easily connected with vehicles.

Edited May 7, 2015 by Rockyfelle185
Added another suggestion.

[Hcube]

Engineers report gives you the total height of your ship !

[THX1138]

Engineers report gives you the total height of your ship !

That doesn't help much with aligning docking ports. The VAB/SPH does need some way to align parts between crafts IMO.

[adinfinitum]

It'd be nice if they had some sort of hydraulic jack too, just like a vertical landing leg that can move up and down a certain distance. Then all your buildings and vehicles wouldn't have to be the same exact height.

[THX1138]

They could do with some moving parts, yeah.

[Rockyfelle185]

I have updated the OP to account for the new part suggestion you have provided, whilst still keeping the original suggestion for obvious reason, now all we can do is get this as much discussion as possible and hope for SQUAD to see the value of it.