Trying to merge one craft onto another. Merge.

[THX1138]

Here I am trying to merge a craft I loaded onto another. Why is there no attachment point at the top of the pod? What is the use of the merge feature if you can't actually use it to merge anything?

 

[Geonovast]

The attachment point will only appear on the root part of the merged craft.  There's no attachment point on the capsule because it's not the root part.

Two ways to fix this.

1. Open up the ship you're trying to merge in by itself, and re-root it so the capsule is root.

2. Use the re-root tool on the faded out part in the screenshot to set the capsule as root.  This is quicker, but won't edit the original craft, so if you do this multiple times, you'll need to keep doing it.

The re-root tool is the one to the right of the rotate tool in the upper left.

[Serenity]

Just to add to this

Click the Re root tool, then click a random part of the craft you want to merge, the ''ghost'' craft(dont click the capsule or  the part you want to be root and have the attachment point)

and then in the second click, click the capsule to make it Root and ''activate'' the snaping point.

Edited August 28, 2019 by Boyster