Eliminating station docking port lag

[swjr-swis]

 

6 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

On 2/28/2020 at 5:15 AM, fourfa said:

How about any port only becomes active and scanning when it's been "set as target" by another craft?  For me, this would make the entire disable/enable process completely invisible and require no behavior change, nor yet another PAW line

In conjunction with 'control from here'?

 

One of the valid and frequent use cases of docking ports: as additional latching points for cargo in a cargo bay/fairing. You want the code to automatically find and very quickly enable and dock such pairs as soon as the craft loads on the launchpad or runway, to secure the cargo before it has the time to misalign as gravity and possible other forces are eased in. A very similar situation would be space stations that use multiple docking port pairs to latch station sections together (a stock way of aligning sections), although the savefile preserving docking status may already prevent the issue there.

As for control from here: this is not always used when docking. I make, fly and dock craft that have the intended docking port in the 'wrong' place or orientation for it to be the controlling part during a docking maneuver. I want to continue to be able to do this.

[Shadowmage]

On 2/23/2020 at 10:23 AM, linuxgurugamer said:

It seems that a way to deactivate a docking port at will might be useful

I think I actually made such a mod, long ago...

https://github.com/shadowmage45/DockingPortToggle

Never officially released, but it exists