[1.12.x] Docking Sounds!! v2.1.13 (1/30/2023)

[tg626]

 

DPSoundFX

Simple as the name, it adds the sorely missing sounds of collisions docking in orbit!

Motivation

Simply put, I wanted to hear something when 2 ships docked. I was so used to it in Orbiter (an open source space simulator) that I sorely missed it. So much so that I jumped into coding (again) to make it happen.

My effects are based on my perception that Jeb wouldn't dock so much as "participate in a controlled collision"

Installation

Be sure to have the latest version of ModuleManger installed!

Upzip it into your GameData folder, as with most other mods.

API Reference

Using a ModuleManager config, like below, you can specify your own sounds for any docking port in the game.

@PART[someDockingPort]:NEEDS[FP_DPSoundFX]
{
    MODULE
    {
        name = DPSoundFX
        sound_docking = CustomExample/crash
        sound_undocking = CustomExample/radio
        internalSoundsOnly = false      
    }
}

How-To-Use

Just listen, when docking or un-docking of course!! (Now also when decoupling!)

Contributors

Guru's who answered my questions:

• Snjo
• CrzyRndm

Authors whose plugins were studied for clues and code:

• Pizzaoverhead

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V3 dated 6/29/2007

Download / Source

• Download - GitHub
• Download - SpaceDock (CKAN enabled)
• Source
• Alternate Sounds
  • Docking & Undocking - by Dashman (RAR archive) ^{[Link Reported Broken: 8/22/21]}
  • Docking & Undocking - by akron

Edited January 30, 2023 by tg626
Minor feature update

[Toyotawolf]

lol again one of those why isnt that stock

[skykooler]

I didn't realize how much I needed this.

[BlackHat]

Loved it also.... BUT, it seems a bit loud from the demo. Haven't tried it in game yet, but would it be possible to lower the volume of this sound by 1/3rd or 1/2? Or also include a quieter version and the user can select between them?

[tg626]

Try it and let me know what you think. I have the music set very low in game, so it may be deceiving.

[YNM]

Will it be a bit muted (damped) from IVA ?

[Thiagobs]

Really nice!!!!!!!!!

Made me think about the Apollo 13 movie:

[pizzaoverhead]

Excellent work! Another great addition to the soundscape of KSP!

[AngelLestat]

I dont understand the 4 knocking sounds after the main sound..

[SemiaCloud]

Evil! There is no sound in space, and there are no docking sounds in space either!

[Guest]

I dont understand the 4 knocking sounds after the main sound..

That's the docking probe retracting and the docking latches engaging.

And thanks to the mod author for this! I'd forgotten how much I missed the docking sounds from Orbiter.

[SmallFatFetus]

I whipped together a quick sound for you, hope you like it.

https://www./?ao8lbur17yll58y

[Beetlecat]

Will it be a bit muted (damped) from IVA ?

Wouldn't it actually be louder (or only audible in) in IVA?

[tg626]

I dont understand the 4 knocking sounds after the main sound..

As noted, it's the "Hard Dock Clamps" slamming home.

Evil! There is no sound in space, and there are no docking sounds in space either!

Yes, like Joss Weadon, I know this, but the game (for that matter most games, and SciFi) doesn't...

I whipped together a quick sound for you, hope you like it.

https://www./?ao8lbur17yll58y

More realistic then mine! I added it as an alternate download on the OP. Mine was deliberately over the top, since I see Jeb as the sort to more or less crash into another ship as much as gently dock!

Wouldn't it actually be louder (or only audible in) in IVA?

Should be, the code is set to "roll off" with distance so IVA and closeup External (as I was in the video) should be loud and it should get softer if you are zoomed out more.

A couple planned but not promised updates in my head are:

• Option for IVA only sound (like RCSsounds has now)
  
• Particle effects when undocking making a small cloud of "ice" that dissipates.
  

We'll see. Believe it or not, I'm really grouping in the dark here - my only formal programming training was in AppleBASIC on an Apple IIe back in the 1980s. I've dabbled since then, most notably in C++ (Quake 2 modding) and PHP scripting for web sites, but this is the first code I've released in decades...

[Capt. Hunt]

I should point out that the stock docking ports are apparently soft-dock ports, since they have no latches or probe/drogue hookup, so technically they shouldn't make this much noise, but I like it anyway, I think it's more realistic and it'll add a lot to the act of docking. What sound does it make on undocking?

[monstah]

Awesome, these little mods are what make KSP a fantastic game rather than just a cool game.

Oh, happy 666th, tg626

- - - Updated - - -

Damn, you should have had your 666th post below this one, but I left the tab open too long and you ninja'd me. Oh well, good bye joke.

[Skalou]

amaizing, i like the 5 sounds at the end, who is the guy with a hammer destroying my ship?

do you know what part/mechanism produce it IRL?

and yes there is sound in spaceship, there is air inside the ship, sound can be also tranmitted by the structure vibrations(yeah man). if you said because the camera is outside, what a pretty sad ambience it will do.

[inigma]

Nice, I like! Including this in my install.

[Athlonic]

Excellent addition, loving it !

Thanks

[AngelLestat]

That's the docking probe retracting and the docking latches engaging.

As noted, it's the "Hard Dock Clamps" slamming home.

Thanks

More realistic then mine! I added it as an alternate download on the OP. Mine was deliberately over the top, since I see Jeb as the sort to more or less crash into another ship as much as gently dock!

Yeah I like it

[Beale]

FEDERAL PRODUCTIONS

http://i.imgur.com/a0huqAj.jpg

Simple as the name, it adds the sorely missing sounds of collisions docking in orbit!

Wow!

Must have!

Do I need to do anything special to add compatibility with my own parts?

[tg626]

Nope. The included mm config will attach it to any part with moduledocking

[Capt. Hunt]

noticed a small bug. When equipping a tool or a backpack with KIS it plays the docking sound.

It was kinda funny, Bob equipped a backpack and BOOM...CLANG...CLANG...CLANG...CLANG, but I suspect it'll get old real fast. Maybe you could add a module that looks for any KIS modules and disables the sound FX.

[tg626]

Alright, I,ll look into that. Did your nearby craft have docking ports? I suspect the backpack is triggering the docking event and I,ll have to find a way to verify what triggered the event. Right now the code will (I believe) assume that the trigger was a docking port docking to another and not a backpack "docking" to a kerbal. I bet the claw does it to an asteroid too...

[Capt. Hunt]

hmm, yeah, he was standing next to my lander when it happened, that had a docking port.