Gendered Docking Ports?

[GluttonyReaper]

Not sure if this is the right place, but I couldn't help but notice this in the patch notes for 1.0.5:

* Docking ports now have gendered as an option, and support limited docking angles.

In the actual game, docking ports are as they have always been ... so is this just mod support stuff, or am I missing something?

[NathanKell]

Mod support.

[Alshain]

These have already been adapted for the gendered and multi-sized support in stock.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/73005-1-0-5-Kip-Engineering-All-Docking-Ports-updated-for-1-0-5!-%2811th-Nov-2015%29

[GluttonyReaper]

Ah, okay, thanks for clearing that up.

[Archgeek]

Blast, only mod support? Sad, that would've saved me a lot of trouble fighting the part tree representation to get both two clampy bro.s jr. at the docking point and a root attachment on an ion engine with a separator elsewhere. Angle forcing would've made that a dang lot easier.

[Pecan]

Blast, only mod support? Sad, that would've saved me a lot of trouble fighting the part tree representation to get both two clampy bro.s jr. at the docking point and a root attachment on an ion engine with a separator elsewhere. Angle forcing would've made that a dang lot easier.

Whut?

[Archgeek]

Whut?

HEH, there was no way I could've expressed that that made much sense. A ship with ion engines was too wide due to the crossbars its engines were on. I pulled them off and mounted them parallel to the spine for launch by a stack separator on on the centre engine, to be assembled by a micro-tug in orbit. This required the use of not just one, but a pair of small docking ports, so as to ensure the engines actually pointed straight retrograde for thrust purposes. The game's tree model of part attachment made it very difficult to make both the docking port pair and the center-mounted separator to happen. (Lotta re-rooting.) Docking angle limiting would've saved all of that trouble.

[Pecan]

Oh right, I think I see what you mean.
My only suggestion would be a docking mod, such a Navyfish's or the more-minimalist Navballdockingalignment which is based on it.