Place Anywhere Crew Hatches

[DukeDirckus]

I want to make a cool space station with the Kerbal Tubes mod, but i think it would be very handy if you could place hatches on the tubes and other parts so it is easy to enter!

[Ser]

Yeah, hatch positions are a headache on airplanes too. Due to over-weighted cockpits the good wing position often tends to overlap the hatch so there's often the need to move it to a more suitable place.

[Red Iron Crown]

I'd like to see this functionality rolled into docking port parts, as they wouldn't add to the part list then. 

[max_creative]

Just now, Red Iron Crown said:

I'd like to see this functionality rolled into docking port parts, as they wouldn't add to the part list then. 

Yes I agree! I think it is super annoying that I have to clip mk1 lander cans for airlocks! 

[pandaman]

1 hour ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I'd like to see this functionality rolled into docking port parts, as they wouldn't add to the part list then. 

Yes, a neat sensible solution.  Definitely the 'senior' (though it's not currently surface attachable) the 'standard' is probably big enough too to not seem 'wrong' , though with the forthcoming art pass they could probably be made just a little wider anyway to facilitate this.  The 'Junior' I think is just too small.

[The_Rocketeer]

I want to see this functionality in docking ports, but I also to see a small, high-heat-tolerance low-mass low-drag place-anywhere hatch too. Like @max_creative I often resort to clipping Lander Cans into my bigger crafts to make it look like it has a door, but the mass alone is horrifying. If I had a part that was the size and shape of the Lander Can's door that did the same job, that would be awesome.

[Stoney3K]

On 31/05/2016 at 10:02 PM, pandaman said:

Yes, a neat sensible solution.  Definitely the 'senior' (though it's not currently surface attachable) the 'standard' is probably big enough too to not seem 'wrong' , though with the forthcoming art pass they could probably be made just a little wider anyway to facilitate this.  The 'Junior' I think is just too small.

If the standard docking port is large enough to squeeze Kerbals through between modules, it can definitely dock with the vacuum of space.

[pandaman]

30 minutes ago, Stoney3K said:

If the standard docking port is large enough to squeeze Kerbals through between modules, it can definitely dock with the vacuum of space.

When docked kerbals can transfer anywhere within the vessel no matter how tight a squeeze it is.  I was think from a purely visual 'hatch size'  point of view for boarding a vessel.

[Oafman]

Nertea's Station Parts mod has an airlock which can attach anywhere radially

 

 

[TheDestroyer111]

Yes! I really like the idea of making a docking port act as a place-anywhere airlock. This can also be cool in realistic terms-The Pirs and Poisk docking modules of the ISS are also airlocks, and their hatches and docking ports are the same things.