Airlock and Ladder

[zany]

Hi guys. There was a problem with the ladder and the airlock. I kind of placed and named correctly. But the problem is.

1 - airlock works only in one direction. That is to enter into the cockpit but not out.

2 - If the ladder to add the item just do not load.

who can help sort out?

[SasquatchM]

The edge of the boxes can not be inside of the model, they have to be on the surface or even slightly away from it.

Here is a brief tutorial: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Adding_Airlocks_and_Ladders_to_Parts

Basically your Kerbal will spawn in the inside of the back wall of the bounding box and hold onto the ladder at that point.

[ahappydude]

The easiest way for me was to :

1 make an cube, or sphere in the size you want.

2 remove mesh renderer, duplicate.

3 you name the first Ladder, set the layer to part trigger, set the collider to trigger, and the other one airlock,

. Now you have the exact same positions ^^

[Devo]

edit..

in that tutorial you will read:" Remember: airlock and ladder pivots must have same coordinates! And they should have some intersect with main collider."

Which sort of conflict with what sasquatch said, Ive always made sure my main body of my craft and hatch are colliding just slightly, and only because the

tutorial told me to, and its worked - but Sas is saying dont collide them... so im not sure now what your problem is now lol..

Edited April 22, 2013 by Devo

[zany]

Well, now there is a staircase, and there is an entrance, but it's also do not out of the cab.

[Tiberion]

Okay, some things I see:

The collidr box for the airlock cannot intersect your capsule that far, it will try to spawn the Kerbal inside the capsule collider, which is causing that error.

The Part layers and tags must be capitalized. Ladder, Airlock, Part Triggers. And in the airlock picture you don't have the Airlock tag enabled.

Fix that stuff up and try it, and if its not working, give us some fresh screenshots from Unity of the setups.

[ahappydude]

Whats up with your kebals mouths hahah ? Real fancy looking pod (Y)

[BFGfreak]

I like how your kerbals have gone all muppety with those expressions.

[zany]

here's a screenshot fresher, and all the same.

[ahappydude]

I dont think the collider for airlock should be on triggger, How does the collider for the pod looks? So it doesnt interfere with your hatch

[zany]

Thank you. Everything is all right. I solved this problem.

[Absolution]

Thank you. Everything is all right. I solved this problem.

What ultimately solved your problem?

[Devo]

I dont think the collider for airlock should be on triggger, How does the collider for the pod looks? So it doesnt interfere with your hatch

The airlock has to be a trigger, otherwise it doesn't work.

[ahappydude]

Sorry op my bad , good that you found a solution^^

[zany]

What ultimately solved your problem?

Somehow trigger airlock, faced with mesh collision. Although there was no visual contact. I just simply remade mesh collision and pulled the trigger.

[Blargeddy]

Hey, I'm having a somewhat similar problem regarding airlocks and ladders using Unity. From what I can tell I have everything set up correctly, but as you will see in KSP it doesn't function how it should..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdEynapCrM&feature=youtube

As some reference so people can help, here are some screenies of it in Unity:

If anyone has some insight or advice I really appreciate it!

[zany]

Hey, I'm having a somewhat similar problem regarding airlocks and ladders using Unity. From what I can tell I have everything set up correctly, but as you will see in KSP it doesn't function how it should..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdEynapCrM&feature=youtube

As some reference so people can help, here are some screenies of it in Unity:

If anyone has some insight or advice I really appreciate it!

1 - airlock should not come in contact with the mesh collider. 2 - triggers better to make a rectangle. 3 - blue arrow should be directed to the side of your cockpit. Looking for on the topic, I think you will find the answer.

[Devo]

Hey, I'm having a somewhat similar problem regarding airlocks and ladders using Unity. From what I can tell I have everything set up correctly, but as you will see in KSP it doesn't function how it should..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdEynapCrM&feature=youtube

As some reference so people can help, here are some screenies of it in Unity:

If anyone has some insight or advice I really appreciate it!

Blue Arrow facing inward, not outward. Make sure you are viewing Local , not Global co-ordinates and try not to have the box going too deep into the ship, even bring the hatch

all the way out, then test it and then move it when you are happy with testing.

[Blargeddy]

That did the trick. I made both the airlock and ladder meshes into rectangles and got the z arrow pointed in, solved my problems.

Thanks alot guys

[carmics]

well now have to explain how we do the inside, the cabin of the pods

[joedude69]

well now have to explain how we do the inside, the cabin of the pods

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/23030-0-17-interior-tutorial-download-example-project?highlight=INternal+cock

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/25013-Compilation-of-modding-information-links-0-19

Use these its actually easy, learned it all in about a couple nights.

[Deltafee]

Hey I am having some problems as well, My kerbalnaut comes out at the top instead of the sid and I thought I did it correctly. here's my unity setup

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk293/deltafee/Problem_zps44f7a5da.png

[Devo]

Hey I am having some problems as well, My kerbalnaut comes out at the top instead of the sid and I thought I did it correctly. here's my unity setup

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk293/deltafee/Problem_zps44f7a5da.png

Your blue arrow needs to face inward, toward the door, not coming out of it.

[Deltafee]

now he comes out on the right side, but now he can't get back in. here's the picture of what I changed and my guy in the right position.

[Devo]

now he comes out on the right side, but now he can't get back in. here's the picture of what I changed and my guy in the right position.

-snip

Ok I see your problem

Create an Empty game object in Unity, centre it at 0,0,0

Drag the entire contents of the project under that new empty object.

This empty game object has the correct local directions setup for KSP. Once you have done that, generate the model.mu again and test it, it should work.

Why didnt it work?

The problem is, RIGHTFRONTGEAR I assume is the base model or filename you exported from blender, which probably has a different rotation in blender. Blender and Unity do not share X,Y,Z, it is a different setup..

There was a diagram of the unity vs blender but I cant seem to find it right now.

If you want to make it easier on yourself, Basically... I find if you flip your object in blender,

* Rotate Y -180 or -90 (depending on spacehanger or VAB)

* Select All, then CTRL-A and reset the rotation of your model

THEN export. You can skip the step I mentioned above with the empty game object this way, just saves some time when making many parts.

Edited May 9, 2013 by Devo