Ground Docking?

[Tripod27]

Just recently downloaded the Kethane mod, and made a couple of trucks to mine/convert the kethane. Problem is, I have to get the stuff from one truck to the other, so I made both the same height and stuck a docking port on the back of each. I tried testing it, and even with the ports perfectly aligned, pushed together with both trucks having handbrakes holding them there (or with the truck I'm in having no brakes on to see if that was the issue) they won't connect or look like they try connecting. I can hold them there for ages and have nothing happen

Am I missing something?

EDIT: after testing a bit more, they do lock, but I can't get them to actually "connect"

Edited May 31, 2013 by Tripod27

[Jason Patterson]

That is all kinds of weird. There is nothing special you have to do to get ground vehicles to dock properly, and these vehicles look perfectly aligned. By chance did you build them stuck together then decouple to test? If so, switch away to the space center then back using the tracking station. That will reload the vessels into physics and reactivate their docking ports. The only other thing I can think of is that there might be a small, nearly invisible part obstructing one or both ports (like a strut buried inside one of them.) You might try deleting and reinstalling the ports.

[Tripod27]

no they're two separate vehicles, but it might be the second problem, since I did put two struts right behind one of the ports, and they might be slightly in the way

[sal_vager]

I can't see anything wrong from the pic, you have backed off a few meters to retry haven't you?

Maybe one of your plugins is affecting the ports, what do you have loaded besides Kethane?

[Tripod27]

Alright, moved these two struts connecting the drill guards and the ASAS module back like an inch (half of the end of one was slightly touching the far side of the docking port) and when I did that they docked as soon as I touched

Such a small part can be such an annoyance :/

[Atanar]

Be careful with the wheels. Even if they look like they should fit in the VAB, different masses can push the wheels to different altitudes. Stuff that locks on Kerbin may not lock on the Mun.

[Tripod27]

I was mostly worried that the wheels from the drilling one would get overloaded and compress when the tank was filled so I raised it a little higher, but my current docking procedure is "set the brake on one, and ram it with the other till you push it to the proper height for long enough", which should be even easier in low gravity.

[DailyFrankPeter]

(Don't mean to clutter the thread but we could use some fuel hose solution.)

[Umlüx]

you could use the pipes from kerbal attachment system.

i use them to refuel my crafts and shuttles on my minmus mining base.