Can't right click docking port- is this a bug?

[Tassyr]

How close are you supposed to be before you can use the 'right click docking port to set as target' function? I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug caused by a plugin going haywire or if I'm just too far away...

Edited August 5, 2013 by Tassyr

[Klingon Admiral]

You need to be pretty close to the target, like 100m or so.

[sal_vager]

Nope, this is actually broken, you just get the root part no matter what.

[Tassyr]

So, erm... which one is it?

[johnnyhandsome]

You need to get close enough to sort of visually see it or its general placement, which is usually less than 100m and sometimes closer to 50.

I usually put a a ring of z100 batteries around the docking port, so that the green lights show up from a distance. A low level headlight could also work.

[sojourner]

Nope, this is actually broken, you just get the root part no matter what.

What??? I do it all the time.

[sal_vager]

It's not worked properly for me since 0.17 I think, I can't select an individual port, the selection keeps defaulting to the root part of the target vessel :/

[Vanamonde]

I have always been able to right-click on a docking port from almost too far away to actually see it, though that's only to select one on a ship I've already targeted, because I always target the ship itself from a distance on map view.

[sal_vager]

Can you select individual ports vanamonde? If you can I'd love to see pics.

[Vanamonde]

Yes, I can, and always have been able to. I'll get a pic if you want one, but I haven't bothered to capture the excitement of the moment so far, and so don't have one to post right now.

[dlmarti]

Works for me, as long as I am about 100m away (more or less).

[Mr Shifty]

Can you select individual ports vanamonde? If you can I'd love to see pics.

Works for me too. I usually dock without RCS by using Smart A.S.S. to point each vessel at the other's docking port. HoY described this method in a video he made using 0.19:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/29518-Tutorial-Easy-mode-docking-with-MechJeb-2-0

[sal_vager]

Great, it's just me then, I can click the ports but the target defaults to the root, so I cannot get accurate docking info unless the root happens to be the port.

[dlmarti]

Great, it's just me then, I can click the ports but the target defaults to the root, so I cannot get accurate docking info unless the root happens to be the port.

I get proper targetting, but the distance is still incorrect (which [FLUFFY BUNNIES] me off to no end).

I swear I do not think the devs have ever tried docking, or piloting without a joystick for that matter.

Edited July 29, 2013 by sal_vager
Language dlmarti!

[NeMeSiS]

I think it works on the navball, but the onscreen target indicator seems to go on the root part.

[Tassyr]

After a bit of testing I can confirm. a) The distance is approx. >200M before you can select the port. The navball calculates the target correctly. c) The on-screen goes for the center of mass of the target, or the center of mass of the last connected segment in a station, for some reason. Yeah, it's stumped me too.