A question about nodes in docking port config

[M4ck]

Hello, modders.

I'm trying to make some new parts for my station(and maybe to share with you, if they work well) etc to lower the completed station parts count, and to do that, I need the docking port functionality. The question here is, what does the "top" part of the code target specifically?

MODULE
{
	name = ModuleDockingNode
	referenceAttachNode = top
	nodeType = size1
}

is it the part of the node name in nodes config, like here:

node_stack_top = 0.0, 0.2828832, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1
node_stack_bottom = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1
node_attach = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0

if yes, would setting

referenceAttachNode = bottom

instead make the opposite end of the port be the "docking" end? And yet a bit more - do the nodes' names have to follow a specific format if I were to add more nodes to a part? Like creating a construction node A1?

node_stack_A1

I am not talking about making that node another dock yet, just about adding various nodes to part cfg.

[TheCardinal]

Respectively:

-Yes

-Yes

-Yes/No. Do not use blanks in the name, other than that your free to choose the (third part of the) name. It doesn't really matter if you call it A1, Z99 or even thirdnode. However, a part with multiple dockingnodes will show multiple dockingrelated lines with buttons. It will be unclear which line will (f.i.) undock the topnode and which the bottom node.

[M4ck]

Thanks a lot for a quick answer, it's just what I needed I 've been trying to merge some functionality from decouplers, docking ports etc, but had no idea really how to create additional nodes that would work as intended. Thanks again.

Now, time to test that quadcoupler-decoupler-dockingport monster...