Why these things won't dock?

[bargest]

see screenshot, nothing to explain

http://i.imgur.com/kVqAsKp.jpg

they perfectly aligned, but still can't grab each others

[Sirine]

Possible...you place the Bar-Frame too much over to the other side of the docking port... like the image above...just the opposite way...

Or you just need to separate far enough for your docking magnet to work again.

[running]

I run into that too.

My list of things to check and try:

- Check allignment from different angles

- Is SAS off? On both objects?

- Go into docking mode

- Right click the docking port and set as target

- Select the docking port on the object I'm controlling and select control from here

- Bumb into the object a few times

- Curse loudly

- Bumb into the object a lot harder a few times

and then I'm docked.

[Kasuha]

Two ideas:

- if you have just undocked them, you need to pull them apart far enough first

- there seems to be something inside. Are you sure you didn't stick something to the "active" end of one of the two ports? If there is something, however small, the port is "saturated" and won't stick to anything else until that thing is removed.

[Temstar]

Could be the docking bug. Open up your persistence file and do a search for the word "Acquire"

If you do find it it will look should look something like this:

			MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNode
					isEnabled = True
					[b]state = Acquire[/b]
					[b]dockUId = 8927489127[/b]
					dockNodeIdx = 0

Make a back up of that file and then change that bit of code to this:

			MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNode
					isEnabled = True
					[b]state = Ready[/b]
					[b]dockUId = 0[/b]
					dockNodeIdx = 0

Then it should work.

[bargest]

Temstar, no "Acquire" words in persistent file

and it isnt constuction problem

i uploading video, hope it will help

upd. sorry for bad quality

Edited September 16, 2013 by bargest

[Johnno]

If you're getting magnetism and it's not a construction issue then they're simply not aligned well enough. To me they don't look perfectly aligned in your image, horizontal surface docking is tricky because the magnetism isn't always strong enough to pull the ports together if your crafts are heavy.

[bargest]

i tried it on mun but i didn't got any magnitism

i think they dont well aligned too, but in space, i getting magnetism with very inaccurate positions, and mun is almost like a space

ps. think i must refuse that docking type and try another

[Monkeh]

I also had problems with docking my fat ships together on the ground. There was no clipping and I pressed them together again and again. Out of this monstrosity:

only 2 ships actually stuck together. Still don't know why but I reckon the magnets can't drag the weight, or hold the weight or whatever. Too much inertia.

[MrPopcup]

Check if they are perfectly alined, also, try to go far then dock with the target, Turn off SAS and RCS when you are really close, if it didn't dock then make a simple craft, and dock with it. Just to see if it's a problem related to the game.

[bargest]

i redesigned docking system, now it works

http://i.imgur.com/g9SLlFI.png

bad align was my problem