stuff is not docking

[Bobbydylan]

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Playing carrier mode, 0.22, trying to dock 2 ships with Shielded clam-o-tron docking ports. The ships just wont take, bumping off each other. I've selected the other port as target and selected my port as "control from here" (even though this didn't change the nav-ball). I've tried from the other ship, I've check there's no obstructions.... I'm at a loss.

I've got 4 parts of a small station up there, and one 2 will dock to each other, but none of the rest will. Occasionally I'll ge the magnetic "pull" the ships together, but they wont combine into one ship.

Anyone got any advice?

[KasperVld]

Hi there Bobbydylan,

As soon as you get the magnetic attraction, disable the SAS, that will help As for your forum post, I'd like to ask you to read the Community Rules, concerning profanity.

Kasper

[Bobbydylan]

Thanks Kasper, I'll try that. I've tried before without SAS enabled but perhaps disabling it as the Magnetic takes It might work.

Sorry, I didn't intend to swear. I must have been spending too much time on the Battlefield 4 forums.

[Starwhip]

Well, did you actually open them? That might be your problem.

Other than that, turn off your SAS.

Right click on the port, then click "toggle"

Edited December 5, 2013 by Starwhip

[blizzy78]

Well, did you actually open them? That might be your problem.

If you look really closely you can see that they both are open.

[Starwhip]

Sorry, I can't see the image... Try spinning the ships on their axis with Q and E. Or back up with RCS and come back in.

[Bobbydylan]

Sorry, I can't see the image... Try spinning the ships on their axis with Q and E. Or back up with RCS and come back in.

Heya,

Both ports are open, but are labeled as "locked" (I'm not sure if that's relevant). I've spend about 2 hours for the last 2 nights trying this, It wont take. I've tried matching their z axis which doesn't seem to help. Maybe they Z axis should be inverted? so "up" on one is "down" for anyoher. It's really weird. Given the amount of effort that I've put into this, I'd almost say it was a bug. I might go into sandbox and see if I can reproduce this.

It's odd, because of the 4 modules up there ( Lets call them A, B, C and D), A and B will dock to each other, but not to C or D. and C and D wont dock to anything.

[Soda Popinski]

Heya,

Both ports are open, but are labeled as "locked" (I'm not sure if that's relevant). I've spend about 2 hours for the last 2 nights trying this, It wont take. I've tried matching their z axis which doesn't seem to help. Maybe they Z axis should be inverted? so "up" on one is "down" for anyoher. It's really weird. Given the amount of effort that I've put into this, I'd almost say it was a bug. I might go into sandbox and see if I can reproduce this.

It's odd, because of the 4 modules up there ( Lets call them A, B, C and D), A and B will dock to each other, but not to C or D. and C and D wont dock to anything.

Sounds like you got the same bug I did. The ports shouldn't be locked, so you need to either edit the save file or undock something else on the ship, and it'll reset the locked docking ports.

Here's how to do the edit: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/47768-Locked-Docking-Ports

[Taki117]

Yep, it's a bug, more than likely the result of coming in too fast on your first attempt. What can sometimes happen is if you come in too fast your ports will bounce off of each other and while they will say docked they won't actually be docked.

[3mon]

Maybe it has to do with the colission mesh (or whatever its called ) of the doors of both ports being open? Maybe they are colliding and you cannot see it...

[DMagic]

I've seen it happen after quicksaving and loading while docking. As long as you can find the right docking ports in the persistence file it's a pretty easy fix, make backups though.

[Sirine]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/52801-How-to-fix-the-docking-port-un-dockable-issues-%28Solution%29

Almost same issue, study above link, and change the docking stage to ready.

[Bobbydylan]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/52801-How-to-fix-the-docking-port-un-dockable-issues-%28Solution%29

Almost same issue, study above link, and change the docking stage to ready.

Sounds like you got the same bug I did. The ports shouldn't be locked, so you need to either edit the save file or undock something else on the ship, and it'll reset the locked docking ports.

Here's how to do the edit: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/47768-Locked-Docking-Ports

Cheers chaps. I'll give that a bash.