Help with Orbital Rendezvous, I have tried most common solutions.

[mm923448]

Greetings!

In searching the forums, I see this has been a common question, and I have done my trouble shooting by checking out the common bugs. I have 0.23, and haven't attempted a rendezvous since 0.21 (which I was able to do successfully). Now though, I can bring two objects into alignment at about 0.1 m/s relative speed (approximately, as my nav ball is very glitchy anymore and won't give exact readouts, it keeps jumping between numbers and coordinates). I can bring my two ports to near enough touch, not exactly but I can remember from past rendezvous that the magnetic assist is quite generous, but now the objects simply collide into each other without connecting.

Common troubleshooting that I've covered:

-SAS turned OFF.

-Both ports are matching make and size

-Both are assembled the right way

Screenshots:

Apologies for the annoyance of covering such old ground, but any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

Post edit: screenshots didn't work. Odd. Here's the direct links to the imgur uploads:

http://imgur.com/7V9us1Z

http://imgur.com/OfVf3Gd

Edited January 9, 2014 by mm923448

[technion]

Greetings!

the magnetic assist is quite generous, but now the objects simply collide into each other without connecting.

It could be just me but I never found this to be the case. Assuming I've recently hit F5 and not afraid to hit F9, responding to this scenario by opening up full throttle when you think those clamps should be touching often makes them connect.

[Dreadp1r4te]

Be sure you're right clicking on your (controlled ship's) docking port and hitting "Control from here" then right click on the target ship's docking port specifically and click "set as target." This is the usually the problem in my case.

[Soda Popinski]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/47768-Locked-Docking-Ports