Help With DockPort Plugin

[owensm0132]

OK, I am a noob to ksp plugin development but not to c# or programming in general. I have read and searched many locations and even looked at other plugin's code. But nothing is clear enough to get me going in the right direction.

Goal: I want to create a new docking port. Why- because I love the game and I love programming. I have tried the plugin from NavyFish but I want something a little different. It is just for my personal enjoyment.

Progress: From what I understand, you can create a new kind of part by inheriting from the Parts class and (I guess) associating the code with a cfg via the module name parameter. I have not done this because I believe I what I need to do is modify the behavior of an existing part by inheriting from the PartModule class and associating that with a docking port cfg (via copy and past into new plugin folder and changing the name). I have tried this and it seems to not complain but the new part does not dock. I am not overriding anything except onAwake but even then I am just logging a string debug console and calling base.onAwake.

Yes, I have followed the tutorial (http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Creating_your_first_module) but these parts mods don't do anything like dock 2 ships together.

Any help will be appreciated as I cannot find any reasonable collection of api documentation.

Mark Owens

[stupid_chris]

You'll want to inherit from PartModule, what you want to create is a new partmodule for your part. If you simply want to create a new part, that would be through modelling.

[owensm0132]

ok, I guess my question then is, how do I dock two ships so they become one in the code like the dockingport module already does. Or even better, how do add the the existing functionality of a dockingport?

That is, if I implement PartModule I have to provide all the code to handle docking to ships together - I do not know the API required for that. Or, maybe I can just implement DockingPort?? But I tried this by associating with a cfg like you would for a PartModule but to now avail. I clearly am stumbling around in the dark.

[owensm0132]

I think I got it. I found ModuleDockingNode class!

public class mydockingpart : ModuleDockingNode

{

...

}

It works!!! It has all the default features of a docking port plus whatever I add to it!

The following link was the clue for me;

https://github.com/Anatid/XML-Documentation-for-the-KSP-API/blob/master/DockingPort.cs

[bungee-]

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to add functionality to existing stock Docking ports. Like plugin that would extend the built-in parts? Or I have to create parts and add the functionality I wish?

[stupid_chris]

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to add functionality to existing stock Docking ports. Like plugin that would extend the built-in parts? Or I have to create parts and add the functionality I wish?

Not that I know of. Simply add your own PartModule to the parts by using MM.