Welded parts

[CaptainKipard]

Is it ok for multi-model parts to have intersecting colliders? Can each mu file have a collider in such a part?

[NoMrBond]

If you're assembling a part using multiple MODEL{} calls within the same part.cfg, generating a final configuration with intersecting (physics) colliders can cause all sorts of problems (usually of the exploding variety)

Otherwise each part you're calling can have its own collider (or colliders)

[CaptainKipard]

I'm making a set of universal docking ports and I was hoping to save some memory by nesting smaller sections within larger sections so that:

- 0.625+1.25 port is made with one mu, the small one

- 0.625+1.25+2.5 port is made with 2 mus

- 0.625+1.25+2.5+3.75 is made with all 3

But if I understand you right I should export unique models for each part instead of welding?

[NoMrBond]

I think there may have been a bit of a disconnect, hang on

You would generate three separate .mu's (say small.mu/med.mu/large.mu for 06.25/1.25, 2.5 and 3.75m models respectively)

The then small port would be (in the part.cfg)

MODEL

{

model = \directory\small

}

The medium would have

MODEL

{

model = \directory\small

}

MODEL

{

model = \directory\med

}

And the large would have

MODEL

{

model = \directory\small

}

MODEL

{

model = \directory\med

}

MODEL

{

model = \directory\large

}

in their respective configs, does that make more sense?

There are quite a few part-weld/weld-resize packs around so the large one being the .mu combination of all three should work

[CaptainKipard]

Yes, like that exactly.