Docking Trouble.

[Dexion]

Hey everyone, I have been trying to get two ships to dock for hours and having no luck. Both ships have clamp-o-tron docking ports; even when the ships go in to the docking animation (drawing close to each other and lining up), they simply slide apart a second later, like the ports are failing to "latch on".

Am I missing something super basic? I have tried with 4 ships, and nothing is working!

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Edited December 11, 2014 by Claw
answered

[capi3101]

From here it looks like you've got the ports on upside-down.

EDIT: No. I'm wrong there...hmm. Have you tried quicksaving the game, getting back into the program and loading it back up? Sorry for the "is it plugged in" type question there; just making sure the bases are covered. Might try to see if SAS is on on both crafts too. And it'd be helpful if we could see the navball.

Sometimes docking ports won't set reset themselves properly; fixing it requires some finagling of the persistence file. Hopefully it won't come to that, but...

Edited December 10, 2014 by capi3101

[Dexion]

Wait.... oh no i hope that's not it. Lol don't tell me that. I assumed that the yellow hazard ring was supposed to show?

[Dexion]

So I just tried docking in sandbox... got it first time... so i don't think it's me. I'm thinking maybe it has to do with the cones I attached the docking ports too? Here is the Nav-Ball. I mean, I don't think I could get this much closer lol. Between the 4 launch's and the parts, those 4 ships are a quarter of my funds, grrr.

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[Taki117]

Check out this thread, it details your issue and a fix.

[capi3101]

Yeah. I agree it's a case of the docking bug and Taki's given you the instructions you need to (hopefully) fix it - which is good, because I'd forgotten where they were on the forum...

[Dexion]

Took me three tries, but it worked! Thanks!