Docking issues

StarTrader

It may be that HpDockPointA01 and/or HpDockPointA02 are not facing towards the dock. They should be. And HpDockPointA01 should be the closest to the dock.

Mindhunter

Yeah good point, in HardCmp the Zaxis From HpDockPoint02 must face towarss HpDockPoint01 and the Z axis from HpDockPoint01 must face towars the HpDockMountA.
but it should also work if u reverse them u should simply tock backwards.
Like on the vanilla BS’s the HP are faced to the ship front so u dock upwardly

Mini_Me

hp’s are all facing direction of docking path (though as Mind mentions, I’ve docked at a few bass ackwards bases before ;D )
docking_camera = 0 is present
the Sc_open dock has two joints, 1 for each doorsection like on docking rings.
radius changes in SolarArch.ini have had no effect
just tried moving both A01 and A02 outside of cmp’s radius -same deal no effect

QQ me are a sad little person

Mindhunter

If U’re willing to upload your model anywhere and pm me the downloadlink i will see if i can get it to work.
U have my confirmation that i will not give it to others or use it in any other ways that getting it to work.

Edit: Have u tryed to replace that model with another one? Would be helpful to know if that works.

Mini_Me

I’ll give switching out the model a try, if that biffs yet again then I’ll e-mail you the mini-mod I’m using to test it. Just dont laugh at the texturing I’m also in the middle of consolidating them so things look like crap

Edit: just tried setting up the Hp’s on docking fixture to match, and yup thats the prob.
Rather odd, as I’ve seen a few DA models with over 1k distance from A02 to A. This certainly complicates things a little, might have to make the doors destructible. That short a distance won’t give anyone long enough to get in range if the base / patrols are hostile. Was counting on making it so the only way in was to sneak past the doors when one of the enemy ships were docking (access to two jumpgates inside being the incentive for that).

Last edit: the exe hack cured it. Though methinks another route will be taken so that wont be required for it to just plop into wherever it ends up. Just have to tweak the time & radians a bit more. Please excuse my n00bness here, my first base

FR

Try 2 remove the station SUR and
see what happens.

If it works without a SUR ……

;D - edit - forget it.

Mini_Me

Well, at least this day was not a total waste. I just stumbled on a related issue: why modifying the frame count breaks the animation. This I’ve triple checked
Header data is the key, the first byte specifies how many frames are in the animation. This can be edited as an int array. Second byte is either -1 for rotation, or 1 for sliding (float). Third byte in every one I looked at was always just plain int 1

still workin on figurin out proper frames though =( for some reason the docking ring uses 20 frames for the top arm, and 22 for the bottom. In addition, the 2nd frame is a positive val -in a negative rotation… QQ why cant these things just be simple and logical?

[RIP]Fusion

I am working on Custom stations myself, and am having good results w/the docking HPs. For me I am using HpMount first before the DockA, A01, and A02. In HardCMP the yellow line of the three axis must face towards the station. Hope this pic below helps. For my needs I had to move the HpMount to outside of the station model.

Fus

FR

All our custom stations are setup like this:

station -> HpDockMountA -> HpDockPointA01 -> HpDockPointA02 -> space

plus HpDockCamA and HpLaunchCamA at a place which gives a nice view
@ the docking / launching sequence.

And if HpDockMount is inside the sur,
launching won’t get you in space but 2 the desktop

And rotating the HPs will just rotate your ship to face in that direction
during docking.

[RIP]Fusion

@F!R:

All our custom stations are setup like this:

station -> HpDockMountA -> HpDockPointA01 -> HpDockPointA02 -> space

F!r,
So are mine, I just have HpMount before MountA.

And if HpDockMount is inside the sur, launching won’t get you in space but 2 the desktop

Not DockMount, just plain HpMount, like what is found in a ship. All HPs are outside of the sur, So there is no issue there.

Fus