If the station just can't fit my ship I have plenty of shuttlecraft to make it work. Sometimes even that's not good enough without a 50m tube on the station. My ship is a bit of a wonky shape that doesn't lend itself well to surface docking, so docking arms are a necessity. I never really got the hate for necrobumps (and only 11 days old in a not-very-active subreddit) as long as it's relevant, and yours certainly is!Īre both the arms on "stage right", for lack of a better term? Does that create any issues if both ships have the arms extended while they try to dock? I suppose that's still avoidable via logic so that only one of the hidden panels can be open at once. Hey that's great! I don't exactly monitor the thread, but I do still get the orangereds. I hope this gives you some inspiration of your own. I even plan on making sure my stations are equipped with Docking Arms to allow ships to dock with them no problem as well. Other than that, the system works great, and as long as I am smart with where I put this docking system, I can dock any sized ship to each other with no issues. It's gotten better since I've taken these pictures, but you can still see the panels. The lighting engine is a bit wonky, so you can see the panels that will open up revealing the arms and ports right now. I've included some pictures to give an idea of what I'm talking about.Ĭompletely Docked (This was a proof of concept, and I've since made the Arms longer)ĭocking Arm Controls including a detach failsafe The Docking Arm isn't the one actually doing the docking, however things can dock to it just fine. If one ship wants to dock to another, one would have to extend their docking arm, and the other ship would dock to the other using their docking port. This Docking Arm/Port system will be located on both Starboard and Port sides of the ship. Each ship will have an extendable Docking Arm, and a Docking Port located right next to each other. Until I came up with the idea of having a joint system. So the idea of having several ships with their own docking arm docking with each other was a pipe dream. The problem I was running into, as many have already stated, is that a docked entity (the docking arm in this case) can't dock onto another entity. I also wanted to try coming up with a hidden, extendable arm docking system for all my ships.
I know this thread is a bit dated, so I'm not sure if OP is watching it anymore, but perhaps my solution will interest you.
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