[Bug 2.60] Ships can not dock at custom made ships (and vanilla ships too)

[Max Bain]

Hello Egosoft,

I know, that this bug seems out of scope of vanilla game, but I think that it is still very important to fix if you want to have a good future with many mods and many ships made by fans.

The problem is that ships which are custom made, have big problems with smaller ships docking at the docking pads. Sometimes they can dock pretty well, but sometimes they hover above the dockarea for ever.

Here is a screnshot where you can see that nothing is above the dockarea but the ships stay above the dock forever:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 7B0A52C69/

I believe that the reason for this behaviour is the fact, that custom made ships dont have a hole under the docking pad and therefore the clipping mechanic says the ship that it will fly against a wall.

While I think that making holes inside the ship model at the positions where the docks are would be the best way, it is simply not very practical for us modders because not everyone is an expert in Blender or 3DSMax and it will take even way longer to bring new ships into X4.

Could you please look into the docking algorithm and maybe you can say the ships to ignore clipping if they are near enough over the docking bay.

I would appreciate any comment of any dev about this topic.


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[Buzz2005]

I have this problem on carriers, namely Zeus, nemesis just stay in that spot above the dock, so I would say it a vannila bug not moded ships

going to low attention solves it

what is maybe the problem is if the ship is moving when the nemesis tries to dock, sometimes it works sometimes not

[Max Bain]

Ok you are right... I just found this bug report from vanilla game:

viewtopic.php?f=192&t=419246

So please devs, I hope you will fix this because the whole X4 game is about docking and undocking.

[Alan Phipps]

Also see this thread.