Where are XL / L ships docking with pier coordinates defined?

[Azran_Zala]

As titled, hoping someone could point me in the right direction .
I'm trying to find how / where to state or modify the coordinates where or at what point an XL/L ship tries to center or meet with a station docking pier.

Have a modded ship Im trying to fix, that tries to dock with the 'pier' going right through and ending up center of the hull. I may be blind but nothing stands out in the <ship>.XML or .macro
Is it in a different file or even a thing?

[linolafett]

Its defined via a set of "waypoints" where the cargo drones fly along.
This works like a power plug and needs the waypoints at the identical positions on both ends. Therefore its probably best to copy/paste the waypoints from working assets into your ship.
Move them all together and not individiually until you know better how they work.

The waypoints are called "XU_Waypoint01" up until the highest number, like "XU_Waypoint014".
The tags of each waypoint define traffic type, size of the diameter to travel in, the type of masstraffic on them and if its a start/end or link waypoint. They then also have a node which links to another waypoint (if this waypoint is not the last in a chain)
For example:

"tags = typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic closelink
links = #("XU_Waypoint013")"

The "closelink" waypoints are the critical ones, there are four of them. They need to be relative to each other in the exact identical position, otherwise the "plug" will not connect to the closelink waypoints on the pier.
I hope that helps.

[Azran_Zala]

Its defined via a set of "waypoints" where the cargo drones fly along.
This works like a power plug and needs the waypoints at the identical positions on both ends. Therefore its probably best to copy/paste the waypoints from working assets into your ship.
Move them all together and not individiually until you know better how they work.

The waypoints are called "XU_Waypoint01" up until the highest number, like "XU_Waypoint014".
The tags of each waypoint define traffic type, size of the diameter to travel in, the type of masstraffic on them and if its a start/end or link waypoint. They then also have a node which links to another waypoint (if this waypoint is not the last in a chain)
For example:

"tags = typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic closelink
links = #("XU_Waypoint013")"

The "closelink" waypoints are the critical ones, there are four of them. They need to be relative to each other in the exact identical position, otherwise the "plug" will not connect to the closelink waypoints on the pier.
I hope that helps.

Excellent, thanks very much. I thought so maybe, but couldn't be sure. This might also explain my last observation of cargo not being transferred.

[Azran_Zala]

By any chance do/can these way-points control the path s/m ships take towards a dock (on a carrier per say)?

[linolafett]

By any chance do/can these way-points control the path s/m ships take towards a dock (on a carrier per say)?

Take a look at the equipment dock or the center module of the teladi tradestation. There you can see waypoints which control the paths the ships take when entering the dockarea.