docking facing

[alikka]

I would like to see a way to set which way the face of a docking module is facing.

For example, currently if your docking module is facing up (the red side when editing) your ships will always face forward in line with the ship you are docking to. It would be nice to be able to rotate that face.

 

[Criss]

I would like to see a way to set which way the face of a docking module is facing.

For example, currently if your docking module is facing up (the red side when editing) your ships will always face forward in line with the ship you are docking to. It would be nice to be able to rotate that face.

While this is something I can agree with, it is a long requested feature that has been posted numerous times by now.

 

[Planr]

Yes, this is something that should be fixed as soon as possible. Currently, you could have a ship that is small enough to fit in the shape of a certain docking space size, but NOPE, you gotta go tear the ship apart and rebuild that entire sucker because the ship has to be built and oriented a specific way just to go in your freaking dock!
ugh. it really pisses me off.

 

[NeonSturm]

6 sides * 4 orientations of that side = 24 possibilities.
But I think the ship itself should be able to cycle through the orientations also.

Build the dock to have the longest free space being forward and the widest/tallest at rear (community standard).
The ship can rotate the docking camera blocks to adjust the orientation around y at +(90*[0..3])°.

 

[alikka]

They could have an extra set of controls pop up under the orientation controls for blocks like docking, like how it shows up now with blocks that have orientation vs those that don't.