How to avoid spending 4 hours plus trying to dock a large ship and then giving up and remaking the ship and wanting to cry.
Pretty amazed that some youtube how to's don't include some of this, and I don't think the wiki does either. (I know; alpha)
1: Build only the floor of your 'bay' first. This will allow you to not worry if you end up letting your imagination go a bit crazeeee.
2: Collect together the following: Ship core, AI Module, Thrusters, Power, a Faction Module, Whatever Block your ship is for (mining, weapons or nothing if it's just a runabout), suitably coloured hull and, if required, shields and whatever else you want.
3: Make your ship
4: Make a note of the x, y, z axis dimensions. You can do this by pressing left control and increasing each of the axis in turn and seeing which way the game has them lying. This is amazingly important and will save you hours of fun.
5: Make sure you can see clearly from the front or aiming the docking laser will be problematic.
6: Exit your stunning creation
7: Enter your other stunning creation, your mothership
8: Go to your bay and select your Docking Computer in your toolbar (but don't place it yet)
9: Put the selection box over where you want to place it. Now press left control and .(>) until the arrow points away from your docking bay floor. (This will save you having to build poles of hull blocks just to turn it green)
10: Increase the size of your docking box using docking enhancers until your x, y and z axis are greater than your ship size. If you need to know which dimension is which again, do the ctrl left thing and make a note.
11: Very important. Go to the Faction Module in your mother ship. Make a faction (you can change this later)
12: Go to the faction module on your new ship and activate that faction module. This will stop your new ship from slipping out the back of your bay when your mothership reaches a certain velocity.
Finish off your bay.
If I've missed anything point it out.
Pretty amazed that some youtube how to's don't include some of this, and I don't think the wiki does either. (I know; alpha)
1: Build only the floor of your 'bay' first. This will allow you to not worry if you end up letting your imagination go a bit crazeeee.
2: Collect together the following: Ship core, AI Module, Thrusters, Power, a Faction Module, Whatever Block your ship is for (mining, weapons or nothing if it's just a runabout), suitably coloured hull and, if required, shields and whatever else you want.
3: Make your ship
4: Make a note of the x, y, z axis dimensions. You can do this by pressing left control and increasing each of the axis in turn and seeing which way the game has them lying. This is amazingly important and will save you hours of fun.
5: Make sure you can see clearly from the front or aiming the docking laser will be problematic.
6: Exit your stunning creation
7: Enter your other stunning creation, your mothership
8: Go to your bay and select your Docking Computer in your toolbar (but don't place it yet)
9: Put the selection box over where you want to place it. Now press left control and .(>) until the arrow points away from your docking bay floor. (This will save you having to build poles of hull blocks just to turn it green)
10: Increase the size of your docking box using docking enhancers until your x, y and z axis are greater than your ship size. If you need to know which dimension is which again, do the ctrl left thing and make a note.
11: Very important. Go to the Faction Module in your mother ship. Make a faction (you can change this later)
12: Go to the faction module on your new ship and activate that faction module. This will stop your new ship from slipping out the back of your bay when your mothership reaches a certain velocity.
Finish off your bay.
If I've missed anything point it out.
