Shuttle Bay with Hatch Outer Door

[Stormtruper]

Before I go to the trouble of testing all the wiring of this, does anyone know if shuttle could pass through a hatch outer door? What about two hatches (scaled to half the length of the bay for vertical launch)? I have not yet seen any mods with this sort of amenity.

[KnEe_GrOw]

Shuttles can pass through hatches, at least the last time I checked.

The problem is hatches don't actually do anything if there isn't a Hull for them to be on the edge of. If you make your shuttle bay a Hull zone, the shuttle will likely not be able to re-dock unless you set things up in a very specific way.

[AlienJesus]

Yeah, would have to make a kind of sub bay that floods and purges. Which would probably mean setting up an aux ballast system that kicks in so your sub doesnt crash to the sea floor. Then the shuttle would be in a room with air. Probably be able to drop it into the water for extra launching fun though.

Or just dont put hull there and it will just stay open to water with the hatch preventing monsters from getting in. Shouldnt effect ballast if no hull. Just means visually it will always be under water.

[KnEe_GrOw]

Originally posted by AlienJesus:

Yeah, would have to make a kind of sub bay that floods and purges. Which would probably mean setting up an aux ballast system that kicks in so your sub doesnt crash to the sea floor. Then the shuttle would be in a room with air. Probably be able to drop it into the water for extra launching fun though.

You can do this, but shuttles cannot enter a hull, so once it unlocks it will not be able to dock to the main sub again. There are a few subs on the workshop that have managed to make this work, but it requires some very special setup.

[AlienJesus]

Originally posted by KnEe_GrOw:

Originally posted by AlienJesus:

Yeah, would have to make a kind of sub bay that floods and purges. Which would probably mean setting up an aux ballast system that kicks in so your sub doesnt crash to the sea floor. Then the shuttle would be in a room with air. Probably be able to drop it into the water for extra launching fun though.

You can do this, but shuttles cannot enter a hull, so once it unlocks it will not be able to dock to the main sub again. There are a few subs on the workshop that have managed to make this work, but it requires some very special setup.

Really, I know you can make moon pools with the hull no transit stuff. So does providing a gap enable the shuttle to pass through like you do for people to pass through moon pools?

Made a sub that dropped a bathosphere from an air bay with gaps but that was like 2017 or something.

[Quazy]

it would count as overlapping hulls and i believe all hulls have collision. unless there are some setting to remove that from a hull. i doubt they would be able to go back together.

[WoJo ©]

A shuttle can go through a hatch, but not inside a hull. In my sub I had a extendable door which I replaced (for the sake of simplicity) with a hatch. There was no hull beyond that hatch, just a docking port for the shuttle and the hatch would open/close automatically on undocking/docking. The issue with that approach was that the hatch outside the hull would not retain collision (so monsters can go through the closed door) but regalis supposedly fixed that about a month or 2 ago (although I did not check that yet). Otherwise everything worked well.

Either way, using normal hangar door (as in, the door itself is a shuttle) would be the best approach if not for the bugginess that comes with it.