How do ships fly?

[Two]

I was just looking into the code to probably find a solution for ships constantly destroying docking ports, where I stumbled over this line of code:

 

local dock = station.position:transformCoord(pos + dir * ship:getBoundingBox().size.z * 0.5)

 

Now I am slightly puzzled about how ships do fly internally. This line calculates the stopping position for the ship by the Z-size of the bounding box, but I would imagine that ships move "forward" towards their X-axis (that's at least how the player ship works), so it should be the X-size of the bounding box, right?

 

Is this a bug in the Avorion code or am I not getting this right?

[Nathaniel Thorn]

X is not the front :)

 

X = Right

Y = Up

Z = Look (front)

 

However AFAIK it is not a given, that ships center position is in it's bounding box center, so for some ships this position would be too close to the station.

To calculate that properly, the frontmost block should be found and use it's position & size as a distance instead of half of the ship along it's forward axis.

[Two]

Ok so we fly towards Z... good to know. ^^

 

And that bounding-box issue could explain why NPCs constantly try to destroy my stations.