Making something with a new model might be the biggest hurdle. This was incredibly low effort, ALL that I did was pull out the invisible dummy line that did the docking lock, and make it longer. And it was well before DX11. I wonder if it uses Blender? I learned the VERY basics of that to play around in VRchat for a while.

@mistertreky2007 A good place to look into modding for SE is here:
https://forum.keenswh.com/threads/shaostouls-modding-tutorials.7379705/

how do i mod blocks like this

Lol no. Do it yourself. Feel free to use anything I've done here, but I haven't even looked at this in a long time.

please make a mod that adds a landing gear with a silly range {25 M} for orbital turrets please do not make the mod replace the normal gear with it but adds another block

Newest recreation of the mod with all credits to you EvilSmoo can be found here . It was done as a request by someone who really loves your mod, but couldn't deal with the DX9 textures anymore :(

Yes. I have considered that.

The main problem is: I simply don't care enough. That's a lot of work, and completely not worth the effort to me.

Don't let me stop *you* though, go nuts and make it, and I'll happily subscribe to it! :D

Have you considered a version that didn't bother looking like a landing gear?

Get a ship into a decent hover, and lock. Without the pesky footpad sticking out.

Perhaps looking like a grav generator. (upside down when mounted on the bottom of a ship.)

Could also be used to capture drifting debrie.

Sure, go nuts. It's only a minimally edited stock landing gear with the lock dummy extended anyway.

Oh my no. And probably never going to be.

Quick question.... DX11?

It has never been available for small ships, and I'm probably not going to bother.

If you want it THAT much, get a 3d modeling program, fiddle with the lockon doodad in the model, and save and re-encode it. If you use the base model (like I did), you can just re-use all of Keens assets, but with a longer lock-range thing.

Not available for small ship :(
Need update add for small ship

this is grate for having under your armor so you can dock ships with out having the landing gear exposed to damage

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=323631324

Same model, overrides basic gear. If this gets funky, you can try adding the replacer version, or switching.

Drop a comment if it stops working. I've had it stop on a dedicated server a couple times, but after a restart it seems to start working again.

As far as I can tell, it's not anything I *can* fix, sorry. It works the great majority of the time anyway, and when it fails, it just works like regular gears, so nothing catastrophic, at least. :/

thanks for getting back to me
looks like it might be a problem on my end
if I reload a map without getting right out of the game some mods stop working and will not start until i do a full restart on the game
thanks for the mod I have them mounted behind large grinders on my auto grinding ship holding stuff till the grinders finish them stopping it bouncing of into space

Just checked the map I took the screenshot, working fine locally.

The only difference between this gear and standard is the invisible item in the model that dictates lock range.

The "Long Range" gear doesn't have a specific slot specified, it will appear in your list under large blocks, and in the all-blocks list. (That way, no issues with displacing other items, and dodges possible mod compatibility issues. I hope.)

I was thinking about doing a straight-up replacement for the normal gear, it would just be a matter of renaming the edited model file to override the base landing gear model. Less work, actually, than adding in a new item.

is this no longer working as it is just a standard landing gear for me

great idea

This is awesome