Blast-Door Block

[RXC]

Essentially a block that would open on command and allow passage through. Could look like the current dock block but with actual sliding doors.
 
With news of ‘Ship-to-Ship docking’ soon to be implemented into the game, it would be great to be able to build fully enclosed areas, accessible through such blast-doors, for transporting your ships together.

(also, could be used to close hangars)
 

[phezzan]

I'm confused - what would pass through? Fighters?
Since there's no animated geometry at all (and I bet a bunch of optimizations assume that) I doubt very much this is going to happen.

[RXC]

The scenario I picture is this:

I would have big bays within a huge carrier ship (or station), closed with such Blast-Doors, in which I would store my own ships. When I want to deploy one of those ships, I undock it from the carrier and open the blast doors for it to leave.  

If this works, I assume that it would also be possible to place a door in front of a hangar and open it when I want to deploy fighters. 

(yes, this tends to be an aesthetic feature)

I do agree that there is probably some technical difficulty but I am not sure it would be very hard to the dev team. If we take turrets as an example, it seems to me a much more complex feature that works very well.