Kerbal Space Program

Whilst building a rocket the other day, I went to place a large RCS tank, when it occured to me that the attachment node balls seemed...rather small. Further checking revealed they were in fact showing up as size 1 nodes rather than size 2... which has interesting implications about the fact that its joints hold like they were made of wet tissue paper.

Looking into the CFG file revealed that the node_attach_top and node_attach_bottom were missing the ", 2" on the end that seems to set the nodes to size 2(Since adding it changed it to what appeared to be a size 2 node). While checking other parts to verify that the extra ", 2" on the end was universal to large parts, I discovered that the large ASAS and large Stack Separator also lack it...and also appear to have size 1 nodes.

The Mk 2 lander can has a size 1 node on top only (The bottom node is size 2), set in the config file with a ", 1" rather than more normal method of just leaving that whole field off, so I'm not sure if that's deliberate or not.

All four of these parts are also missing the 'node_attach' line most size 2 parts seem to have. I'm not sure what the significance is of that, but since most of the large size parts seem to have the first field on 'node attach' as '1.25', and most small size parts lack the line entirely, my hunch is that it has to do with the connection strength increase a few versions back, but I'm really not sure.

I didn't check every large parts' config file, but I did check most of them and these four are the only ones I've seen that didn't have both nodes set to size 2.

My theory is that when the parts were added, the config file was copied from the existing smaller version and updating the attachment nodes section got missed out, somehow.