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Bug #18290

T-12 ~ T-50 Structural Tube does not allow surface attach

Added by yku12 about 6 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Updated
Severity:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Gameplay
Target version:
-
Start date:
03/30/2018
% Done:

10%

Version:
Platform:
Windows
Expansion:
Breaking Ground, Core Game, Making History
Language:
English (US)
Mod Related:
No
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Description

T-12 ~ T-50 Structural Tube is a perfect light weight solution for constructing space station's frame.
However, they are not allowed to be radius mounted as fuel tanks do. They can only be mounted at their top and bottom nodes. I can't figure out why, since they are intended to be structural and the mounting restriction strongly limited their function.

There is a work around though. You can firstly make Structural Tube as a root and let the other part radius mount to it and then re-root to that part. But this solution is far from ideal and makes symmetrical mounting extremely complicate.

Some discussion (https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/173188-radius-mounting-for-newly-added-structural-tube/&tab=comments#comment-3339379)

History

#1 Updated by Robert.Keech almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Updated
  • % Done changed from 0 to 10

Issue no longer occurs

#2 Updated by Robert.Keech almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Updated to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 10 to 100

#3 Updated by yku12 almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Updated
  • % Done changed from 100 to 10
  • Expansion Breaking Ground added

This is not resolved.

I think you misunderstood my question.

You can surface mount other parts to Sturctural Tube. But, you can't surface mount Sturctural Tube to things like fuel tanks.
To be more specific:

for Structural Tube:
attachRules = 1,0,1,1,0

For fuel tanks:
node_attach = 2.5, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1
attachRules = 1,1,1,1,0

Which shows Structural Tube doesn't support radius attach.

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