Fairing Attachment Nodes

[McQuacker]

So the new 1.2 fairings have these five floating attachment nodes, automatically creating a support truss between the fairing base and whatever you're attaching it too. It certainly looks nice and works okay, BUT... When you've created your satellite and placed a fairing, all non-occupied attachment nodes remain, floating around. Now when I want to add a new part to my satellite, it's very difficult to attach something to the actual satellite instead of to one of these attachment nodes. Sometimes they're nearly indistinguishable and I only notice I did it wrong when I'm 60km off the ground and try to open the fairing - and half my satellite blows off.

Maybe it would be possible to have all remaining floating nodes of the fairing disappear when you attach something to one of them?

[Red Iron Crown]

But what if you want to use more than one of them?

Also, I think there is a toggle in the tweakables menu to hide the other nodes, though I don't recall if you need advanced tweakables turned on to use it. 

[RoboRay]

I frequently make use of more than one of the payload nodes.  In fact, that's why there is more than one node... so you can use more than one.

After you finish attaching things to the payload nodes, just right-click the fairing base and turn off the payload nodes.  The previously attached items will still be attached, but all the unused nodes disappear.

Edited October 31, 2016 by RoboRay

[nholzric]

The first time I noticed the attachment nodes was when I decoupled a satellite with a resource scanner on top and the satellite got stuck between the rocket body and the scanner. No scanning for me on that mission! So it sounds like I've had the same problem as @McQuacker and ever since then I've turned the truss and nodes off.

Having automatic nodes inside fairings sounds like a good idea, I'm just not sure how to use them yet.

[McQuacker]

I never noticed you could manually turn the extra nodes off! Thanks a lot guys - and my humble apologies to Squad for trying to blame them for the results of my own ignorance ;p.