Radius mounting for newly added Structural Tube

[HeleleMama]

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. 

 

I believe this is a bug, so please fix it~~

[FleshJeb]

If you have the Editor Extensions mod, you can surface attach anything by grabbing it and hitting "T"  

Or you can edit / use Module Manager on the config files.

[HeleleMama]

6 hours ago, FleshJeb said:

If you have the Editor Extensions mod, you can surface attach anything by grabbing it and hitting "T"  

Or you can edit / use Module Manager on the config files.

Surely you can, but we are here proposing some suggestions to the vanilla game, right?

[Jimmidii]

You could use cubic struts or radial attachment points symmetrically, and then attach them that way.

Extra parts, so not ideal, but it should work.

[FleshJeb]

1 hour ago, HeleleMama said:

Surely you can, but we are here proposing some suggestions to the vanilla game, right?

Oops, sorry, didn't realize the subforum this was in. Thought this was "advice".

Yes you're right, it would make MUCH more sense if they were surface-attachable. Thank you for making the effort to make the game better for everyone.

The common response that I've seen is that you should raise an issue on the bugtracker: https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/login?back_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com%2F

It's much more likely to be acted upon if it's there.

If you should come across a less easily-described bug, here are the guidelines for reporting (bug reporting has since moved to the bugtracker from the forums, but the guidelines still apply): 

 

Edited March 30, 2018 by FleshJeb

[HeleleMama]

4 minutes ago, FleshJeb said:

Oops, sorry, didn't realize the subforum this was in. Thought this was "advice".

Yes you're right, it would make MUCH more sense if they were surface-attachable. Thank you for making the effort to make the game better for everyone.

The common response that I've seen is that you should raise an issue on the bugtracker: https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/login

It's much more likely to be acted upon if it's there.

Thanks, I'm new to this forum, I don't know there is a bug tracker yet. Thanks for telling me this.

[FleshJeb]

Just now, HeleleMama said:

Thanks, I'm new to this forum, I don't know there is a bug tracker yet. Thanks for telling me this.

You're quite welcome. Sorry I didn't respond that way in the first place. I've added a bit more info.

Welcome to the forums, I hope you have a great time!

[klesh]

@HeleleMama are you open to modifying those parts?  I imagine adding radial attachability would be relatively trivial with a module manager patch.

Edited March 30, 2018 by klesh