Engine Plate Nodes?

[Ross B]

How do you change the number of nodes on an engine plate?

The only setting I see in the part manager is the shroud. About to use the EM-500 engine plate because it has four engine nodes, but that's pretty sketchy...

[Dman979]

Moved to KSP2 Gameplay Questions.

[Geonovast]

The engine plates don't appear to have nodes.  It looks like the engines will all surface attach, so the nodes aren't needed, would be my guess.

[18Watt]

24 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

The engine plates don't appear to have nodes.  It looks like the engines will all surface attach, so the nodes aren't needed, would be my guess.

If so, that would be very convenient.

[Ross B]

1 hour ago, Geonovast said:

The engine plates don't appear to have nodes.  It looks like the engines will all surface attach, so the nodes aren't needed, would be my guess.

Engine plates have one node, but I often want 3 or 4 (or 6+1) evenly spaced engines under a plate. If I'm surface attaching those engines, I'm eyeballing the symmetry.

Gotta be a bug or a feature that slipped behind the EA launch deadline.

[snkiz]

3 hours ago, Ross B said:

If I'm surface attaching those engines, I'm eyeballing the symmetry

Symmetry works with surface attach.

[Cailean_556]

10 hours ago, snkiz said:

Symmetry works with surface attach.

What he means is, he's judging their position using his eyes - whereas with the engine plates in KSP1, there were 8 nodes around the edge and the central 9th one: no eyeballing needed.

I'm not overly enthusiastic about this change either, to be honest, but part of that comes down to what I am and am not prepared to accept when it comes to symmetry in design.

I'm actually hoping, later down the track, they add enginesinspired by the Raptor engine, the Starship Raptor-engine cluster and the 33-engine cluster from the Starship Heavy booster - I won't have need of engine plates then.

Edited February 25, 2023 by Cailean_556