Edit a tank that cannot attach radially so that it can.

[nhnifong]

I see that the stock 1m fuel tanks can attache to radial decouplers but the rcs tanks cannot. Would someone please point out to me which attribute in the config file makes this possible?

[ferram4]

This is what you want to look at in the part.cfg:

// attachment rules: stack, srfAttach, allowStack, allowSrfAttach, allowCollision

attachRules = 1,0,1,1,0

Change the first 0 to a 1, and it should work.

[nhnifong]

This is what you want to look at in the part.cfg:

// attachment rules: stack, srfAttach, allowStack, allowSrfAttach, allowCollision

attachRules = 1,0,1,1,0

Change the first 0 to a 1, and it should work.

Thank you ferram!

[sal_vager]

Hmmm this seems not to work like I'd hoped, the RCS tank is clipping into the other parts, they look pretty funky when attached to radial decouplers though.

[Cykyrios]

I think this is because you need to define a node for radial attachments - can't check right now, but I remember I saw this in another part.cfg file, and this node tells you how far from its center it has to attach.

For parts made with the KSP Part Tools, though, I think surface attachments follow the colliders.

[DYJ]

Surface attach mode simply attaches to a surface using the normal radial attachment rules, not surface to surface. So for surface attach to work as intended it needs a offset for the radius of the tank added to the "node_attach" parameter.

"node_attach = 0.0, 0.0, -0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0" Something like this should work, at work atm so I can't give you the exact line.

Hope that helps.

[zapy97]

ctr-alt-shift-d will give you an option for it