Bring back Gigantor Solar Panel attachment!

[bogpad]

I am not sure if it had a visible bubble, but it definately snapped into place at some point, and it doesn't really seem to do it anymore. it is indeed really frustrating to place these things on top of something.

[patrickcanttype]

Agreed. Honestly it would be great if all parts had these nodes. Why not? They're super convient.

[zekes]

oh no its gone ?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It was very useful...

[stupid_chris]

Any ideas how to raise this to the devs?

Feel free to make a suggestion to add one in the development forums, that's why those are there

[kahlzun]

Or just release a modded variant with an attachment_node added in the appropriate place.

[King Arthur]

The Gigantor CFG in my installation of 0.20.2 is identical to the Gigantor CFG in my installation of 0.21.1. If the Gigantor was changed at all, it was prior to 0.20.2.

[Nicholas4132]

I just went through my back catalog of old KSP versions, and can confirm that none of the solar panels had green stack attachment nodes in 0.18.0, 0.18.2, 0.19.1, or 0.20.1.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Nicholas4132

[Zephram Kerman]

I just when through my back catalog of old KSP versions, and can confirm that none of the solar panels had green stack attachment nodes in 0.18.0, 0.18.2, 0.19.1, or 0.20.1.

I did the same thing, but only looking at the part.cfg files directly. The attachment rules haven't changed since the part was introduced. However, the mass and output changed back and forth for some reason.

So I tried hacking the part.cfg, but couldn't get the node to actually attach. Any suggestions?

[Nicholas4132]

So I tried hacking the part.cfg, but couldn't get the node to actually attach. Any suggestions?

I got it to work. In the part.cfg add the line node_stack_bottom = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 after the line node_attach , and change attachRules = 0,1,0,0,1 to attachRules = 1,1,1,0,1 .

[Zephram Kerman]

I got it to work. In the part.cfg add the line node_stack_bottom = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 after the line node_attach , and change attachRules = 0,1,0,0,1 to attachRules = 1,1,1,0,1 .

Nice one! Could've sworn I did exactly the same thing, but obviously I missed something somewhere. You've fixed it.

[EvilotionCR2]

Feel free to make a suggestion to add one in the development forums, that's why those are there

Yeah but I don't remember anything from the suggestion board to actually be in the game.

[jwenting]

Yeah but I don't remember anything from the suggestion board to actually be in the game.

that's because most things there are so outrageous or niche that they're impossible to implement either technically and/or economically.

Either that and/or they're already planned or rejected in the past (a large proportion of "suggestions" are from the "don't suggest" list after all).

[Rhyunix]

Just found this again after 6 months of toil, found this again- that tip works in 0.23.5, hats of to you Nicholos!

[Frank_G]

I can´t remember the solar panels to have attachment nodes at all... and it simply doesn´t make sense...