Extend more things in VAB

[Tortoise]

You can extend alot of stuff in the VAB by right-clicking it (ladders, etc).

But more things need that ability, like antennas and solar panels.

So we can see how it looks on the ship prior to launch.

[Captain Sierra]

You can extend alot of stuff in the VAB by right-clicking it (ladders, etc).

But more things need that ability, like antennas and solar panels.

So we can see how it looks on the ship prior to launch.

Much as I am opposed to the answer, "There's mods for that.", there is TweakableEverything, which includes the ability to tweak most things, including stagability of decouplers, toggle solar panels and their sun tracking, toggle any part using moduleAnimateGeneric (read: antennas). Alternatively, you could change it to be FSanimateGeneric and use the firespitter plugin, which comes with the advantage of actually playing the animation.

Now, I will second this and say that pretty much everything TweakableEverything does needs to go stock, sooner as opposed to later. Right now, it's just an interim patch to fix an incomplete feature.