Anyone else having trouble with the 5m fairing being oversized?

[GoldForest]

For some reason, my 5m fairing base is larger than 5m, but the fairings themselves still act as if it is 5m. Anyone know the cause?

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Yup can confirm.

The panels of the fairing don't even touch each other when you build it. They are "spaced" out from each other.

The "disc" itself is also over-sized in comparison to other 5m parts.

[JonnyOThan]

This appears to have been broken in the 1.4.2 update.  The 5m fairing in 1.4.1 was fine.

[Squelch]

A configuration entry is missing for the 5m fairing, and we'd like to offer an unofficial workaround in the meantime until the next patch.

Close the game.

Find the following file and open it in a text editor.
 

"PATH\TO|\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\SquadExpansion\MakingHistory\Parts\Payload\fairingSize4.cfg"

Add the following line between the closing curly brace and node_stack_interstage01a

    rescaleFactor = 1

The result should look like this

...
MODEL 
	{
		model = Squad/Parts/Aero/fairings/AutoTruss
		scale = 4,4,4
		position = 0.0,0.22,0.0
	}

	rescaleFactor = 1
	
	node_stack_interstage01a = 0.0, 2.17, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0, 2
	node_stack_interstage01b = 0.0, 2.27, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 2
...

Save the file and the fairing shell will no longer have the gaps when used.

This is an unsupported workaround, and If you are not comfortable with editing files, then please wait until the next patch.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Relevant thread with alternate Module Manager fix:

 

Edited March 29, 2018 by Rocket In My Pocket

[Wilhelm Kerman]

12 hours ago, JonnyOThan said:

This appears to have been broken in the 1.4.2 update.  The 5m fairing in 1.4.1 was fine.

True, even more problems. Whenever they try to fix something, they hardly fix it and cause trillions of other problems. I heard that one of the components of Kopernicus is having issues. Oh no... 

Edited March 30, 2018 by Wilhelm Kerman

[GoldForest]

13 hours ago, Squelch said:

A configuration entry is missing for the 5m fairing, and we'd like to offer an unofficial workaround in the meantime until the next patch.

Close the game.

Find the following file and open it in a text editor.
 

"PATH\TO|\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\SquadExpansion\MakingHistory\Parts\Payload\fairingSize4.cfg"

Add the following line between the closing curly brace and node_stack_interstage01a

    rescaleFactor = 1

The result should look like this

...
MODEL 
	{
		model = Squad/Parts/Aero/fairings/AutoTruss
		scale = 4,4,4
		position = 0.0,0.22,0.0
	}

	rescaleFactor = 1
	
	node_stack_interstage01a = 0.0, 2.17, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0, 2
	node_stack_interstage01b = 0.0, 2.27, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 2
...

Save the file and the fairing shell will no longer have the gaps when used.

This is an unsupported workaround, and If you are not comfortable with editing files, then please wait until the next patch.

Thank you, it worked!

[basic.syntax]

If you know "just enough to be dangerous" to yourself and make a backup copy of the cfg file with a different name, and put it just about anywhere in the Parts sub-folders... the very helpful loading process may find this backup, leading to other problems.  Do not leave any "helpful backup" anywhere in the Parts sub-folders, its best kept outside the KSP folder tree in its own special place. 

And thus, I spent half an hour wondering why R&D was filling up with 5M parts that I would purchase for use, only to go into the VAB and find that I still needed to purchase them, looping back and forth between VAB and R&D, with a side-trip into the persistent file to see what it looked like in there (a growing list) until it dawned on me that I was fighting with my "helpful backup" parts. lol. 

It's all good now