Flamin_Squirrel

Many thanks. It's still not a gentle separation, but better than it was.

Is anyone able to provide some advice on this one?

Hi guys. I've created a 4 petal type interstage fairing, by making each act as a separator. I then use an action group to separate each petal simultaneously. The logic works fine, but I want to be able to dock the two stages after separation. At the moment this isn't possible, because even with ejectionForce set low (1 is shown below, but I've tried 0.01 for example) it separates with too much force, often imparting pitch and yaw to the stage I want to dock with (making it excessively difficult). Is there any way I can get around this problem without using an additional mod like KW petal adaptor? MODULE { name = ModuleDecouple isOmniDecoupler = true ejectionForce = 1 }

Excellent, thanks for the comprehensive answer!

I'm in the process of creating some parts that combine several staging actions (e.g. a part that combines an engine, fuel tank and decoupler) in one. The part works how I want it to for the mostly, with the only problem being I have to right click on the part when in game to select the correct action. Because I've only got a single staging icon, I can't arrange the order in the stage list; pressing space often activates the wrong action (e.g. instead of starting an engine, it activates the decoupler). I can use action groups as a kind of work around, but this isn't ideal. So, is it possible to modify a cfg file to allow multiple icons for a single part, or does this require more in-depth development i.e. plugin?