DebianGamer

Hello! Have been playing KSP since 0.23.5, but not created a forum account until now. Is there a thread on the 3.1.2 release? I couldn't find any. Anyway, I wanted to talk about the interstage adapters,. especially the Saturn V-style petal one. It doesn't seem to work the way I expected – if I but it over an engine, it doesn't decouple. Which, if I understand the cfg file and how nodes work correctly isn't surprising. The KW engines all have an extra upward-facing top node, so they can be attached both to the fuel tank above and to the downward-facing top node (topFDown) of KW3mPetalAdapter. But that node doesn't decouple, only top does. I'm thinking, wouldn't it make more sense and be more consistent to have a downward-facing top node on each engine? Then both the petal adapter and the other interstage shrouds would attach in the same way and the petal adapter decoupling would work (changing the explosiveNodeID would work too, of course, but then attaching the petal adapter below wouldn't work, but who wants that?). Now the interstage shrouds have to be attached at their upward-facing bottom nodes and often clip into the next fuel tank. Additionally, I think downward-facing top nodes would combine well with the fairing bases.