Make the heat shield fairing flush with the heat shield

[TaintedLion]

Currently, when you attach a heat shield to a decoupler, you get that ugly white protruding fairing that covers it and juts out. Can't we just have it so the fairing is in line with the edge of the rest of the stack.

Just an aesthetic issue

[Rath]

Oh my yes.

[tater]

Yes. Deadly Reentry has nice looking decouplers for heat shields. Honestly, the stock decouplers in general look terrible (except for engine fairings which look OK).

[SmallFatFetus]

Ven's stock revamp solves this problem, as well as just about any other part related issue.

[Captain Sierra]

Ven's stock revamp solves this problem, as well as just about any other part related issue.

We shouldnt need a mod to make stock not look terrible. Stock should look acceptable as it is, then there are mods for people who want a different aesthetic paradigm.

[SmallFatFetus]

@Captain Sierra Very true. But the modding community listens a whole lot better than Squad. So for now, we've gotta make do.

[r4pt0r]

I support this suggestion for the stock game.

[RogueMason]

I posted about this a while ago, so YES, smooth-out the fairings!

[Mr. Speed]

yeah, the stock heat shield fairings just seem out of place.

Does anybody know how to disable the heat shield fairings completely in the meantime? they look better without it and I tweak the decoupler beneath it always so it touches the shield, a bit compacter and it looks better when the fairings disappear.

[EnderKid2]

They also don't have to become transparent on mouseover. That's just distracting.

[Hydrazine_Soup]

Im in for smooth heatshield fairings!

Edited March 5, 2020 by Hydrazine_Soup

[lajoswinkler]

Any news on this terrible, ugly problem?

Deadly Reentry solved it nicely.

[GluttonyReaper]

This is actually already solved ... kind of. There are actually two nodes on the bottom of heatshields now. It's a bit of pain sometimes, but if you attach decouplers to the higher node, it simply doesn't have a fairing, instead having the decoupler up close and flush with the heatshield.

[tater]

Except the decoupler is also too big. That image also shows how awful the stock 2.5m tank textures are.

[lajoswinkler]

This is actually already solved ... kind of. There are actually two nodes on the bottom of heatshields now. It's a bit of pain sometimes, but if you attach decouplers to the higher node, it simply doesn't have a fairing, instead having the decoupler up close and flush with the heatshield.

That's clipping and could cause your vessel to explode.

[GluttonyReaper]

That's clipping and could cause your vessel to explode.

Really? Huh, never knew that. Guess I've just been lucky so far. Seems odd that Squad would add an extra node there, in that case.

[TaintedLion]

That's clipping and could cause your vessel to explode.

I have found if the decoupler/separator is big enough to separate the heat shield from the structure beneath, then it's fine. I wouldn't use the 2.5m separator (2 pieces) though. It causes the heat shield to remain attached to the structure beneath by a thread, even though they are considered separate vessels. I had a large fuel tank with Nervs attached to it, coming back from Jool, and it lead to some... tricky landing situations. The capsule survived, along with all of the crew

[sal_vager]

Really? Huh, never knew that. Guess I've just been lucky so far. Seems odd that Squad would add an extra node there, in that case.

It is not clipping, it is a purposeful change to allow players to avoid the automatic fairing if they choose to do so.

* Removed transparency and added direct-attach node to heat shields.