pls help with stock fairings

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

(Let’s please try to avoid a flame thread about stock fairings sucking and/or mod X is better)

Trying to get stock fairings to work. My biggest problem is closing a midfairing, 99% of the time they refuse to close on whenever a circular part I’m trying to close them on.

Is it only certain parts?

Is there a tutorial somewhere?

Anybody got any tips or tricks?

[GoSlash27]

Brainlord,

The procedural fairings are a bit buggy, I'm afraid. Generally if you carry the fairing forward a little before closing it it will work better. You will see the "close" option text turn green when it's happy.

Good luck!

-Slashy

[The Aziz]

Yeah, for me it sometimes work, sometimes not, but, to be honest, I find inline fairings useless. I thought they will make whatever is inside more stable but.. it seems that top parts are still wobbly, aand they move inside fairing :/

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

technically "close" mid fairings turns blue. (really should be the mouse cursor)

and I have most of this, but closing a mid fairing just doesn't work.

Edited September 26, 2015 by Brainlord Mesomorph

[Korizan]

To be honest I never found a solution to close midfairings.

As you stated, sometimes they work sometimes it is impossible.

Maybe 1.1 will fix them is the best help I can offer.

[ForScience6686]

I've had no luck with mid fairings. In fact it caused rapid disassembly from what I guess was clipping. To be honest, I would rather have the fairing stay in place and become opaque in the vab instead of it moving out away from the vehicle.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

I would rather have the fairing stay in place and become opaque in the vab instead of it moving out away from the vehicle.

Seconded.

[surge]

Closing fairings requires the closing point to be free of parts along the line of the fairing. It's not difficult, but it is a bit touchy. Remove lights, science experiments, etc. that are in the way, and it should work.

You can put them back in place after you've made the fairing if you want. Which I consider a bug - along with the excessively large area that the fairings seem to need.

Fairings do not provide any structural support at all. If you craft is falling apart, it's because you didn't use struts appropriately.

[ForScience6686]

Was successful last night in a mid fairing. Was able to get out properly placed by having the cursor way above the ship so the payload fairing was closed. Not sure why it worked this time, but I noticed on the first couple placements that the fairing was closed inside the payload fairing. A couple retries and it closed on the proper place.

[Batmanpuncher]

Make sure you place any struts after the fairing is built. Also try using a smaller de-coupler than the fairing base your using ex. 2 meter fairing base use a 1 meter de-coupler.