Fairings broken?

[Prometheus]

I've noticed something really weird with fairings, as I will now demonstrate with pictures of dubious quality:

 

 

So first off, weird particle effects when I place a fairing... It's a gas puff of sorts that constantly plays on a loop.

Here I am on the launchpad, weird effect still there for some reason, but the fairing is behaving like a fairing.

Buuuuuuuut...

Here we are at the image of the most dubious quality, due entirely to the fact the fairings exploded and the camera was like "nah, imma hang back here". Hopefully the distinct lack of fairing can be seen on the nose though.

 

Anybody else have this problem? If so, does anybody have a fix?

Edited April 27, 2016 by Prometheus

[Plusck]

Never noticed this happening. Could it be that you have things clipping into one another under the fairing? That would explain the explosion..

btw, fins at the top of rockets tend to increase instability, especially with SAS, and should generally not be used. Although it seems odd, maybe the game thinks they're clipping into the fairing? That would also explain why the effects are centred around the top of the fins.

Edited April 27, 2016 by Plusck

[KocLobster]

It does look like your fins are clipping into the fairing. Try moving them down (or better yet remove them, you don't need them ).

[bewing]

I couldn't help but to disagree with Plusck -- fins at the top of tall rockets dramatically improve stability and are vital. They replace the fins at the bottom (just so long as your first stage has plenty of drag).

But your rocket is not tall, and you have a thrust vectoring engine -- so yeah, ace all the fins and see what happens.

[Plusck]

2 hours ago, bewing said:

I couldn't help but to disagree with Plusck -- fins at the top of tall rockets dramatically improve stability and are vital. They replace the fins at the bottom (just so long as your first stage has plenty of drag).

But your rocket is not tall, and you have a thrust vectoring engine -- so yeah, ace all the fins and see what happens.

Ah well, we're going to have to disagree completely on that. Let's add that to the list ; )

[Prometheus]

I should point out the rocket is nothing but a demonstrator for odd fairing behaviours. Its design and efficiency are irrelevant to the discussion. 

 

The only thing under the fairing is a Mk1 command pod, the rocket was so oddly unstable that the top fins were the only reason it didn't flip right off the bat, and the fairings exploded regardless of whether the fins were in contact with the fairing or not.

[Harry Rhodan]

In my experience decoupling animations in the VAB are usually a sign of a broken mod.