Reducing decouple force?

[Flamin_Squirrel]

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
	}

 

Edited June 8, 2016 by Flamin_Squirrel

[Flamin_Squirrel]

Is anyone able to provide some advice on this one?

[Kartoffelkuchen]

This probably isn't even related to the decoupler Force, but to the part colliders. 

Make sure that the colliders of the patels don't interact with each other, and that they also don't get in the way of the 'main ' Interstage the petals are attached to. If there is interaction between the colliders, parts will ve ejected with a high velocity, spinning in eandom directions, which leads to instability.

hopefully this helps

[Flamin_Squirrel]

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