Radial Chute stowed after jettisoning fairing

[bmyers831]

Hi,

I just discovered this.  This bug does not involve any mods though I do have 1 or 2 installed.  I'm using KSP 1.7 64 bit:

Put together a stock capsule with a stock docking port on top (jr in my case), an upside down stock payload fairing on top of the docking port, and the stock escape tower on top of that.  Attach a stock radial chute to the side of the capsule.  Build the fairing so it comes down and covers the capsule.  Set up an action group that lights the escape tower's engine and undocks the fairing at the same time.  The fairing will now pull off with the tower if the action group is triggered.  Set up the abort action to decouple the capsule and fire the escape tower. 

This setup mimics an apollo style fairing.  You can ditch the fairing by lighting up the escape tower and undocking the fairing part with your action group.  You abort by triggering your abort to decouple the capsule and fire the tower, then hitting your action group to ditch the tower and fairing, then deploying the chutes when the time is right.

Fly a test- trigger your abort and watch the capsule with it's docked fairing and escape tower fly off the top of the rocket.  Then trigger the action group that undocks the fairing.  Watch it tumble away from the capsule.  Sweet!  Now trigger that parachute... "Parachute cannot deploy while it is stowed" error message appears.

Note that the fairing part is never told to ditch the fairing.  It turns out that this is what triggers the bug.  I can work around this by adding the fairing to the action group that ditches the tower.  It would be nice to not have to do so.  For my purpose it's just aesthetics but perhaps another use case is more catastrophic.

Thanks.

Bryan

Edited May 6, 2019 by bmyers831

[schwank]

Ok thank you for posting this.. yes it's more devestating on my end, I was trying to beef up my Saturn V and the parachutes weren't working. Then I went back to all my old craft that I know work for sure, and same error with the chutes on those. Must be a bug in 1.7, I'm on 1.7.2

 

So you're saying it's not a bug with the little service bay I packed the chutes in, it's probably an issue with the fairing I have attached to the tower which jettisons.

Edited June 25, 2019 by schwank

[Cavscout74]

From what I've seen, the game does not like moving/separating fairings with parts inside.  I think it causes the game to not recognize that the parts under the fairing have been unpacked.  It should work fine if the fairings get jettisoned at the same time as the tower is fired - maybe not as realistic looking, but it should work.