Fairing construction needs an overhaul

[hikerchick29]

You basically cannot close a fairing onto another part further up the stack.  it makes it pretty much impossible to set up a Saturn V style payload bay without the final product having major visible gaps

[The Aziz]

I'm sure you can. Yes there's a lander inside.

[hikerchick29]

4 hours ago, The Aziz said:

I'm sure you can. Yes there's a lander inside.

Im not saying it’s totally undoable, I’m saying it’s prohibitively difficult to a state of near impossibility.  This is a consistent complaint I’ve seen numerous people share.  The fairing system can take a stupid amount of trial and error to figure out EXACTLY where the damn thing will allow the fairing to close.  You personally figuring it out doesn’t negate the unnecessarily complicated problem for the rest of us

[ncw33]

I've had success with this technique:

• Use a fairing, don't construct it yet
• Place one of the half-pipe cargo trusses on the fairing.
• Building lander within the cargo truss
• Place fuel & engines below the fairing
• Then close the fairing around the cargo
• Finally - TRICK! - place the capsule on top of the cargo truss, clipped into the top of the fairing

The trick is that the game won't let you close the fairing if it collides with anything.

So remove the top stages, close the fairing, them pop them back on (clipping into the fairing).

Easy peasy hack.

[Jeq]

I think fairing should be able to clip trought some objects at least, to make fairing making more simple. They should pass at least all sideral decouplers and maybe some structure parts which can be assumed to be vertical at some builds.

Edited January 31 by Jeq