Fairings

[RiggerLee]

I installed the KW rocket parts. How do the fairings work? I can put the payload on the base and attach it to the rocket but the aerodynamic fairings just seem to click onto points in space around it. They just hover out there in mid air, even through launch. Is there some way to get them to close? Am I using them incorrectly? How are they supposed to be attached?

Lee

[SSSPutnik]

Use symmetry to attach them and start by clicking them to the base part.

[Supernovy]

You have to attach the floating node on one of the cone pieces to one of the floating nodes from the base. Then attach the fairing walls to the bottom of the cone.

There's a video in the OP of the KW Rocketry thread that explains it.

[RiggerLee]

That's got it. I was using the nodes wrong and in the wrong order. I wasn't able to find the KW thread but I found a tutorial on you tube. I can never seem to find the appropriate threads in my searches.

Lee

[Hodo]

Honestly Procedural Fairings are just easier to use, and overall more useful.

[Apollo13]

Be advised: fairings are just decorative at this point. They add weight, but do not reduce drag or improve aerodynamics. That said, I understand that situation will change sometime in the distant future.

[Hodo]

Be advised: fairings are just decorative at this point. They add weight, but do not reduce drag or improve aerodynamics. That said, I understand that situation will change sometime in the distant future.

Unless you run the FAR plugin, which the OP may.

If that is the case then fairings are very important.

[Apollo13]

Hodo, Thanks for that info. One of these days, I'll try the FAR mod. Sent a rep to your profile for that advice.