Radial seperators!

[DerpenWolf]

So yea, what I'm suggesting is a radial separator that leaves NOTHING on either seperated item. I would find this very useful for probes that I want to mound radially on a craft. What do you think?

[nli2work]

A surface attachable stack separator is probably the best option. I'm planning to do something like it this weekend. we'll see how it works out.

[Eric S]

At one time (0.18 and 0.19), the structural pylon did exactly that. I don't know when it stopped doing that, but after it stopped doing that, one of the devs posted a part config for something that would still do the same thing.

And yes, I'd like that part too. It's nice for attaching larger probes to craft without throwing the CoM of the probe off.

[MKI]

Couldn't you just use normal seperators?

[nli2work]

right there's stack decoupler, which drops away with the discarded piece; stack separator, splits rocket and becomes a debris; and radial decoupler, I believe half of it gets hidden while it remains with the main vessel.

the strutural pylon still has the separator code in the config file.

comment the two lines out and it should do the job actually. don't know why it was disabled.

//ejectionForce = 5
//icon = DECOUPLER_HOR

I'll probably still make the alternate parts since I already got the mesh and textures done.

[somnambulist]

This is about as close to stock as you can get. Should still work in.23.5

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/43720-21-Radial-Stack-Separator

[LethalDose]

What size probe are trying to attach? At the current time, I don't think you can attach any of the 0.625 m parts radially to other parts, so I'm not sure if a separator is gonna solve your problem.

[nli2work]

I made one myself, same draw back as that one. no symmetrical separation. have to do them one at a time since it's treated as stack separator by code. By the looks of it in 23.5 radial decouplers disappear after decoupling, no left over anchor part on main vessel after reloading it.