Atomic Rocket Motor - Fix for jammed fairings [With Video]

[Targa]

Hey all. If you've ever clustered atomic engines together, no doubt you've noticed that when you stage them with decouplers, the ejected fairings that hide the engines when you attach a decoupler will fly off the sides of the engines and get jammed between your engines. Sometimes these ejected fairings can even do damage or knock and engine off. The problem is that the fairings are being ejected sideways rather than downward, like normal engine fairings.

The fix: Navigate to your game folder Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Squad\Parts\Engine\nuclearEngine and open the part.cfg in Notepad or another text editor. Near the bottom you'll see:

MODULE
{
       name = ModuleJettison
       jettisonName = fairingL
       bottomNodeName = bottom
       isFairing = False
       jettisonedObjectMass = 0.1
       jettisonForce = 1
       jettisonDirection = 1 0 0

}

MODULE
{
       name = ModuleJettison
       jettisonName = fairingR
       bottomNodeName = bottom
       isFairing = False
       jettisonedObjectMass = 0.1
       jettisonForce = 1
       jettisonDirection = -1 0 0

}

Change the following lines, so it looks like this:

MODULE
{
       name = ModuleJettison
       jettisonName = fairingL
       bottomNodeName = bottom
       isFairing = [COLOR=red]True[/COLOR]
       jettisonedObjectMass = 0.1
       jettisonForce = [COLOR=red]5[/COLOR]
       jettisonDirection = [COLOR=red]0 0 1[/COLOR]

}

MODULE
{
       name = ModuleJettison
       jettisonName = fairingR
       bottomNodeName = bottom
       isFairing = [COLOR=red]True[/COLOR]
       jettisonedObjectMass = 0.1
       jettisonForce = [COLOR=red]5[/COLOR]
       jettisonDirection = [COLOR=red]0 0 1[/COLOR]

}

With this change the fairings will eject quickly straight downward, just like every other engine's fairings. Here's a short video to show the before and after:

Enjoy!

-Targa

[lammatt]

a more simple fix is,

press [ and then ]

or

press ESC >>space center >> tracking station >> select ship and fly

boom

the stuck fairings are gone

[Targa]

That won't help you if they damaged your ship. Also, notice in the video the way the rocket was thrown off course by the ejection force of the fairings?

[Sirrobert]

a more simple fix is,

press [ and then ]

or

press ESC >>space center >> tracking station >> select ship and fly

boom

the stuck fairings are gone

You also need to shutdown the engine while you stage for that to work.

I'd rather fix the problem, rather than work around it all the time.

Thanks OP, I'll be trying this.

[Vaporo]

a more simple fix is,

press [ and then ]

or

press ESC >>space center >> tracking station >> select ship and fly

boom

the stuck fairings are gone

Or just time warp.

[MarkyJ279]

Targa, this is awesome. Nice fix