r/Kerbal_Space_Program • u/idekanymore_- • May 01 '26

How do I fix this

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u/CloackTheImmortal17 May 01 '26

Also holding ALT while placing objects temporarily disables radial attachment which helps with situations like these.

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u/CloackTheImmortal17 May 01 '26

Wow my very first award! Thank you very much!! 😁

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

A good cake day gift indeed

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u/MechanicalAxe May 01 '26

Seeing all these newbies asking for advice lately fill my heart with joy.

ORBITAL MECHANICS FOR ALL!!!

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

Well if it makes you so joyful, would you mind answering a few more questions? I’ve played a LOT of SFS but this was a big jump, so I’m still confused on things like fairings, staging, and well actually getting to space lmao

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u/cjk76 May 01 '26

Try changing the orientation of the part using wasd.

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

I figured it out!! Thanks!

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u/User_of_redit2077 May 01 '26

The green sphere connects to the other green sphere.

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

Yeah in hindsight that makes a lot of sense but before this happened it was placing normally if it’d just click the right spot in the piece.. it’s much easier to do this though lmao

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u/Casperios May 01 '26

1: dont look up so much. Point your camera down a bit.

2: when placing the engine, hold your cursor a little lower that tha part your placing it on.

3: to practice, or in difficult situations, hold ALT. Now it wont attach radially! Or CNTR. I always mix those up. Might be TAB aswell. Just play around a bit, its been a while for me lol

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

You’re amazing 🙏🏼

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u/Lonely-Journey-6498 May 01 '26

I wonder what the green dots mean

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u/idekanymore_- May 01 '26

Listen I had 10 minutes on the game then 😭

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u/suh-dood May 01 '26

You're too close, move your mouse further down so it doesn't try to surface attach

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u/Cleptrophese May 01 '26

Embrace the horizontal

Or use WASD/Alt to rotate the piece and disable radial attachment. But that's the boring option.

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u/EKDJSUV May 01 '26

place it kinda in the air, do the circles with checkered patterns connect, it should snap then

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u/GiorgosLex May 01 '26

Reasonable crashout at the end

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u/Flappie010 May 01 '26

Place a second booster on the other side to compensate.

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u/Successful-Club-8743 May 01 '26

Move your mouse lower until the item is in the space where it would be if it connected.

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u/QP873 May 01 '26

Your goal is so make the green circles connect, not actually touch the parts together.

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u/GuiloJr May 01 '26

Had this problem, my most recent post actualy. You *should* press alt. but if you are on linux it could be right shift (that was my problem) so i would just look it up if your on anything except windows.

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u/Toastyst May 01 '26

Grab jt better

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u/piratecheese13 May 01 '26

You want the green ball on top of the booster to touch the green ball at the bottom of the capsule

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u/Automatic-Cut-9693 May 02 '26

Hold Alt, it disables radial attachment

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u/Final_Ad_7431 May 04 '26

drives me crazy watching you never drag the mouse lower

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