Kerbal Space Program

Several parts do not have their center of mass defined in their model; the result should be that their mass is located at the part root but what actually happens is their mass is located at the CoM of their parent part.

See attached screenshots which show the location of the CoM in the editor with two test parts:
An OX-4W 3x2 solar panel and a Z-400 battery.

base.jpg shows two Tail Connectors attached end to end. The CoM is in the middle.

Images a1 through a5.jpg show the solar panel in 5 positions along the tail connectors. Observe that the CoM is different in all 5 screenshots and depends on the position of the solar panel.

Images b1 and b2.jpg show the battery in two different positions on one of the tail connectors. Observe that the CoM is the same in both screenshots and does not depend on the location of the battery.
Images b3 and b4.jpg show the same effect on the other tail connector.

Observe that the CoM is different between b2 and b3 (or b1 and b4) because the battery's parent is the different tail connector. This shows that the battery does indeed have mass, but that mass is being located at the CoM of it's parent part.

This is not a bug in the CoM indicator in the editor. A simple see-saw vessel can be constructed to demonstrate the effect in the physics of the game:
Position 2 batteries: One in the position shown in b1.jpg and one in the position shown in b3.jpg. The vessel should tip towards the battery furthest from the lever fulcrum but in fact the vessel is balanced. If you replace the batteries with solar panels, you can see that the vessel tips over correctly.

There are several stock parts that exhibit the same incorrect behaviour.

I assume this is something to do with the model because the CoM is not defined in the part cfg.
Adding CoMOffset = 0.0, 10.0, 0.0 had no effect.

Adding the missing CoM position to the models would fix the issue for those models, however it would be much better to fix the game to use the part root as the CoM instead of the parent part's CoM. This solution would mean all existing parts without CoMs, both stock and mods, would work as expected.

Thanks for all your hard work!