Antenna / Battery Status

[cyberKerb]

Researching the KSP API, I found that the status property of an Antenna is not settable, which is a bugger when I want the ability to set it to be broken for a mod idea.

Are there any other ways to set an antenna to the stock status of "broken"? Or is the only option to write a new Module (like DangIt) for all antennas that allow it to be broken "on purpose"?

 

For the battery values - is there a way to set an unloaded ship entire EC value to 0? Ie I'm wanting the vessel to have zero EC upon in loading into physics range / becoming active vessel? Or would resource catch-up mechanics likely override the 0 value I set at an prior point in time went unloaded?

Edited September 8, 2017 by wile1411

[sarbian]

ModuleDeployableAntenna extends ModuleDeployablePart. You have a breakPanels() method in there.

[cyberKerb]

Awesome and thanks @sarbian - running testing now. Any thought on zeroing the EC?

Edited September 8, 2017 by wile1411

[sarbian]

41 minutes ago, wile1411 said:

Awesome and thanks @sarbian - running testing now. Any thought on zeroing the EC?

Nope. The whole loaded/unloaded process is so involved that there is no easy answer

[cyberKerb]

Just now, sarbian said:

Nope. The whole loaded/unloaded process is so involved that there is no easy answer

K and many thanks - I'll have to have more of a think of how to process the idea assuming that restriction