Custom Craft in missions

[KerikBalm]

So far, I haven't really used the mission builder. Mostly I just use it to place launch sites on various bodies to test designs and concepts.

I was wondering, can I make a mission where I design the craft that the player flies? can I make a mission where the player designs a craft, but then must interact with craft that I have designed and placed in orbit/ on the surface, etc?

How do I do this? I don't see anything like the VAB in the mission editor.

[arctangent]

The VAB (or SPH) is accessed via the "Create New Vessel" button near the bottom of the Spawn Vessel node's action pane.

The node also has an option to select Player Built or Creator Built for the spawned vessel. You need to create a vessel using Create New Vessel before you can select it as a Creator Built vessel.

If you want to spawn a vessel somewhere other than a launch site, select "Landed" or "In Orbit" in the Situation drop-down.

[AloE]

I had the same question, so fyi for anyone else encountering this thread...you can also make & use a sandbox craft [Edit: & I have been doing this successfully in 1.7.3 (with RSS/RO/RVE64k/etc, see this & this post as an example)]:

On 5/21/2018 at 12:30 AM, JPLRepo said:

This is perfectly doable. Start creating a mission and save it.
Copy the craft file from your sandbox to the appropriate \Missions\<missionname>\Ships\VAB (or SPH) folder.
reload the mission in the Mission Builder. The craft will now appear for creator defined vessels.
If you want to use it on nodes in your mission copy the file before trying to select/assign it to nodes in the mission. but even then; once it is copied and you reload the mission you can reselect it on nodes in the builder and select parts, etc.
When you export a mission the craft files in the Mission folder are automatically zipped with the mission.
Craft files that are created from the Mission builder can also be copied from the Mission folder to any other save folder.
Craft that are created during mission playthrough are also available in the \saves\missions\<missionname>\Ships folders as well and can be copied to any other save/mission folder.

 

Edited October 29, 2019 by AloE