Vessel Naming Priority Level (in flight)

[zer0Kerbal]

A dev article from1.4 (Whats in a Vessel Name? ( By TriggerAu)) explains how to set showVesselNaming in the part.cfg so that it shows during flight.

Great. I love this. One caveat, it doesn't seem to allow one to change the Priority Level during flight.

I want to be able to easily change the VESSEL_NAMING_PRIORTY_LEVEL of a craft during flight. Is there a way? How? Can something be added to the part.cfg to enable it to be done? Or is this a something requiring a mod to do? Would be nice if stock allowed it in flight, seems like a bug.

 

Add this to the part.cfg to allow

showVesselNaming = True

 

From settings.cfg

SHOW_VESSEL_NAMING_IN_FLIGHT = False
VESSEL_NAMING_PRIORTY_LEVEL_MAX = 20
VESSEL_NAMING_PRIORTY_LEVEL_DEFAULT = 10

Under the root part (and seemingly only for those parts that are manually set in the VAB) is

VESSELNAMING
{
  name = vesselName
  type = type (new type also from BreakingGround = DeployedScienceController and DeployedSciencePart)
  priority = priority (default = 10; max = 20)
}

also - it seems that if a vessel doesn't have at least one part with this set in the VAB, that these are not written to the vessel in the save; so if a vessel with this set docks with a vessel that doesn't - there might be some alterations... checking