How to make mod parts apear after stock?

[Wallace]

Soo, I installed KAS and Infernal Robotics, and now I have to go through about 3 pages of parts to get to the stock batteries because the mod parts all go in front of stock.

I noticed however that Stretchy Tanks appear after the stock tanks, and I'm wondering why this is, and how I can do that to the other mods? I don't really want to install a parts organiser mod if I don't have to.

[Faark]

Have a look at your GameData directory...

Infernal Robotics

KAS

Squad

Stretchy

That should be your sorting mechanism. The lazy guy solution would be to rename directories^^

[Greys]

it's best to rename Squad as plugins can be location sensitive and may break if in the wrong place.

[Wallace]

So if I rename the Squad folder as aardvark then the stock parts will always be first?

[Greys]

yep, aSquad might be more rememberable. Just remember, it loads everything in alphabetical order, using a depth first tree walk, so if you add another mod and it's alphabetically before whatever you name squad to, it will come first. But parts are designated by values in the .cfg file, so the position of them doesn't matter to your save. Internals are also named so they can move around. It's specifically plugins that might screw up if they're in the wrong place.

Edited November 2, 2013 by Greys

[Wallace]

I called it AAAsquad, so I don't think I'll have anything come before that, it worked just fine, now I can get to my batteries and solar panels easy, and infernal robotics with all it's dozens of different sizes are sent to the very end, hooray!

[stringyquark]

good info, thx!

[Talisar]

Renaming the folders could also mess up any parts that uses MODEL nodes in the cfg files, because it references the folder name directly. I don't think any of Squads parts do this, however.

[Greys]

Mmm, good point, Squad doesnt but there are a lot of addons that MODEL squad bits

[Galacticruler]

using notepad++ I corrected the issue with MODEL { } tags pointing to Squad not pointing anywhere when Squad was renamed to something else

86 occurances corrected in 5 clicks.

[Wallace]

I just found another unintended concequence; Flags.

If you used a squad flag in your save before changing the directory name, it will go to the default flag, you have to edit the persistence file to fix it.

[allmappedout]

I'm totally making a mod called 'Aaaaaaaah! Go Faster!', a set of overpowered SRBs which can only be used if Jeb is in the command capsule.