organisation of parts

[tillyd]

ok running with lots of mods as led to 1000+ parts

i know there are lots of mods that organise parts but frankly i just dont feel like using those

what im after is knowledge on how to create a new catagory .... i know this is possible as magic smoke industries infernal robotics mod as its own parts catagory

[Crzyrndm]

You either need:

A) To write your own plugin

Use the plugin from Filter Extensions and write your own configuration files for it (Feel free to ask questions in the mod thread )

If you want to go the plugin route, just find a mod that adds a category to use as a template (probably best not to look at FE for this). eg, the IR category uses the presence of an IR module to indicate parts that should be included in the category. The FE equivalent config would be (using Module Manager to add in the call from Filter by Function to make the IR Category. This assumes it is already defined fully somewhere else):

SUBCATEGORY
{
    name = IR Category
    icon = icon_filter_off // FE makes icons out of pairs of textures, one as listed and the other ending in _selected (eg. icon and icon_selected). IR doesn't follow this premise so a second state will be procedurally generated
    FILTER
    {
        CHECK
        {
            type = moduleName
            value = MuMechToggle
        }
    }
}

@CATEGORY[Filter?by?Function]
{
    @SUBCATEGORIES
    {
        list = IR Category
    }
}

Edited June 3, 2015 by Crzyrndm

[Rath]

I belive that if u go into advanced mode in the editor you can add new ones. *Pssst*ganeplay questions*

[tillyd]

i belive that if u go into advanced mode in the editor you can add new ones. *pssst*ganeplay questions*

advanced mode adds new tabs only in advanced mode im wanting to circumvent using the advanced tab