Hidden gameplay utilities

[klesh]

Makes me feel pretty good that after about 1,200 hours, I know all of these.

[monstah]

2 hours ago, Jovus said:

Probably fairly well-known, but in the editor, if you have a part selected and you hold down the Mod* key, that part will only attach node-to-node. Useful for all kinds of things - placing antennae just right, getting things in cargo bays, you name it.

*Usually Alt

Also, if you alt-click a part, instead of grabbing it (and it's children), it will duplicate  

[Jovus]

1 hour ago, monstah said:

Also, if you alt-click a part, instead of grabbing it (and it's children), it will duplicate  

And if you shift-click, you'll grab the whole ship, regardless of whether you clicked the root part.

[icedown]

I thought the Caps Lock key just made it so that the longer you held down the key the more thrust the RCS provided, Almost like the shift for main throttle but with auto cutoff on release

[Snark]

9 hours ago, Trann said:

And here I've been turning off RCS during rolls and pitch maneuvers like a chump!  (Is that config file sharable?)

Okay, here it is.  Just make a file named with the .cfg extension somewhere in your GameData directory, and put this in it:

// Make all RCS thrusters have yaw / pitch / roll disabled by default.
@PART[*]:HAS[@MODULE[ModuleRCS]]
{
    @MODULE[ModuleRCS]
    {
        %enableYaw = false
        %enablePitch = false
        %enableRoll = false
    }
}

...will do the trick, as long as you've got ModuleManager installed.

[DasValdez]

Press 4 in the VAB/SPH, and reroot a group of parts that aren't even attached to the craft. 

[Leafbaron]

press "F" when moving parts with the part mover for awesomeness and less faffing around.