How to refuel a vessel

[kulesz]

Hi,

I\'m writing a plugin and I need to refuel a vessel. How can I do it?

I know I can get the \'fuel\' property from FuelTank and add some value, but it allow me to overflow its original capacity.

Is there a method to add reasonable amount of fuel to all tank, not exceeding their capacity?

[Zorkinian]

Here\'s the solution that first comes to mind:

1) Right when you load the craft in, traverse the part hierarchy, and get some sort of unique ID for each part (a hash or something, not sure exactly how that would be implemented)

2) For each part, find out its current fuel, and save that to a list somewhere, mapped to that unique ID

3) When you want to refuel the craft, lookup each part in the hierarchy, and use your map to determine its original max fuel.

There are some edge cases, but maybe this general idea would work?

[kulesz]

Yep, I thought about such solution and it seems quite good for me - although it may be a little bit complicated. I just wanted to check if there\'s some simpler, 'generic' way to do so (just like FuelTank.RequestFuel(), but in other direction :-))

[Sherlock21st]

I'm no KSP modder, but I bet there's a variable out there indicating the max fuel for any fuel tank.

[CAPFlyer]

Have you taken a look at the Fuel Transfer Mod code and see how he did it?