Comet save file help!

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

Hi everyone! So I've seen different ways to make comets spawn and the most easiest way to make them spawn is to throw a ton of sentinel space telescopes into sun orbit- which is exactly what I did.... anyway, i launched a rocket containing 4+ sentinel space telescopes and I activated all of them and i waited about 10+ minutes, and nothing came up exept a LOT of asteroids (which I don't necessarily want...) so, I decided to edit the save file ( I'm pretty good at making custom kerbals, etc.) so I went to my only spawned interstellar comet ( doodke 1- don't you just love kerbal's auto-generated names?!) and I found doodke 1 with crtl-f, and then I find doodke 1 along with...... potato comets?!?! WHAT ON KERBIN IS THAT?!  My 1 guess is that potato comets are kerbal's way of saying unspawned comets..... help is greatly appreciated!  I will also make an other forum thread to what i did with doodke 1! Thanks

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

Here's what i did with doodke 

 

[HansAcker]

21 hours ago, JIMMY_the_DOG said:

My 1 guess is that potato comets are kerbal's way of saying unspawned

PotatoComet is the KSP "part" that constitutes a comet. Asteroids use PotatoRoid.

You'll find the size class in a DISCOVERY node in the comet "vessel".

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

5 hours ago, HansAcker said:

PotatoComet is the KSP "part" that constitutes a comet. Asteroids use PotatoRoid.

You'll find the size class in a DISCOVERY node in the comet "vessel".

Thanks!

5 hours ago, HansAcker said:

You'll find the size class in a DISCOVERY node in the comet "vessel".

Can you explain that part? Like the node. Thanks!

Oh now i do see the size..

Do you know how i could create a custom comet?

[HansAcker]

On 9/3/2020 at 8:53 PM, JIMMY_the_DOG said:

Can you explain that part? Like the node.

I don't really know much about it, myself. I only ever changed the size value :)

On 9/3/2020 at 8:53 PM, JIMMY_the_DOG said:

Do you know how i could create a custom comet?

The easiest way is to wait for the Kopernicus mod to support comets, so you can control their orbits and frequency.

Other than that, you could probably just convert undiscovered asteroids to comets by changing their part to "PotataComet" and increasing the size in DISCOVERY.

 

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

On 9/8/2020 at 6:53 AM, HansAcker said:

Other than that, you could probably just convert undiscovered asteroids to comets by changing their part to "PotataComet" and increasing the size in DISCOVERY.

Smart. Thanks for your help!