Is there a mod that allows you to customize the part count limit of each VAB/SPH level?

[cosekantphi]

I'm not trying to cheat or anything, it's just that I'm playing a heavily modded and very customized save so the early game considerations are a bit altered.

I have the saturatable reaction wheels mod installed as well as a patch that reduces all reaction wheel torque to 15%. As a result, all spacecraft I build need to have RCS and this necessarily adds an extra four or five parts to every craft that leaves the atmosphere. So I'd like to raise the part limit of the level one VAB to probably 40 parts to compensate.  Are there any existing mods that would allow me to do this, or is there a way to write a module manager patch to do it?

[HebaruSan]

Looks like Custom Barn Kit can do that ("partCountLimit"):

https://github.com/sarbian/CustomBarnKit/blob/aec0cebcd855a120d1352de5490d6f8773383e0c/CustomBarnKit/default.cfg#L4-L14

CUSTOMBARNKIT
{	
	VAB
	{
		levels = 3
		upgradesVisual = 1, 2, 3
		upgrades = 56000, 225000, 845000
		actionGroupsStockUnlock = 2
		actionGroupsCustomUnlock = 3
		partCountLimit = 30, 255, -1
	}

Edited December 9, 2021 by HebaruSan

[DeadJohn]

Edit: while I was writing this, HebaruSan replied with a better answer than mine. I'll leave this here for reference...

1 hour ago, cosekantphi said:

is there a way to write a module manager patch to do it?

The Komplexity mod does something similar to what you want, using nothing but CFG files. It changes the building upgrade process from 3 big steps into 10 smaller steps.

Download the mod and examine its VehicleAssemblyBuilding.cfg. Copy/edit the cfg as needed to get your customized 3 levels. For starters, you'll probably want changes like this:

@levels = 10 3
@partCountLimit = 15, 25, 40, 60, 90, 125, 150, 200, 255, -1 40,255,-1

Module Manager and Custom Barn Kit are dependencies.

 

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by DeadJohn

[cosekantphi]

12 minutes ago, HebaruSan said:

Looks like Custom Barn Kit can do that ("partCountLimit"):

https://github.com/sarbian/CustomBarnKit/blob/aec0cebcd855a120d1352de5490d6f8773383e0c/CustomBarnKit/default.cfg#L4-L14

CUSTOMBARNKIT
{	
	VAB
	{
		levels = 3
		upgradesVisual = 1, 2, 3
		upgrades = 56000, 225000, 845000
		actionGroupsStockUnlock = 2
		actionGroupsCustomUnlock = 3
		partCountLimit = 30, 255, -1
	}

Thanks for letting me know, this looks like exactly what I need! I'll give it a shot next time I load up the game.