Can I repackage Squad parts?

[HandyAndy]

Apologies if there is already a thread on this somewhere.

After many years of enjoying mods I have begun to dip a toe into making my own, and learning from scratch. My first goal is to make a basic go-up-come-down pod with a bare minimum of parts to aid in performance. Like, 2 parts. So far I have been able to squash solar panels, decoupler, and all the propellant I need into an edited version of the Squad stock Mk1-3 Command Pod. I am trying to also add fore/aft RCS, engines, parachutes, and docking port. Another thing I did was fill in the gaps in the Structural catergory, in terms of 1.875m adaptors, hub, and docking ports, by simply changing 'rescaleFactor' in the .cfg files. Baby steps!

So anyway, it's a fun little project and it would be nice to share it, but before I do of course I wonder if sharing only very slightly altered Squad stock parts (even with attribution) as my own mod is taboo. Or actionable.

As an aside, if I accomplished the same thing by writing a Module Manager script instead of copying the whole part, would this be less so?

Thanks

Edited May 4, 2022 by HandyAndy

[theJesuit]

1 hour ago, HandyAndy said:

I wonder if sharing only very slightly altered Squad stock parts (even with attribution) as my own mod is taboo. Or actionable.

I don't believe you are allowed.

1 hour ago, HandyAndy said:

As an aside, if I accomplished the same thing by writing a Module Manager script instead of copying the whole part, would this be less so?

Yes.  Do it this way with MM.  You can change the size, squish parts in different directions, even supply your own texture files and point to them.

Check out the stock tanks file in Simplex Resources for some examples of this.

[HandyAndy]

Thanks.

PS: have just checked out your SIMPLEX Assembly 1.0 -- hooray for bigger EVA building! Thanks again!