How to find in game part names from part files?

[lorange7]

Im trying to modify some parts in a mod as the parts are - in my opinion - unbalanced and in the files there is nothing at all i can find that relates it to the in game name, even inside the files. Help would be much appreciated :)

[king of nowhere]

sometimes - often - the name of the part in the save file is not the name of the part in the game.

you have a simple way to discover which one is the actual name. make a new ship with a single part, the part you want to find. give that ship a name you can find easily. launch it. then open the save file, look for the ship you just launched. it will have exactly one part, so you can look its filesave name. then you can look for that part elsewhere.

that said, different mods handle things differently, and not always you can fix things by editing config files.

in the kerbalism mod, there are two config files that track all chemical processes, so if you want to change something about chemical plants, or radiation shields, you have to go there, not in the part file.  but other informations are not in a comfortable editable file, and some edits just cannot be done.

if you specify what is the mod and what you are trying to do, maybe someone familiar with the mod will help you better