how to change your flag mid flight

[RatBeer]

Well i just landed on Eve only to find out that the flag i wanted to plant wasn't the right one. Does anyone know how to change the flag after you have landed. Even if this does mean editing persistence. cheers

[Jenteb07]

Is replacing the .png an option?

[RatBeer]

Is replacing the .png an option?

oh good point. you mean swapping the names of the .png?

[Tokay Gris]

You can look up the flag you have in the persistence file and change it to the one you want.

[Jenteb07]

oh good point. you mean swapping the names of the .png?

indeed I do

You have to relaunch your game though to let the flag change.

Edited June 3, 2013 by Jenteb07

[Mihara]

A more sensible approach is savefile editing, since replacing your flag file will change it everywhere it is displayed.

One interesting addition to savefile structure in 0.20 was that each part now has a "flag" field in it. First I wondered why, but now I see that this is probably to support flag decals on models -- models can now display the current mission flag if the modeler provisions for it, so they need to know which flag they were launched with. If you dock two ships with different flags, the flags will stay different.

It's a bit finicky to edit as a result, but still trivial:

			PART
			{
				name = some_part_name
...
				flag = 

You need to edit the flag name in every part of a specific flight if you want to be sure it sticks. If you did not select a different flag for a specific mission, the "flag =" will be empty, and the flag that's actually planted will be the global default one:

GAME
{
	version = 0.20.2
...
	flag = Squad/Flags/retro

You need to give the path to the flag from GameData, without the file extension.

It is also easy enough to alter the flag that has actually been planted:

		VESSEL
		{
...
			PART
			{
				name = flag
				flag = Squad/Flags/retro