Storing extra data on a vessel?

[Daid]

Hi,

I'm looking to store some extra information on vessels. I want to store some extra parameters on each vessel for something I'm working on. This really needs to be on the vessel. But I cannot find a proper way to do it. Right now I'm keeping a hashmap of the vessel.id with the information, but this won't work properly when quicksaving/loading. It also gives a minor issue when undocking/decoupling. For docking there is no issue, as I can just use the "primary" vessel information in case of docking and discard the other info. That's no problem.

Any idea where I should start looking? Can I add a custom hidden part to a vessel at runtime which keeps my info? Any tips for this?

[IndieDev3D]

Hi, if you're trying to save values in Unity3D one way to do that is to make PlayerPrefs, example:

PlayerPrefs.SetInt("Name of your value", value);

Keep in mind if you have a float value you may also use PlayerPrefs.SetFloat.

Good luck!

[Faark]

Here we recently had a thread about a related topic. I guess the easiest way would be to add an module to one of the vessels parts (primary ones?). But that might break compatibility. Part.customPartData property. Fuel lines and struts use it to save some info, they update it on "onBackup". But its a pure string, so multiple modules trying to write stuff into it will likely break stuff as well.

[Daid]

Ok, thanks, adding a PartModule like TacLifeSupport does to a vessel might be the best step forward. My addon is quite invasive already, so that's no big issue.

I'm tricking the of whole KSP to support multiple solar systems, requiring me to keep track of the system a vessel is in, and if it's not in the current system I need to "fake" the orbit of this vessel away and store the old orbit so I can restore it when you switch to the vessel. I actually have the random solar system generation parts working already, and the solar system switching. However, right now the vessels are not moved out of the way when you switch systems. Which will cause mayhem as I'm changing SoI and planet/moon orbits. It won't be perfect (a lined up SoI switch won't happen due to the faked orbit) but it will make inter stellar travel possible.