How to delete a part?

[trulala]

I want to delete a part from a ship in orbit. I have lots of ships with ISA mapsat. And I want to delete de mod whithout loosing my ships.

I tryed to replace the mod parts whith stock parts in the persistent file and asingn the same parent number. But this makes a caos and bugs the ships.

Is there a way to delete the mod without loosing my ships?

Tnks

Edited October 4, 2013 by trulala

[KvickFlygarn87]

Well, you could rendezvous and have a kerbal knock off the mod part,

[Goldham]

press f12 and hit the whack a Kerbal, quicksave and try to gently nudge it off.

[iStickyDuck]

Goldham has the right idea! Very kerbal!

[HeadHunter67]

You could edit the config for the part to make it act like a decoupler, then just jettison it from the craft. As to how that's done? No idea, but I'm sure it's possible to make it behave like a different part.

[lammatt]

edit the savefile.

[nhnifong]

I would just edit the CFG file for the mapsat part. Remove or comment out the module that actually loads the mapsat code. This will make all the mapsat parts non-functional, essentially turning them into decorative dead weight. And you can easily change it back if mapsat is ever fixed.

[Epthelyn]

You should just be able to remove all the mod files, including in some cases the part files, from your KSP install without doing any damage at all to a craft simply by deleting them from the respective folders. That is of course assuming the parts involved aren't required to keep the rocket in one piece, but that shouldn't be a problem here.

Works fine for MechJeb and KER.

[HeadHunter67]

If there's a mod part on a craft, deleting the mod (or even just the part!) will cause the craft to be removed from the game. That's why the OP wants a way to remove the part from the craft.

I think nhnifong's idea is the best solution I've heard so far.

[blizzy78]

I would just edit the CFG file for the mapsat part. Remove or comment out the module that actually loads the mapsat code. This will make all the mapsat parts non-functional, essentially turning them into decorative dead weight. And you can easily change it back if mapsat is ever fixed.

To disable it only for a single craft, you can also create a copy of the part.cfg, rename the part, rename it in your save file, and remove all MODULEs from the new part.cfg.

[trulala]

I think I will recreate the ships without MapSat and hyper edit them to where they were

tnks

[Chris.Deadman]

I want to delete a part from a ship in orbit. I have lots of ships with ISA mapsat. And I want to delete de mod whithout loosing my ships.

I tryed to replace the mod parts whith stock parts in the persistent file and asingn the same parent number. But this makes a caos and bugs the ships.

Is there a way to delete the mod without loosing my ships?

Tnks

Hey,

I know your question is kinda old but in case you run into the same problem again: I 've created a tool for that just recently which could come in handy :-)

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/93541-KSPPartRemover-v0-1-0-0

BR, Deads