Getting parts of vessels which are out of range.

[PrivateFlip]

When going through FlightGlobals.Vessels i do get all the general vessel information, but i can't loop through the parts of vessels which are more than a few klicks away. I'm assuming its because these vessels are not yet loaded. There is probably a way to get and edit the part info of these vessels, and I suspect I have to work with confignodes, but I haven't worked with that yet. I could find surprisingly little documentation on it. Could someone direct me to it or give me a few pointers on how to edit parts on far away vessels?

[Diazo]

Can you edit parts on unloaded vessels?

This might be a limitation of our API.

From the API docs:

    /// <summary>
    /// The protoVessel can be used to get some saved information about unloaded vessels.
    /// </summary>
    public ProtoVessel protoVessel;

That is the Vessel.ProtoVessel method, specifically says some.

Maybe look at loading the vessel, making your changes and then unloading it? The API indicates there is a Vessel.Load and Vessel.Unload method?

Not something I've tried myself, but it is where I would start.

D.

[NathanKell]

Away from desktop at the moment, but you can grab alll protovessels. They have protopartsnapshots that have some info; the rest is indeed stored in confignodes under the snapshots.

For resources you can get the proto resource defines and edit the amounts in the resource data config node(s).

Or you can look at how I handle recycling in MCE. Other than already having been handed a protovessel reference, it's all there in MissionControllerEvents.cs for OnDestroyed()

[PrivateFlip]

Okay thanks all for the speedy reply as always, this will get me started.