Fuel Lines in .craft file

[markjustmark]

Hi all,

I'm still mucking around with the asparagus building script and have come up against another small problem.

Fuel lines.

The fuel lines that I create don't transfer fuel.

I think the problem is with the cData field, specifically the tgt value.

# central fuel tank

part = fuelTank3-2_4294834092

# outer fuel tank

part = fuelTank3-2_4294802408

#fuel line from outer tank to central tank

part = fuelLine_4294798578

cData = tgt: fuelTank3-2_0; pos: -0.8595003,0.08103676,0.9263369; dir: -0.6787722,0.06399705,0.731555; rot: 0.5609854,-0.4304596,-0.4304598,-0.5609852

srfN = srfAttach,fuelTank3-2_4294802408

How is the number after the name of the target fuel tank (in the example above, _0) determined?

I've seen all sorts of (very low) numbers there, but I don't know how that number corresponds to the _4294834092 of the target fuel tank.

What I have tried is using the _4294834092 number in the cData tgt field, but that doesn't work - the physical connection is there between the two tanks, but no fuel flows. Only when I manually disconnect and reconnect the line does it work properly.

Any ideas?

Mark

[Faark]

Hey,

its the index of your part in the part list. The game does use those indexes quite a bit for protoVessels...

[markjustmark]

Hi all,

It turns out that the number after the target fuel tank does not relate to anything that I can work out.

It has nothing to do with the fuel flow.

As far as I can tell, you set where the fuel line attaches to the source tank, set the direction that it points, and the first part that it hits is the fuel destination.

Mark