Superior Ship Save Sorting

[Ironwatsas]

I've encountered a small but novel problem. Having built many, many ships in my time (and backed most of them up for future space adventures), I've come to the discovery that the current save list format is rather unsuitable when you have ~100+ craft in your VAB/SPH folders.

Having played Garry's Mod and being well accustomed to it's Advanced Duplicator (which saves it's files in customizable folders), I could consider a similar system in managing saves would be useful in KSP. Basically, instead of a list, you'd get a menu full of folders which you can rename for different ship categories (ex Landers, Orbiters, Mod Ships, etc). Possibly with a corresponding system for subassemblys, or a merger of the two. It would make it much easier to navigate and find the ship you want then the list we have now.

While on the subject, perhaps include a GUI system that shows a picture/3d representation of the ship along with it's description, so it's easier to figure out which it is. Many KSP ships tend to have cryptic mission names and such a feature would be very helpful.

[Hurry- Starfish!]

Yes, please. I have tons of crafts and also tend to have many different versions of the same craft, so something like that would be really helpful.

A 3D representation probably won't be possible, but maybe a preview screenshot taken on save from an automatically calculated camera position would work.

[Garek]

This is so much needed. And if this is done, please make it also available for the subassemblies.

[Sirrobert]

Very very much Hell yes!

[Superfluous J]

First off: I'm having the hardest time saying the title of this thread out loud

I totally agree with you, and I would LOVE little snapshots of the ship. Was it "Mun Kethane Test 2" or "Mun Kethane Sides Test" or "Mun Kethane Rescue And Lander" that had the rover? Oh. Look there. It was "Minmus Alpha Kethane Lander."