Spawning a model (part) from an modified existing part?

[TwistedMexi]

I have a part that has a force applied to it, to fly off in a random direction. What I need help with, is how do I spawn that part mid-flight, when an existing part has been triggered?

I've modified the inline clampotron part as my base model, and ideally when the bay opens, (toggle event) I want to hook into that and then spawn this part, detached from the main vessel, or in a state where I can then tell it to detach. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Edit: I've figured out how to use instantiate to spawn it, but I keep getting null reference when accessing .rigidbody of my new part.

Edited January 2, 2014 by TwistedMexi

[Faark]

Well, the easy way would be to unload the vessel manipulate its protovessel and re-load it. That shouldn't be very hard since protovessel is mostly similar to the saved text file format and you can compare your vessel with and without the spawning part. Ofc you can also try to only do the necessary loading for a single part, but that means you would have to figure out a lot of stuff by yourself if there isn't any other mod doing sth similar you can learn from. KAS might be worth a look. Its the only mod i use that adds parts to a ship.

[TwistedMexi]

So there's no way to simply call a spawn part(vector), vector being coordinates? It seems to me you shouldn't need to unload the vessel to do this.

It's going to be spawning several of these, so unloading and reloading the vessel seems expensive.