transferring a ship in orbit from one save to another

[AlamoVampire]

Okay, I have a question. I am not sure if this qualifies as support as its not a bug or a glitch or anything acting up with the game. I have put a station into orbit in my sandbox save file, and it is working wonderfully. I want to put the same station into orbit in my career mode save, but, would prefer to NOT launch this thing a 2nd time, as it causes nearly 100 debris items go flying off in all directions once I cut its supports away with explosive bolts. Is there a way <i am sure there is, but, I am not familiar with editing the save file beyond speeding up jeb, bill and bob's returns from the grave lol> to do take the station in ORBIT and transfer it via like copy/paste to career mode?

OH to the lovely moderator staff: if you feel this needs to go to support, feel free to transplant this

thanks

edit: not sure why it went into italics near the end, there is no [ I][/ I] in the text lol

Edit: 130 views and not a peep? I can only conclude i have to copy vab to vab and launch again

Edit again.... Come on guys there has to be a way to do this, any help? Pwease pwetty pwetty pwease

edit again i was hoping that someone, anyone would know how to do this.

this thing, is NOT a fun launch, and really really do not want to launch it again. yes, I am aware I can take it from 1 vab into the other, but, thats not the issue. how do I transfer it between saves with it in ORBIT??

Edited February 7, 2014 by AlamoVampire

[AlamoVampire]

okay... gonna bump this at 23 hours and 49 minutes since creation out of pure desperation to know the answer

[Bengsch85]

If you go into the save file and find the vessel you can copy and paste it from one save to the other. I recommend a backup both saves before attempting. Make sure you copy from [vessel] to [vessel] tag or else something will be missing and can ruin a save file if done wrong.

[AlamoVampire]

okay, so it IS possible, but needs laser precision. gotcha.. now to figure out just how LONG the vessel to vessel tag is lol.

[Bengsch85]

With it being a station, many lines. Most parts have numerous lines per part so you do the math I've done it before so it just takes patience

[AlamoVampire]

that station has something like 150+ parts (with OUT the struts/explosive bolts for launch stability) lol. id just rather NOT have to launch it. not saying that I cannot do it, its just, when I kick the struts off via explosive bolts, it creates a hailstorm of debris, of another 80+ parts

[Sirine]

Upload both your save file. I can do it for you.

[Guest]

HyperEdit is easy and fun. I use it often and without guilt. Kerbals live forever. Humans, not quite that long.

[Taki117]

In order to transfer vessels between saves you need to copy the ENTIRE vessel, however some of this can be mitigated by only placing on the launch pad what you need to get into orbit and then enough launch clamps to keep it from obliterating itself on the pad. Then when you put it into space "Launch" it and use the tracking station to clear up the debris.

[stevism]

i recently figured this out with a fuel station around jool i had done right before 0.23 came out. i waited until i unlocked the relevant tech in my career mode so i didn't feel like it was cheating.

the amount of code between the [vessel] tags was astonishingly large. but i just zoomed really far out and that made it easy

the code is well written / indented properly so it's not bad.

[AlamoVampire]

my thanks publicly and privately go to Sirine for helping me get my station into not only orbit in my career mode, but into career mode completely!