Object Instantiation / Spawning

[Ishkur]

Hello... again.

I am trying to spawn a part in game during a mission. I am familiar with Unity's Object.Instantiate method, but using it in game doesn't yield any results:

print (this.transform.position);
print (this.transform.rotation);
Instantiate(this.gameObject, this.transform.position, this.transform.rotation);

The first two prints are working, and so I tried instantiating another copy of the part that called instantiate (mainly because I don't know how to pass the gameobject I actually want spawned into the method).

Searching the forum only yielded one other thread asking the same thing. He figured it out, but didn't care to share /:

[Ishkur]

Just an update, using part.Addmodule(module) only instantiates another script component, but not the entire part (mesh with collider and components). Basically, I'm still trying to figure this out.

[Ishkur]

Ok ok, think I might be onto something now.

ShipConstruct newShip = new ShipConstruct();
ShipConstruction.PutShipToGround(newShip, this.transform);

So ShipConstruct and ShipConstruction are part of the KSP class library. As far as I can tell, that code instantiates a new vessel and places it at the location of the part that called the code.

The problem is, the new instantiated ship has no parts, so really its just an empty vessel. I know I can add parts using ShipConstruct.Add(part), but how do I reference/find a part?

[MrHappyFace]

Ok ok, think I might be onto something now.

ShipConstruct newShip = new ShipConstruct();
ShipConstruction.PutShipToGround(newShip, this.transform);

So ShipConstruct and ShipConstruction are part of the KSP class library. As far as I can tell, that code instantiates a new vessel and places it at the location of the part that called the code.

The problem is, the new instantiated ship has no parts, so really its just an empty vessel. I know I can add parts using ShipConstruct.Add(part), but how do I reference/find a part?

Look around the PartLoader class. Maybe PartLoader.LoadedParts (or something like that) is what you're looking for

[theSpeare]

Knocking in for an update request: was this ever solved? I'd like to know how to spawn objects as well