Making changes to a module without restarting

[Zander]

Hi,

Im creating my own module in Visual Studio to handle some rocket functions I want automated (KOS is too laggy for what im doing). How can I test changes I make to the module, without having to restart the entire game?

[erendrake]

If you find out how, I would be interested to know. it would cut down on development time!

Have you tried the new version of kOS? this release is much faster

[Faark]

You can't. Just slim down your development KSP environment and add a monobehavoir that directly throws you into the testing situation. Technically it might be possible to load a new version of your assembly and modify you part's prefab, but you would still have to reload the scene and make sure to remove all other global stuff like event listeners manually. It doesn't seem worth the effort, though.

[The Flitter]

Easy. Just open up the debug menu, go to "Database" and there should be an option called "reload all" Click it and it'll reload all of your addons!

[DMagic]

Easy. Just open up the debug menu, go to "Database" and there should be an option called "reload all" Click it and it'll reload all of your addons!

This only reloads parts and their .cfg files. It doesn't work for .dll files.

Trigger Au has a good plugin for speeding up the loading process a bit in the way Faark described. There are a few these floating around other places too if you look. You can also setup a batch file to copy the newly built .dll to your gamedata folder and start KSP, which helps a little. But between those things and deleting unnecessary parts there isn't much you can do to make the development process quicker.