Deactivating a part when vessel destroyed

[lo-fi]

And by vessel destroyed, I mean it's no longer part of a controllable vessel, (forcibly) removed from said vessel, suffered unscheduled disassembly or otherwise classed as debris.

My parts keep on running, including sound effects, so I need a way of stopping or disabling the partmodule in such circumstances. Any ideas? I had assumed this would happen automatically, but apparently not!

Cheers

Edited September 29, 2014 by lo-fi

[Diazo]

There should be a game event of some sort you could tie into, but I as I don't know that event, I would probably use something like the following.

In your partModule code:

Vessel lastVessel;

public void FixedUpdate()
{
if(lastVessel != this.part.vessel) //this statement checks to see if the vessel this partModule is attached to belongs to the same vessel it did last FixedUpdate frame
{
--Insert your code to check if the partModule should be active or not.
lastVessel = this.part.vessel; //Set our lastVessel variable so that on the next FixedUpdate frame the if statement above is false and does not execute.
}
}

Hope that helps some,

D.

Edited September 30, 2014 by Diazo

[lo-fi]

Thanks, that ought to sort out the parts with a kind of their own! I might see if I can hunt down the event, though.

[Xaiier]

You could check the vesselType against the VesselType enum to see if it's debris and do stuff accordingly.

[lo-fi]

That might also be useful for something else I'm doing...