How to attach complex data to my part ?

[pixartist]

So, I have a lot of data to save in my PartModule. What is the standard way to save / load it, so that it stays persistent from VAB to prelaunch etc ?

[NathanKell]

What kind of data?

If you want it to be persistent you had best serialize to and from confignode in OnSave/OnLoad...

[pixartist]

No, I can't serialize it to the node with the node system. I need to serialize an entire custom node system ( with node connections, events, data etc). Currently I simply use a binaryFormatter to serialize it into a binary file. I might at some pont switch to xml. How can I store my data "next to" my vessel ?

[xEvilReeperx]

One option would be to compress it (if necessary), convert to base64 and then store in a ConfigNode the way SCANsat does. They found a handy snippet to help with this

[pixartist]

One option would be to compress it (if necessary), convert to base64 and then store in a ConfigNode the way SCANsat does. They found a handy snippet to help with this

Great Idea!