Polling parts on ALL vessels, active or not?

[Agathorn]

So one of the grand plans for TestFlight was that it would keep track of ALL vessels, not just the active one. However I started doing some testing on that today as I work on the GUI to handle multiple vessels, and my heart sank. Vessel.parts returns on empty list on a vessel if it isn't the active vessel.

Is there a workaround?

[Daid]

https://github.com/daid/KSPHullCamera/blob/master/HullCamera.cs#L175

That should help you.

[Agathorn]

Protoparts? Interesting. Thanks I will give that a shot.

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Ok well this doesn't seem to work the way I need. I can see the modules on a ProtoPartSnapshot, but they appear to be only a shell of what they actually are. I can't for instance cast the module to the actual class that it is and call methods on that. It appears they are basically a frozen snapshot of the part's last status (which makes sense in a way), and not really usable.

[Daid]

Ok well this doesn't seem to work the way I need. I can see the modules on a ProtoPartSnapshot, but they appear to be only a shell of what they actually are. I can't for instance cast the module to the actual class that it is and call methods on that. It appears they are basically a frozen snapshot of the part's last status (which makes sense in a way), and not really usable.

Yes, because the ship is not actually loaded. Else the game needs to keep all parts active all the time, which would be a serious hog on resources. So if you want to make long distance parts do something, you'll have to deal with them as protoparts, and protomodules.