Changing Parts - Designing ships/planes

[SuburbanHermit]

Was wondering if there was an obvious way in game to change a part without disassembling it from my craft during the design/building phase.

For example, I have a great spaceplane design but it needs more oxidizer. I wanted to change a liquid fuel fuselage into a rocket fuel fuselage, but it's got all kinds of control surfaces and wings attached and I really really don't want to remove any of it if I don't have to.

So in short, is there a way to change, for example, an MK2 liquid fuel fuselage into an MK2 rocket fuel fuselage without taking anything off of my plane? Thanks anyone

[andylaugel]

Not really, no. Some parts can be altered via a right-click option--all the DLC engines can change their top cross-sections--but not to that degree. I see that kind of variable fuel tank part more in mods, like USI MKS-OKS.

[SuburbanHermit]

Originally posted by andylaugel:

Not really, no. Some parts can be altered via a right-click option--all the DLC engines can change their top cross-sections--but not to that degree. I see that kind of variable fuel tank part more in mods, like USI MKS-OKS.

Cool, thanks. It's not a big deal. I was able to change out pieces without changing the craft's functionality too much. I just spent so much time tweaking it so it didn't nose down when I took off flight assist! But just in case there was an easy way I was overlooking, thought I'd ask.

[AoD_lexandro]

Best advice I can give for this is to build in sections so that you can take parts out and replace them with like for like stuff. For example my cargo SSTO doubles as a passenger SSTO if I swap around the cargo bay for a passenger cabin. To make it easy I made the wings one seperate section that just bolt on to the sides in mirror mode.

[SuburbanHermit]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Best advice I can give for this is to build in sections so that you can take parts out and replace them with like for like stuff. For example my cargo SSTO doubles as a passenger SSTO if I swap around the cargo bay for a passenger cabin. To make it easy I made the wings one seperate section that just bolt on to the sides in mirror mode.

Yeah, this is going to be my best bet probably. Putting my 10 wing parts on one large, main part. Much easier than moving 10 parts at a time. Thanks for the tip.