Say I designed and saved something cool in Career mode. Now I want to load and modify that ship in a separate Sandbox save.
Any saved ships don't show up. Only the Stock ones do.
Any possibility to import them somehow?
Load saved ships from one game save into another
kerbal-space-program
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Your VAB and ship files should be in ~/Library/Application Support/KSP_osx/saves/[YourSave]/ships/ on OS X.
The location of the real Library folder is a bit different on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), you will need to use Finder to get to it.
Select "Go" (Or press Command + Shift + G) from the system menu
Then select on "Go to Folder" (skip this step is you used the keyboard shortcut)
Type in "~/Library/Application Support" and then "Go."
On Windows, the same files should be in the folder at %KSP_ROOT_Directory%\saves\...
You're best bet is to err on the side of safety and use too many. The potential financial loss for chutes ($700 each for radial) is much less than the potential financial loss of your entire ship.
I'd love to be able to give you some simple formula like "Use 1 chute for ever x tons". But there is no simple formula. The complex formula can be calculated using the tool you've linked to.
That said, these are some excellent tips:
- Balance your lander - position your chutes so you land as flat as possible.
- Land on a flat surface - otherwise you could topple over.
- Keep your ships flat - pancakes don't topple over.
- Use modular girders
or i-beams
instead of lander legs
. Modular girders and i-beams have 6x higher impact tolerance (80m/s) than the strongest lander legs (12m/s). You can land a 1000 ton ship on Kerbin with a single chute if it can survive a 80m/s landing. - Fire your rockets prior to landing to slow down your ship.
Good luck.
Best Answer
Yes, this is entirely possible, you just have to move the
.craftfile from one save folder to the other. Inside the KSP directory, you should be able to find the ship you created in career inside the$KSP$/saves/<save name>/Ships/folder. Ships created in the space plane hanger will be in the SPH subfolder, while ships created in the VAB will be in the VAB subfolder.