[Question] Invisible part

[Guest]

Hey, i recently made an engine in blender, and i loaded it up into KSP. It wasn\'t there. I moused over where it should have been, and it turns out its there. But its invisible. Attached is the part folder, theres no .blend because i forgot to save it.

[Sbowyer28]

Is there a texture idk about modelling but that may be why

[Guest]

Yes, there is a texture. If it didn\'t have a texture it would just be black.

[requimrar]

Umm... Try 'Recalculating Normals' from the tools panel. I get problems sometimes where the inside of my engine nozzle is transparent, which happens because the normals are not facing outside. Since you have a texture...

1. Did you apply a material to the objects? I recommend a simple, default grey or white material.

2. Did you apply the texture by dragging and dropping the .png onto the object in the Scene Hierarchy, or by dragging and dropping it onto the 'Materials' box in the Inspector?

3. Check your part.cfg. AFAIK, you shouldn\'t have all the specPower and alphaCutOff things inside anymore.

4. Check your normals like I said. Transparent/invisible objects are usually caused by normals facing the wrong way.

[Guest]

Umm... Try 'Recalculating Normals' from the tools panel. I get problems sometimes where the inside of my engine nozzle is transparent, which happens because the normals are not facing outside. Since you have a texture...

1. Did you apply a material to the objects? I recommend a simple, default grey or white material.

2. Did you apply the texture by dragging and dropping the .png onto the object in the Scene Hierarchy, or by dragging and dropping it onto the 'Materials' box in the Inspector?

3. Check your part.cfg. AFAIK, you shouldn\'t have all the specPower and alphaCutOff things inside anymore.

4. Check your normals like I said. Transparent/invisible objects are usually caused by normals facing the wrong way.

1. Yes

2. Wat. I use blender. Not sure you\'re talking about blender.

3.Yep

4. I lost the file anyways. Whatever.

[requimrar]

If you 'use blender', then I\'m assuming you do not use the new Part Tools and Unity3D, which means the only suggestion I can give is to recalculate normals. But since you lost the file...

[tadeass]

What program did you used for texturing? Maybe you have an invisible texture on it, try to change color. And, secondary, normals. Check them.

[NIN3]

I figured it out! Its got nothing to do with blender. What you did (or rather, didnt) do, is put in the line setting the texture.

So just add

texture = engine1clr.png

To your cfg and your good. (also, when I tryed it out your model was kinda messed over. its not centered very well....)

EDIT: If you want, you can import the .dae to blender and make a new blender save file.....

[Guest]

I figured it out! Its got nothing to do with blender. What you did (or rather, didnt) do, is put in the line setting the texture.

So just add

texture = engine1clr.png

To your cfg and your good. (also, when I tryed it out your model was kinda messed over. its not centered very well....)

EDIT: If you want, you can import the .dae to blender and make a new blender save file.....

Any idea on how to fix the out of line thing?

[NIN3]

erm.... im not sure, since the orriginal .blend is lost. but you could redo a .dae and see if that fixes it.