Design New Parts

[Zosma Procyon]

If I wanted to design custom parts for my own use, could I do that in CAD software, or would I have to code the parts in?

[Tyko]

There are two major components, you need the part/textures and you also need a config file that tells the game what the part does. You'll need both. Writing the configs is pretty straightforward and you can usually take a shortcut by copying an existing part that's similar and making the necessary changes.

Take a look in the GameData/Squad/Parts folder to see how parts are built

Edited October 16, 2018 by Tyko

[purpleivan]

I just started this myself at the weekend, I work in games dev so I had a head start to some extent, but there were some thing for me to learn before getting something into the game correctly.

I think most people are using Blender as a modelling tool, although I use 3ds Max. Howeveer you should be able to use anything that can output a file that the Unity engine can import, such as FBX.

Here are some useful links that I used.

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Making_an_asset_from_start_to_finish

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Part_Modelling_Guidelines#Scale_Factor

 

 

[Snark]

Moving to Modeling and Texturing Discussion.