Manually generating ship thumbnail

[Slother]

Did someone figure out how to manually generate the ship thumbnails? KSP generates these automatically as soon as a ship is saved to file but I want to do it manually.

I came across CraftThumbnail.TakeSnapshop():

public static void TakeSnaphot(ShipConstruct ship, int resolution, string saveFolder, string craftName, float elevation = 45F, float azimuth = 45F, float pitch = 45F, float hdg = 45F, float fovFactor = 1F)

in class CraftThumbnail

This method is almost what I need, but it does not quite work right. The lighting is wrong as it seems to use the current scene, i.e. it changes depending with the sun rotating around Kerbin

Some parts also don't render correctly, especially engine-fairings and fuel-lines, they point in wonky directions. Very wierd..

I guess I'm missing some preparations before taking the snapshop.

[Slother]

Ok, TakeSnapshot does work when executed while in the editor. I didn't figure out how to do it outside of the editor, but I don't need it there so I'll just accept that.

[Slother]

If anyone is interesed, these are the parameters used by KSP to build the default thumbnails.

public static class ThumbnailHelper
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Generates a thumbnail exactly like the one KSP generates automatically.
    /// Behaves exactly like ShipConstruction.CaptureThumbnail() but allows customizing the resolution.
    /// </summary>
    public static void CaptureThumbnail(ShipConstruct ship, int resolution, string saveFolder, string craftName)
    {
        if (ship.shipFacility != EditorFacility.VAB)
        {
            CraftThumbnail.TakeSnaphot(ship, resolution, saveFolder, craftName, 35, 135, 35, 135, 0.9f);
        }
        else
        {
            CraftThumbnail.TakeSnaphot(ship, resolution, saveFolder, craftName, 45, 45, 45, 45, 0.9f);
        }
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// Builds the path to the auto-generated thumbnail for the given ship.
    /// </summary>
    public static string GetCraftThumbnailPath(ShipConstruct ship)
    {
        return string.Format("thumbs/{0}_{1}_{2}.png", HighLogic.SaveFolder, ShipConstruction.GetShipsSubfolderFor(ship.shipFacility), ship.shipName);
    }
}

Edited May 7, 2015 by Slother

[linuxgurugamer]

Just what I needed, thanks