Part Tools 0.23 Crashing With New Props, Help?

[Angelo Kerman]

Hi all,

I noticed that with KSP 1.0.5, we have some new props and interiors available such as the mk1InlineInternal, Seat_Passenger, and CargoBagA. When I try to load these props or new spaces into Unity, Unity hangs and eventually crashes. Has anybody else experienced this? Is anybody able to successfully load the new spaces/props? If so, how?

Thanks for your help.

Edited December 9, 2015 by Angel-125

[NecroBones]

I suspect we need to wait for the new part tools to be released.

 

[taniwha]

This is because the new models use .mu version 4 which introduces a new (replacement) material block format. If you are trying to study the new models, try using my blender .mu addon to import the models. There are many areas in which it is still lacking, but it's good for looking at the models, colliders, loc/rot/scale animations, and to a limited extent, even the materials (not all materials are set up correctly).

[Angelo Kerman]

1 hour ago, taniwha said:

This is because the new models use .mu version 4 which introduces a new (replacement) material block format. If you are trying to study the new models, try using my blender .mu addon to import the models. There are many areas in which it is still lacking, but it's good for looking at the models, colliders, loc/rot/scale animations, and to a limited extent, even the materials (not all materials are set up correctly).

I just downloaded the latest version of your addon, thank you for maintaining that, it's really helpful. I think I'm doing something wrong though, with Blender 2.75 I'm unable to load the, say passenger seat .mu. Here's the error I get:

It looks like there's a shader script that's going south. I've installed all the scripts from your addon into a sub-folder in the addons folder in blender.

Thanks for your help.

[taniwha]

Hrm, I'll look into that. passenger seat? external command seat?

[edit]Apparently not, though I had to fix a bug for it anyway (pushed). One of your models?

[edit 2]Just noticed it gave the shader it was looking for. I don't know that one, it must be new. I'll do up a fallback for unknown shaders.

[edit 3]Ok, I have pushed a change that makes the importer fail gracefully on unknown shaders: you get an empty material (ie, no nodes set up) and a message in the console.

Edited December 10, 2015 by taniwha

[Angelo Kerman]

6 hours ago, taniwha said:

Hrm, I'll look into that. passenger seat? external command seat?

[edit]Apparently not, though I had to fix a bug for it anyway (pushed). One of your models?

[edit 2]Just noticed it gave the shader it was looking for. I don't know that one, it must be new. I'll do up a fallback for unknown shaders.

[edit 3]Ok, I have pushed a change that makes the importer fail gracefully on unknown shaders: you get an empty material (ie, no nodes set up) and a message in the console.

That did the trick, thank you. The stock passenger seat from PropsGeneric, which is in the new Mk1 inline crew cabin, loads into Blender now. Thanks again!

[taniwha]

Ah, an IVA prop. I didn't think of that. Thanks, I was able to confirm for myself that things were working as intended (such as setting up the material properties so they could at least be examined).