Tweaking Mun Pocket Edition for 1.1.3

[Gordon Fecyk]

So Mun Pocket Edition was only last updated for 1.0.5. I can load it on 1.1.3, but I lose colour on oceans for pocket bodies that have them, ending up with shiny black areas where oceans are supposed to be.

There are two images for each ocean-bearing body: One for all of the land plus a transparent ocean, and a seemingly transparent single pixel image that still has colour data. I can get the ocean colour using GIMP's colour picker and then fill the transparent parts on the main image to get a reasonably usable pocket body. The end result is viewable on the Kerbin Is Awesome, Eh? video I did. The oceans don't look very shiny though; I think the intent was to use a partially transparent image for the oceans so there'd be some shine to them.

I even tried adding a partially transparent layer using the ocean colour. The second image here is my attempt at using 53% transparency; it's like the game either turns transparency on or off depending on the percentage of transparency.

Is there some way to restore this semi-transparency so the pocket bodies' oceans get that shine back? Maybe this sort of thing isn't supported in 1.1 anymore.

Edited August 6, 2016 by Gordon Fecyk
Added note on using partial transparency

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

Hi, i just dl'd and checked out whats going on with the oceans (in my role of necromodder ) I've a feeling that the trouble is stemming from the shader used to color the oceans, I seem to recall some changes to the alpha shaders since 1.0.5.    I'd imagine that in an ideal world the water part of the model would use Unity's  translucent specular . You may get lucky with messing around with the texture but i reckon the only real fix would be re exporting the models fixing the shader and exporting them back into KSP

A short time later....

I couldn't resist, and was a nice diversion from a mare of a UV unwrap.  Turns out it is a shader issue, Once I'd worked out what worked best it  looks quite smart,  The planet surface uses an alpha cutoff shader, I added a bump map because it was easy (and gives the surface nice definition), and the ocean layer which actually sits inside the surface model, not the layout I'd expected. uses a specular shader with the shininess maxed out, and voila shiny oceans. The mod has an open source license so it is a candidate for updating with no issues.

Edited August 6, 2016 by SpannerMonkey(smce)
experimental updating

[Gordon Fecyk]

2 hours ago, SpannerMonkey(smce) said:

A short time later....

This is what I love about this place. There are people who just can't resist fixing the things they can fix.

You have a tip jar or some equivalent?