No Textures being written with PartTools .20

[jfjohnny5]

I'm just starting out. I've downloaded the latest Unity and PartTools .20 I've followed the readme and the YouTube tutorial C7 made for .15 along with reading a more recent .18 tutorial. I believe I have everything setup - including setting the GameData directory through the new usage of the Tools menu in Unity. My model is a simple cylinder with a texture applied and exported as a FBX file. It shows up fine in Unity. I set the material shader to KSP Diffuse and made sure the texture is assigned. I created a new empty game object and assigned the PartTools component to it. I set the model name and path as well as choosing MBM for the material. But upon clicking "Write" the only thing exported is the model.mu file. The MBM material file isn't being created. I'm not sure what I've missed.

Just to be thorough I went ahead and created a simple part.cfg file. Actually, I just copied the Squad file for the basic fuel tank and just changed the name to match my part - just to see if I can get it to show up in the VAB. It shows up in the list of parts on the Propulsion tab as expected. But it's "invisible." If the model loaded I have no idea as there's no texture.

Help?

[Fiddlestyx]

Are you changing "Texture Format" to MBM AND checking "Convert Texture"?

[jfjohnny5]

No, as that's no longer an option with the new .20 Part Tools:

[jfjohnny5]

I just tested it on a fresh install on a completely different machine. Same result. I can "Write" out the model.mu, but no textures come along with it. Has anyone else had issues with the .20 Part Tools?

[jfjohnny5]

Man this is frustrating. It's not showing any errors either. The only output in the console is:

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Kerbal Space Program/GameData\J5/Parts/TheCube\model.mu written.

UnityEngine.Debug:Log(Object)

KSPPartTools.PartWriter:Write(String, String, Transform, TextureFormat)

KSPPartTools.PartToolsInspector:DrawWriterGUI()

KSPPartTools.PartToolsInspector:OnInspectorGUI()

PartToolsEditor:OnInspectorGUI() (at Assets/PartTools/Editor/PartToolsEditor.cs:18)

UnityEditor.DockArea:OnGUI()

[Lack]

I have to say, I'm having similar issues with the 0.20 tools.

However, they write the textures and the model.mu, but these are not then loaded by the game. I'm writing my .cfgs in the same way I did prior to installing 0.20 so there may be something new I need to put in.

Might have to go back to the 0.18 tools if I can find them.

[Moon Goddess]

There's a thing I found, give me a bit and I'll post a screen shot.

This took me a while to work out.

EDIT: Ok, can't get screenshot right now.

Go to Add component, add parttools library, that component has a force texture format..

Edited June 6, 2013 by Moon Goddess

[jfjohnny5]

Go to Add component, add parttools library, that component has a force texture format..

Yeah I found that last night. No change.

Can I assume your suggestion means that you're not having issues with .20 then Moon?

[Moon Goddess]

I am not now after I found that.

[Fiddlestyx]

I have to ask, what do the 0.20 part tools have that the 0.18 don't?

I am still using the 0.18 part tools and they work fine. (as far as I know, I'm still learning all this)

[jfjohnny5]

I finally got it. Man, do I feel stupid. But I'll share just so no one else has to endure this. Make SURE you have the part setup as a Child of the GameObject with the PartTools component in the Unity Hierarchy. I had it below it, but it wasn't an actual child. So nothing was being written out (I'm now pretty sure even the model.mu file was actually empty).

[Greys]

Don't feel too bad about that one, it's exactly what the most popular 'how to unity' tutorial on this board says to do, and it's very wrong.

[Moon Goddess]

Well I appologize for misleading anyone, it appears I accidentally did the the real fix at the same time as I found the Parts Tools library.

[jfjohnny5]

Don't feel too bad about that one, it's exactly what the most popular 'how to unity' tutorial on this board says to do, and it's very wrong.

Tell me about it. That one little bit of misinformation cost me a lot of frustration. Such is life.