Multiple textures help please

[angusmcbeth]

Hello

I have a part ready for spaceport. I would like make the part available in different colours. How to I go about this without having different part folders for each colour? I have read the 0.20 part tools thread, its a bit over my head for now so keep in mind that I'm new to this.

I appreciate any advice given. Thanks

Angus

[DrDima]

I've been playing around with that for a bit and it seems you would need to write a plugin. For the exact methods to use I'm not sure, I'm still clueless about a lot of the code.

I might be wrong though.

[angusmcbeth]

I was thinking that too, after reading the part tools thread, but I'm not sure.

Thanks DrDima

[Dave7]

Put your textures in a folder named textures in your mod folder. In your part.cfg file add texture = name_of_your_texture_file.png to each of your parts. You can have all the parts in one file or multiple .cfg's if you prefer.

[Dave7]

Edit: double post.

Edited June 13, 2013 by Dave7

[angusmcbeth]

Thanks Dave, I can get the parts to show up in the VAB when I do this, but as soon as I launch it reverts back to the same colour. Any tips?

SOLVED!! got there eventually. Thanks Dave

Edited June 15, 2013 by angusmcbeth

[Ikkaku]

Curious, what was the solution? Was it as Dave7 mentioned?

[EndlessWaves]

Curious, what was the solution? Was it as Dave7 mentioned?

I guess the solution to the second problem was that each part needs to have a different name.