Help a n00b

[LawnDartLeo]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8g1v9irey55fsk/BLENDER.zip

The file above contains all my hours of hard work to make one little toroidal monopropellant tank. I have successfully brought the model into KSP but to this point cannot for the life of me figure out why I cant see the texture. For the time being it is just a placeholder with a smattering of color to make it obvious. Included are the texture and blender files as well as the cfg. Would an old pro please take a look and tell me what I have missed (... more likely screwed up) that is causing the texture to not load?

Thanks in advance.

[NoMrBond]

If you've got a .blend, you should probably run it through Unity (w/KSP Part Tools) and make a .mu instead of a .dae?

[Edit] It looks ok, but what are you seeing when you load the .dae model into the game? (do you have a screenshot?)

[Edit2] Put it through Unity+KSP Part Tools (.mu on the top, .dae underneath)

So, good news, your model and texture will work in game as a .mu (can set the node collider as non-renderable),

Bad news, I have no idea how to manage your export as a .dae (the bottom one, appears untextured) to fix it if you want it to work as a .dae

The log.txt has a couple of warnings for the part too

[WRN 20:56:02.881] PartLoader: Cannot replace model texture with '.../Parts/FuelTanks/MP_TOR/textures/mp_tor'

Not sure what that means in the context of a .dae file? Almost certainly the cause of your trouble though.

[WRN 20:56:02.884] Could not create PartResource of type 'monopropellant

So you'll also need to change monopropellant to be MonoPropellant

Edited October 10, 2013 by NoMrBond

[LawnDartLeo]

No, Thank you!

[NoMrBond]

ok, solved I think, the .dae instructions are hard to find now

make a directory in your MP_TOR part directory called 'textures' and move the MP_TOR.png into it, then it should all work

[LawnDartLeo]

All the links for the tools are dead. Where should I look to find?

[NoMrBond]

Hoojiwana put up a dropbox link to the KSP Parttools

[LawnDartLeo]

TYVM!.... again.

[LawnDartLeo]

An infinite number of Kerbals working on an infinite number of computers scrapping an infinite number of Blender models given an infinite amount of time will sooner or later come up with the worst looking toroidal monopropellant tank you have ever seen......

I''m "geometrically happy" with the result but the texturing needs some creative intervention. My guess is that I need to learn how to effectively unwrap something and pick better colors.

In honor of No's help I think I'll call it the Model N-Zero Monopropellant tank with integrated control panel and Emergency stop button for those fateful moments of runaway RCS thrusters.

Edited October 10, 2013 by LawnDartLeo