Ned help creating MBM textures

[fenderzilla]

I'm working on making a mod with my own parts and textures. just for practice, i tried to retexture a stock part to see how textures worked. the part I used was the small RCS fuel tank. I used http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/mbm-to-png-file-converter/ for converting the .mbm files to .png files. the .readme in the download told me to edit the model.mu, at the bottom, where it says to use "model000.mbm" and "model001.mbm" and chage it to saying .png. I tried this, loaded the game, and the RCS tanks was gone. poof. it wasn't in the game anymore.

"Well, that's annoying," I said. "I guess it's not a big deal, I can just make PNGs and convert the m to MBMs for the game." Nope. no matter what I tried, there was no program that could convert PNGs into MBMs that worked for the game. every time i tried, the RCS tank would just show up completely white.

please help? how can I get the game to accept PNGs? or even convert PNGs back into MBMs?

[Faark]

Try to just name your texture model000.png, remove the mbm's and load the game. The current texture management within KSP barely uses file extensions any more, so it will work regardless of what file extension is stated in the MU file. Extensions in there likely only exist for backward compatibility.

Afaik, MBM is a proprietary file format created for KSP. A small header + uncompressed rgba32/rgb24 data. It's crap and you shouldn't use it, but can find details about it in for example this source: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/47068-mbm-Texture-File-Converter

[fenderzilla]

thanks! that worked!