Single mesh. More than one material.

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Well, I either have a normal problem or this is not possible. I have been working on a nice large carrier hull because I am tired of FPS drops and having to build them with hundreds of panels. Apparently the inside of the model is always missing no matter which way I flip the normals. I have just noticed that out of habit I have made the inside a separate material. I am going to try to separate the inside mesh form the outside and see if that helps.

Feels kind of crazy to have a problem like this after my animation worked flawlessly on the first attempt and everything else is generally going to plan.

I also have a question about how to get the part context menu in the VAB like on the new landing legs. That way The cargo bay doors can be opened in the VAB. I have done pretty well just reading all the info required to do pretty much anything I need to be able to do. But the documentation on this seems to be unavailable.

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Oh yea, that was definitely the problem. Separated out the mesh and it works just fine now.

So you have a choice to use all of the same materials on a single mesh or to separate the mesh and use more than one material. This kinds sucks though. I generally generate procedural textures using a lot of material trickery and then bake them. I guess I can still so that I just need to be sure to leave most of that for last after the model has been processed in Unity.

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Are you just looking for a way to have textures on both sides of the mesh? You can just select everything that you want two-sided, duplicate it, and switch the normals on one set. I don't know about putting multiple materials on that same mesh, but you'll at least have textures on both sides.

As for the VAB thing, you need a plugin with an [KSPEvent(guiactiveeditor = true, .....)]. That's what gives you the ability to right click on something in the VAB. I'm not sure about making it permanent (like launching with landing legs extended). I think maybe you need to set some persistent KSP field that's triggered by the VAB command, then check that when you launch.

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Are you just looking for a way to have textures on both sides of the mesh? You can just select everything that you want two-sided, duplicate it, and switch the normals on one set. I don't know about putting multiple materials on that same mesh, but you'll at least have textures on both sides.

As for the VAB thing, you need a plugin with an [KSPEvent(guiactiveeditor = true, .....)]. That's what gives you the ability to right click on something in the VAB. I'm not sure about making it permanent (like launching with landing legs extended). I think maybe you need to set some persistent KSP field that's triggered by the VAB command, then check that when you launch.

No I was trying to use a separate texture sheet on the inside of the mesh. There are no problems with normals. I set the inside of the mesh to have a separate material than the outside. I just had to separate the two parts. No problems all is well.

Clearly there is a way to setup VAB toggles without a plugin. The stock parts do it. I was just asking if anyone knows how to do that. I would like to be able to open the bay doors in the VAB. You can just clip inside and place anything you want inside with no problems but I would still like the option.

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Clearly there is a way to setup VAB toggles without a plugin. The stock parts do it. I was just asking if anyone knows how to do that. I would like to be able to open the bay doors in the VAB. You can just clip inside and place anything you want inside with no problems but I would still like the option.

The stock parts do it, but as far as I know it's only the ones with custom modules. I don't think anything using the ModuleAnimateGeneric can do it. So I don't think there's anything in the .cfg file for say, the landing legs, that specifies VAB editor options.