Custom Flag in Kerbal?

[Eyekonn]

Hello fellow Kerbinauts!

I was curious if there was a way to make a custom flag in ksp? or any program/addon that would enable you to make one.

Thank you!

[Amaroq]

Yes. Welcome to KSP

The flag is a simple .PNG, 256 x 160 pixels in size. If you're looking for a good paint program, I suggest the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, GIMP, which you can learn more about at http://www.gimp.org/. Its pretty easy to get started with.

Note that you can open your screen shots in GIMP, and either resize them or crop them to get "in game" assets for your flag.

Once you have a flag, make a directory in your game folder like:

/Program Files/KSP/GameData/Eyekonn/Flags

and put your flag .PNG into that folder. You'll be set!

[Claw]

Also, make sure your file name doesn't have any spaces in it. KSP parses text in the save files, so I noticed if there is a space in the flag file name, KSP doesn't read it correctly from the SFS file.

[Vanamonde]

It doesn't take anything fancy to make them, either. I just do mine in MS Paint.

[Claw]

It doesn't take anything fancy to make them, either. I just do mine in MS Paint.

Yeah, very true. I have an incredibly old version of Paint Shop Pro that I'm still very attached to.

[Teza]

Yes! I was looking into this myself not so long ago, I went on youtube and found a couple of easy vids that show you how this is done. I found the ones that use ms paint to be the easiest to follow, you are only resizing an image and saving it as a .png file. Now the fun bit is you can search for any image you want in google images and turn it into a flag!