Shared texture?

[Dr. Jet]

Is it possible to share the same single texture between several parts? I mean a single texture in memory and DIFFERENT models using it.

Right now I'm working on new parts. Just put part1.mu, part2.mu and texture.png is one folder and hope that both mu's will use it. Mu's are different shapes (not just resizes), texture is the same for both.

But it doesn't work like that. KSP somehow only uses part1.mu for displaying BOTH parts ingame, even though part2.mu was strictly written in part2.cfg. Separating files into different folder solves this issue, but it needs another copy of texture.png, what I was trying to avoid.

P.S. Yeah, I know, textures are not that big... generally... but why to spend memory on unneeded copies?

P.P.S. Greed is a virtue... sometimes...

[nli2work]

yes, textures generally the most memory expensive asset; always best to share across different parts if possible.

use this in the part config instead of mesh = blahblah.mu

MODEL{
model = GameData/your/part/path/part (no mu extension)
texture = texture1, GameData/your/textures/location/texture1
repeat texture lines as necessary.
scale = x,y,z
rotation = x,y,z
position = x,y,z
}

[Dr. Jet]

Yeah. MODEL{} is treated differently and seems to be a proper workaround. Thank you.

[nli2work]

MODEL{} is updated node system. it should be used in place of the old mesh = and texture = lines

[NathanKell]

Assuming you use MODEL and just specify the model, you don't need to use texture=, you can just have the models reference the same texture themselves.

See how FASA does it for an example.