wanna make a mod

[jake9039]

so, I want to make a mod, that has fairings,engines, and couplers. how would I make the mod? and the textures? any recomendations for someone with zero experience?

[nli2work]

zero experience... as in no 3D, no Texturing, no Unity experience? or zero experience as in know some 3d/texture; just never made anything for KSP?

if latter: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/94638-New-Mod-Development-Links-Compilation

if former I suggest starting with some basic 3D tutorials with blender and put modding off for a while.

Edited December 11, 2014 by nli2work

[jake9039]

very,very,very little experience in 3d(except some experience in Google sketch-up),absolutely none in Texturing (plan on plain white parts) don't got any unity experience except playing ksp, adding mods, and online games.

[nli2work]

I suggest taking some time to get familiar with Blender making some simple KSP parts like fuel tanks and probe cores. the link above have all the information you need.

[frizzank]

Its not a simple process. Its like if someone said, I would like to build a house and I dont have any tools or experience. I have lived in a house how hard can it be.

So your first step should be build a really small house with simple tools.

I suggest you just make a small simple fuel tank first and get that in the game to start with.

If you start off trying to make a Star Destroyer or an exact replica of ISS, you will be overwhelmed very quickly and end up hating it.

Free, open source image editing software, kind of like Photoshop.

http://www.gimp.org/

Also I highly recommenced actually downloading Photoshop CS2. It is now offered for free from Adobe.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-get-photoshop-for-free/

Blender another free open source modeling program

http://www.blender.org/

Again I highly recommend learning a professional product either 3Ds Max or Maya

Max and maya both have a version that is free for students.

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/3ds-max

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya

And of course Unity, basic version is free and good enough for modding KSP.

http://unity3d.com/unity/download

A guide for various tutorials in KSP and part tools.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/94638-New-Mod-Development-Links-Compilation

Edited December 11, 2014 by frizzank