How to edit "gas_giant_rings_01.mesh"?

[Mitchz95]

Hi all,

I want to mod more planetary ring textures into the game, but I can't seem to open the appropriate file (named in the title) with any text-editing applications. Even Notepad++ seems to get confused when I try -- it just displays random code and lettering.

How might I open the file in an intelligible way for editing?

 

[K-vald]

We currently don't have any official way of opening and editing .mesh files, but there are a couple of fan-made exporters on the mod tool forum.

If you don't want to use a 3D application to edit it you can also change textures straight in the pdxmesh/entity files as well. If you open _planetary_entities.asset (gfx/models/planets) you can find an entity at the top named "gas_giant_rings_01_entity" using "gas_giant_rings_01_mesh". If you look at several other planets in the same file you might notice some of them has an attribute called "meshsettings". If you use this attribute and add "texture_diffuse = my_diffuse.dds" inside the brackets it will overwrite all diffuse textures in the .mesh file with the new texture. Same goes for normal and specular textures.

Here is the whole thing:

meshsettings = {
    texture_diffuse = "my_diffuse.dds"
    texture_normal = "my_normal.dds"
    texture_specular = "my_spec.dds"
    }