Need to find a way to 'clean up' all the various tank, nose, and adapter textures to use a more unified set of base textures. Few of these parts use any sort of detailing, it is mostly flat texture + noise + AO + specular; nearly perfect for texture-sheet re-use.

The goal of this change would be to reduce the number of textures needed/shipped with the mod, and to use a unified set of colors/masks across all parts. So gray on a tank will be the same as gray on a nosecone, will be the same as gray on a mount.

MFT Tanks - Nosecones - Adapters

• Might require making up one or more normal maps for some of the adapters -- some have paneling or stringer lines; most also use some masking to hide the seams in the diff, spec, and nrm textures -- can they be unwrapped in such a way that the masking is not needed (while still allowing for using straight lines on the texture sheets)?
• How to handle the adapters/nosecones/etc that have striped variants -- how could these be mapped onto the existing tank textures?
• Will obviously still require having multiple AO masks, one for each main line of parts (one for each tank variant, one for nosecones, one for adapters).
• Looks to be impossible to unwrap the adapters in such a way as so that they can use a common texture. Any method that allows common texture use will either end up with massive distortion (no-go), or seams on every face (again, no-go).
• Can the MFT-D and L textures be mapped onto the same texture sheet?

Mounts (engines, tanks)

Slightly more problematic with their model setups, but might still be able to use the same base texture sheets as the tanks, with some minor additions.

• Mounting detail ring -- the mounts mostly come with a ring of greeble on them.

Removal of multi-adapter mount selections

• They don't get used and the texture mapping on them was highly problematic. 3/4 of the adapter texture sheet was just for these multi-adapters.

Nope, this would not be touching the HAB parts (except for their adapters).

The goal for this...project... is to eliminate 3/4 of the adapter/nosecone textures and allow them to re-use the texture sheet from the tanks themselves. Basically just a reduction in how many textures I need to manage, as well as ensuring that all of the adapters and tanks are color-matched.

Sadly I am unable to find a way to unwrap a cone-shaped-mesh that allows for texture re-use. They need the ability to have normal mapping, and any attempts to re-use the same texture/UV area result in major texture distortion. So, not sure how far this project/idea will be progressing (probably won't be progressing at all if the one thing needed for it to work turns out to be impossible -- the UV mapping).

Does this include the hab stuff? Seems like the orange for inflatables should instead be gold foil, for example:

Looks like this is being done through #432.