A universal reflectiveness overhaul powered by Textures Unlimited. Unlike TURD, which only covers a limited set of mods, Reforged tried to fix this by giving a consistent PBR look across ~62 mods (more can be added if needed). It also adds an in-game "Material Finish" selector, available through right click or the toolbar, so you can change any part's finish in the VAB/SPH or in flight.
Why I made this: I loved how shiny and reflective TURD makes parts, but it only covers its own list of supported mods. Digging around, I found Magpie Mods, which takes a similar, but FORCED approach: simple configs that give PBR to almost everything. I liked it for a while, but it wasn't quite the look I was after either, and it was annoying that I couldn't choose how it looked. So I built my own: Reforged Materials, a similar concept to Magpie, but also a lot of TURD at the same time. Universal coverage like Magpie, with finish and reflectiveness options like TURD. TURD still gives you finer control on the parts it supports, while Reforged is built for great results everywhere, and you can run both (or I think? need some feedback if not): on parts TURD covers, TURD simply takes over, and Reforged handles the rest (haven't tested it fully yet, but I'm confident it should work).
🎨 Material Finish switcher: right-click any supported part and pick a finish:
| Reforged (Default) | The part's normal Reforged look (spawn default / reset) | | Matte | Flat, no gloss | | Semi-Gloss | Soft low sheen | | Satin | Smooth sheen | | Brushed Metal | Industrial brushed steel | | Metallic Paint | Glossy metal-flake car paint | | Chrome (Mirror) | Full mirror chrome | | Default Rocket / Default Plane | Put the classic rocket look on a plane, or the plane look on a rocket |
IMPORTANT NOTE, that reflectiveness can look stronger and lighter in editor than in flight
🖌️ Reforged Painter: a toolbar window (editor + flight) that paints the whole vessel in one click, with an Auto button (every part gets its type's correct default) and a spot-paint mode (hover a part and press P; includes symmetry twins).
🌈 SimpleRepaint integration (optional): with SimpleRepaint installed, the painter gets a Colour tab for whole-vessel recoloring, plus four extra bright swatches. Finishes never touch color, so the two mods fully coexist.
No gameplay changes: zero effect on mass, cost, drag, or resources.
Stock + both DLCs, ReStock+, all of Nertea's mods (Near Future suite, Far Future, Cryo Engines & Tanks, Kerbal Atomics, Station Parts Redux, Heat Control...), Bluedog Design Bureau, Tantares (all), Airplane Plus, KW Rocketry, SpaceY, Mk2/Mk3 Expansion, OPT, Benjee10's mods (SOCK, Orion/ACK, HabTech2, MMSEV), Tundra Exploration, Kerbal Planetary Base Systems, Cormorant Aeronology, Knes, and many more (full list in the README).
Solar panels, lights, glass, parachutes, fairings, wheels and landing gear are deliberately left alone to avoid the texture bugs those parts can get.
GPL-3.0. The material configs were made by me, J4C0B, building on the Reforged rework of the Textures Unlimited Default Stock Config (credits to u/ilikeduck3, hendrack, Challyss and Mabdhi36; their readme is preserved in the package) and including a few patches from Magpie Mods / Magpie Mods Remodded (GPL-3.0). Full attribution in the bundled NOTICE.md. The Material Finish switcher, the Reforged Painter plugin (source included) and all integration work are by me.
If you'd like to support my work, you can donate. This is my first ever "actual" mod and it took a few weeks of work, so anything is hugely appreciated.
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