Since you are looking on how to create custom textures for Planet Explorers, I'm assuming you are already familiar with the editor and I don't have to go into detail explaining how the tools work.

To start up creating your custom texture, select the Material tab on the left side of the editor UI and double click the "Create New Material". This will open a new window where you can set the parameters for your new texture.


After you have named your new material, you can then select what base material (that can be found in game) it uses. In the picture I have named this new texture as "Armor Pattern" and selected iron as required material, since it feels like a realistic choice.

You can of course grab a nice texture, select wood as required matter since it's the easiest and fastest one to get. It's also very light and fits well for many building projects.

Custom textures require a 128x128 pixel pattern that is seamlessly looping in horizontal and vertical direction, so that it looks natural and the texture doesn't have edges once you create a building block.

If you want your creation to have a bigger/smaller texture pattern, you can scale it up and down from the Tile section in New Material window.



Remember to copy/paste the texture link into bottom part (diffuse & bump) of the window. This will guide the editor into correct file and if the link is correct, it will immediately show you the new texture in the New Material window.

Example: You have created a new texture fie into 128x128 pixel dimension, saved it into desktop as a .PNG-file (required file format). The link you paste into diffuse / bump part should look something like this: C:\Users\Your Username\Desktop\Armor Pattern.PNG

After you have created a bunch of new textures in your Materials tab at editor, there is this one annoying bug that you might want to be aware.

The amount of new custom textures might "push" the Create New Material-button on top of your select tool and brush tool, making it bit awkward to click them. It can be done however with careful aiming.

It's not a game breaking issue, but in the long run this is a little bit annoying and slowing you down and I've reported this bug to Pathea earlier. Let's hope they fix it soon.

Once you have created a bunch of nice textures and feel like sharing them with your friends, or just want to backup them, you can find all your Planet Explorer textures in following folder:
C:\Users\Your Username\Documents\PlanetExplorers\VoxelCreationData\Materials

The files are in .vcmat-format and include all your custom textures AND the few pre made textures everyone has at start.

Here are some of my custom textures in use. Now, I'm not nearly as good builder as I've seen many of you are, but I'm still having fun!

Here are the textures I have created so far. I'm sharing both

• 128x128px texture files in .PNG-format, if you feel like creating the custom textures yourself, or just experiment with them. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XgXhDWMJuVUujIyLW43oSD_3T8SqvCkD

AND

• Ready material files that you just unzip into path documents/PlanetExplorers/VoxelCreationData/Materials - you should already have few .vcmat-files in this folder. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GZet2vd6YSON1LfT1J4jq38nqzjirZ0J

Hope this will get your creative juices flowing!