Customize in MekLab

Were your troubles occurring with all units or just some? The immediate thing that occurs to me is there are a few unit types, like protomechs and support vehicles, that aren't support by the version of meklab that we are using and they can't be customised within MekHQ.

I haven't had any trouble lately, but if you do have a previous version of MegaMek try creating it there and opening the save file with the newer version.

I just tested some units and found most types loaded for customisation without any issues - tanks, wiges, vtols, conventional fighters, aerospace fighters, conventional infantry, battle armour, small craft and dropships were all fine.

However the half dozen standard battlemechs and omnimechs I tried all refused to load for customisation. But strangely the Omega superheavy battlemech could be customised.

^This is higher level brain thinking right here.

We refer to them as Sprites.

Go into the MekHQ\data\images\units folder and look for localclient_mechset.txt and localserver_mechset.txt

Open those with a good text editor (I use Notepad++)

There are directions in the top of the files.

When do it should look like this and should be in both files.

chassis "Your Custom Warships Chassis Name" "warships/My Image.png"

chassis "Choppy Boy" "mechs/Choppy Boy.png"

Names are case sensitive and we recommend the images are in png format.

If you want to make your own sprites see here - github.com/MegaMek/megamek/wiki/How-to-draw-MegaMek-Icons-the-Deadborder-way

Its a fantastic tutorial that DeadBorder made.

One final step. Go into data\mechfiles and delete the file units.cache and restart MM. It will rebuild unit directory and your sprites should be showing.

I think you would have to add the custom sprite and make them go through this process also.