Graphics mod

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I've been getting to grips with the game, and I'm really enjoying it. There's so much clever stuff here, and it's being rapidly hammered into shape.

My one problem is the ship art for the tactical view. To me, they all look the same- Evuck, Acutian, whatever, they're all dark chunky blocks with tron lines. I know there are some visual distinctions between the races, but I really want them to be more striking. I'm going to start making some replacement designs for my own satisfaction. Is this feasible? Looking through the files, the images seem easy enough to replace. Static emplacements and a few other things seem to be shared between races, which is fine, but is there any reason I can't arrange for every race to have their own distinctive fleet?

[x4000]

Well, you can replace existing images, so long as you don't change the number of frames in an animation or the size of an image, but adding new images isn't something that the game supports, so having race-specific fleets wouldn't really work out.

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Thanks for the reply, I see how it works now. Had a proper look through the files- I didn't realise the general flagships were one-type-fits-all. Seems a bit of a shame to give varied races their own governments, psychologies etc, but identical vessels! No worries, I'll see how the game develops.

[x4000]

Later on in the game, they all get unique flagships, but they have to take about 9 years to develop them.

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I might just make their unique flagships a bit more so, and keep a shared look for the 'first generation' craft.

[x4000]

Sure, absolutely.  I could see that making good sense.