Better Ship Icons
Ever got bored of the vanilla ship icons? Fear not, for I, a professional graphics designer random dude, have come to rescue you!
This mod features 108 new sprites (52 akshually) of all the ships and their classes! Some of the classes have been completely re-visualized, for example, the fleet uses military chevrons instead of stars to indicate fleetpower. Why? Because simple stars are boring, duh. However it shouldn’t mess with your memory.
All of the sprites were done using CorelDRAW. They were then resized accordingly in Photoshop, and then put into the game using PaintNET
Several sprites were taken from copyright-free websites
- Unknown vessels – Question mark (Departura bold italics)
- Fleet power 1 – US Army Private chevron
- Fleet power 2 – US Army Private chevron x2
- Fleet power 3 – US Army Private chevron x3
- Fleet power 4 – US Army Private chevron x3 flipped
- Fleet power 5 – US Army Private chevron x3 flipped + normal chevron on top
- Fleet power 6 – US Army Private chevron x3 flipped + star
- Fleet power 7 – US Army Private chevron x3 flipped + star + normal chevron on top
- Science vessels – Flask
- Construction ships – Two wrenches
- Army ships – Military helmet (what the hell does vanilla even represent)
- Colony ships – A flag
- Spaceborne aliens – A stylized alien
- Collosi or Guardians – Skull and bones
- Juggernaut – 6-point star with a hole
For additional comparison, check out the mod’s images up above ☝
- Get rid of leftover sprite "jiggling" Done in 1.1
- Actually resize the sprites so they’re more HD-ish instead of being 2×2 or something (??)
- Redesign the spaceborne aliens icon, since it looks atrocious Done in 1.1
The mod should be compatible with any other mod that does not override the following files:
gfx/interface/icons/ship_icons_type.dds
gfx/interface/icons/ship_overlay_icons.dds
gfx/interface/icons/ship_icons_mixed_type.dds
gfx/interface/icons/ship_icons_cloaked_type.dds
If you detect any issues or visual bugs, please do notify me, I’m still a newcomer to this modding scene 🙂
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
