[Vanilla-Improvement] Zenox & Ketarov bases!

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Baleur
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[Vanilla-Improvement] Zenox & Ketarov bases!

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Well, in general i actually love the vanilla shipsets. I think they are fairly varied and consistent with the feel and theme of the game.
HOWEVER, one thing that ALWAYS bothered me so extremely much was the Zenox / Ketarov bases (starbases and the refuel ships in that shipfamily share the same image!).

They look so wierd and almost fluffy, totally out of character, doesnt mix well at all with even the rest of their own ships!
So after weeks of never playing zenox because of this (no joke), i decided to change it, it was easier than i thought! [:)]
They only have 2 different ones, one for large starports and 3 identical for the small & medium starport, defence bases and refuel ships.


Vanilla Zenox large starport & defence base.
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My tweaked (fixed?[:'(]) Zenox large starport & defence base.
Image


So what did i do?
Simple, a 50% warm photo filter, duplicated the layer with soft light blending, then selected the base itself and applied a mild bas relief, merge layers and done [:)]

I'd just plop the images here but for some reason tinypic decides to convert them to .jpg and imageshack decides to convert them to .png.
I'm sure they'd work as well but just to be sure i .rar'd them up for ya instead.
http://www.filefront.com/17256436/zenox_tweaked.rar
Extract to Customization/Modname/shipImages and ENJOY! [:)]

I also recommend my Added / Fixed Lights improvement [:)]
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