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Some of the ships ingame. There's no colonyship, scoutship nor smaller freighters in the picture, couldn't find anything I could copy paste in the same screenshot..

I'm probably going to give them little racing stripes too to identify ship classes better (civilian ships with different color than military and non-warships in different?)

NOTE: The starbase is from the original set I'm 'replacing'

I don't know why some of the bigger ships look so blurred when they should be big enough as picture Got same problem with colonyship, its completely blurred, but its same size as the rest... dunno how to fix it

edit: Also I have to 'scale' bigger ships someway to give them more size variance :>

They're looking very good Deto...

How about serial numbers for the ship classes? Might make them easier to ID.

ORIGINAL: Tycow

They're looking very good Deto...

How about serial numbers for the ship classes? Might make them easier to ID.

Thanks

Serial numbers? Might not be very visible if I added those on them.. unless the font size is galactic

The trouble for me with most of the sci fi space games Ive seen...is they always have cartoony super colouful spaceships....always puts me off as soon as I see them.....I do however like the look of this mod...they look the right colour....they look like they spend long time in space not something that a graffeti artist has had ago at...the more realisitic looking the better....though to me at the moment it would be hard to tell the different types apart at a quick glance...not sure how you fix that and still keep them looking realistic.

Just taking another look maybe they could have different coloured lights instaed of all of them having red lights?

ORIGINAL: Deto

ORIGINAL: Tycow

They're looking very good Deto...

How about serial numbers for the ship classes? Might make them easier to ID.

Thanks

Serial numbers? Might not be very visible if I added those on them.. unless the font size is galactic

True, but they don't have to be large serial numbers. It could be three letters, like CVF, DES, FRG etc!

Looking great, Deto!

Not telling you how to do your stuff but have you considered 2 different color schemes for military versus civilian ships?

Say Military stay with the standard gunship grey base color, and have the civilian ships have something like a white and blue color scheme...would make them much more easy to identify.

ORIGINAL: wodin

The trouble for me with most of the sci fi space games Ive seen...is they always have cartoony super colouful spaceships....always puts me off as soon as I see them.....I do however like the look of this mod...they look the right colour....they look like they spend long time in space not something that a graffeti artist has had ago at...the more realisitic looking the better....though to me at the moment it would be hard to tell the different types apart at a quick glance...not sure how you fix that and still keep them looking realistic.

Just taking another look maybe they could have different coloured lights instaed of all of them having red lights?

Saddly the light color comes from 'code', so if you choose blue as your empire color, then the lights are blue too. Otherwise it would have been nice thing I have to try if I can somehow 'control' the size of the ships by scaling the art smaller in parts. When I get more ships done, I'll try it out too.

ORIGINAL: Shark7

Not telling you how to do your stuff but have you considered 2 different color schemes for military versus civilian ships?

Say Military stay with the standard gunship grey base color, and have the civilian ships have something like a white and blue color scheme...would make them much more easy to identify.

Oh, critic is very welcome and its a good idea. I had similiar in mind, but its probably better to tag all civilians to certain look and all warships to another, and still give the player option to some color schemes on 'special' builds

Very nice Deto! A vast improvement over most of the stock ships.

I for one cannot wait to download.

I think they suit being the humans ships better than the vanilla ones.Nice.

Nice done.
I when I say nice this mean very good.
Also I support Shark7 idea.

Two galaxy replacements what I use currently, I use the red one. They're darker and 1,5x higher res than the original set... and hardly packed at all, so it could be kinda heavy on old machines. The originals felt a little bit blurry and low res to me and also a little bit too bright to distinct the stars good enough.  And Thanks to Nasa for images and photoshop for killing everything Hubble has taken time to photograph

Use the 'text' links to download, the small images are just to show what they're like


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/238567/dw/galaxy_backdrop.jpg


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/238567/dw/galaxy_backdrop2.jpg

ORIGINAL: Deto

Two galaxy replacements what I use currently, I use the red one. They're darker and 1,5x higher res than the original set... and hardly packed at all, so it could be kinda heavy on old machines. The originals felt a little bit blurry and low res to me and also a little bit too bright to distinct the stars good enough.  And Thanks to Nasa for images and photoshop for killing everything Hubble has taken time to photograph

Use the 'text' links to download, the small images are just to show what they're like


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/238567/dw/galaxy_backdrop.jpg


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/238567/dw/galaxy_backdrop2.jpg

So, how did you go about editing the new map into the game?

ORIGINAL: Shark7

ORIGINAL: Deto

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So, how did you go about editing the new map into the game?

I'm lazy and I just replaced ...Distant Worlds\images\environment\galaxybackdrops\galaxy_backdrop.jpg with whatever I wish to use at given time I don't know how to choose which map to use, so I removed others

edit: Oh! about! I just went crazy with bunch of layers of different looking galaxies and nebulas and just did some color tweaks and layer effects

I was hoping for a mod that added ships that were less phallic [;)]

Well... They do penetrate space.

lol you had to see that coming, so any word?

No further word, other than every empire needs phallic super weapon to dominate the stars! ;D

I think the ships should scale the same as those in the game,or it will just look like the race has bigger classed ships which ruins immersion.