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Flag Pack V.2

I like to role-play my game. I was going to start a new game as the 11th French Republic or the Star Kingdom of England or some sort of human faction loosely related to earth but all the flag feel strange or weird. So I made a bunch of flags. Some work very well, other are a little blurry in game.



Here are the worlds flags:





Eve Online flags:


Homeworld flags:


Star Trek flags:


Star Wars Flags:


Stargate flags:


And a few more:


To install:
Make them a theme: create a subfolder named flagshapes in your theme folder in customization (Distant Worlds\Customization\YOURTHEME\flagshapes). Put the flag you want to use, they replace original flags.

Or you can replace the original flag in the flagshapes folder. First back up the flag folder (Distant Worlds\images\ui\flagshapes) then replace the flag you want by renaming one of my flag and overwriting the original.
Ex: German Eagle -> flag3

All the flags are already in .wmf format so you don't have to convert them.

I have include a picture of the original flag, so you know what flag you are replacing.

Here is the new pack. I hope you like them.

Excellent job with this. I think I remember someone asking for this a long a while back.

I do have a question, what is the 2nd England Lion from? It looks alot more like a Scottish Lion Rampant, though I don't recognise the 3 crowns and it doesn't have a forked tail. The first English lion is definately an English lion, but I think there should be 3 of them.

Not criticizing, just a slight nitpick if you like and I could be completely wrong.[:)]

Great work!

Im a Brit, both of those Lions look like Richard 1 Royal coat of arms lions. Was that where you got them from?.

Kudos btw![:)]

Looks like you're right Hanny. Did a bit of googling.

It seems to me that King Richard I (the lionheart) dropped the single standing lion in favour of 3 lions walking and facing the observer. Then Scotlands Alexander II took up the Lion Rampant standard shortly after.

So basically, we pinched it while the English weren't using it![:D]

You Yanks will steal anything, first it was our colonies, then its our Empire.....[:D]

Richard has 3 lions, because Henry I the Lion of England in battle had one, he married and she had one, makeing two, his son therfore used 2, and married Elanaor of Aquitane who had another, that made 3, Richard was there son and used the family 3 lions.

I am impressed. Nice work!

When you say, StL, do you mean as in St. Louis?

Hi Matys and excelent work, I was just going through older threads and something like this was attempted before but not at this scale. Nicely done.

ORIGINAL: Hanny

You Yanks will steal anything, first it was our colonies, then its our Empire.....[:D]

Richard has 3 lions, because Henry I the Lion of England in battle had one, he married and she had one, makeing two, his son therfore used 2, and married Elanaor of Aquitane who had another, that made 3, Richard was there son and used the family 3 lions.

Very interesting indeed, Hanny. Thanks for that, however I'm not American. Sorry, though I mentioned that I'm Scottish. Live near Falkirk. I just like posting in the middle of the night![>:]

Good job Hanny, now we've learned another thing about Igard. Falkirk...is that where Kirk fell? [:)]

Very interesting indeed, Hanny. Thanks for that, however I'm not American. Sorry, though I mentioned that I'm Scottish. Live near Falkirk. I just like posting in the middle of the night![>:]

Ah my mistake.[:(]

Im on the Isle of wight, ( little island at the botton of the UK for none Uk readers) be hard to be any further from you!.[:)] and still be in the UK.

Been there when I was a wee lad. Can't remember much apart from being sick on the way home on the ferry.[:D]

ORIGINAL: Igard

I do have a question, what is the 2nd England Lion from? It looks alot more like a Scottish Lion Rampant, though I don't recognise the 3 crowns and it doesn't have a forked tail. The first English lion is definately an English lion, but I think there should be 3 of them.

I used only one Lion Rampant because it look better that way. With three Lions, the flag is very blurry and the lions are hard to see.

ORIGINAL: tjhkkr

When you say, StL, do you mean as in St. Louis?

Yes, it is St-Louis Fleur-de-Lys.


I have finished some new flag sets: Eve Online, Homeworld, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate and some other flag from various games. There are in the original post. The uploaded file is the new version.

4 Romulan flags!!!! 

Bless you sir! You're a true hero of the Empire!

Oh yes and the other flags are pretty cool also. Great job. This must've taken a while.

YOU ARE THE GREATEST MATYS[&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]

This flag collection is exactly what I wished for (maybe except the nazi falg.I did not wish for that..). It's like christmas already!

Nice flag set there, just wondering is there a hard limit on the number of flags allowed in the same way of shipsets?

@feygan

Yep, there's currently a hard limit on flags. Hopefully the next expansion will lift some of the hard caps for modding purposes. 

@Matys

Excellent stuff! Gotta browse through those and see which ones I will be using.

feygan, J HG T is correct, it's the same as shipsets, but there are plenty of flags to chop and change. There are 41, which is more than enough for me.

EDIT: 39 without the expansion.

having more than the races available for any game.....btw, what's the limit on that now? just realized I forgot this.

Thank you for your work! Very much!

ORIGINAL: Hanny

Im on the Isle of wight, ( little island at the botton of the UK for none Uk readers) be hard to be any further from you!.[:)] and still be in the UK.

You could live on the Falkland islands and be further, but indeed that would be harder...especially with the menacing Argentine threat next door. <--- Jest [;)]



In response to the flag set.....NICE WORK!!!

ORIGINAL: Igard

feygan, J HG T is correct, it's the same as shipsets, but there are plenty of flags to chop and change. There are 41, which is more than enough for me.

EDIT: 39 without the expansion.

Are you saying the in game flag limit is 39?