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Sirian's EVE Component Mod (new version 1.1) - 12/18/2012 10:32:13 AM   
Sirian

 

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Status: offline 		Hello!

Here comes my second mod, this time its the components. I used EVE icons to replace most of the components, firswt I wanted to increase the size of the icons to 64x64 pixels and have them transparent, everything worked fine until I actually researched something. The icons get enlarged inthe messagebox and so ruin everything. So back to 32x32 pixels. After some experimenting I discarded the idea of transparent icons and put a grey background in. This way they look far better than transparent, so I kept them.

V1.1: This is a refinesd version based on my experiences while using the mod in actual games. I shuffled a few icons around, mainly beam weapons, as I didn't like the titan beam icon as titan beam icon. I also changed some color coding to make is more intuitive. Also added help files using the modded icons. (Oh I do love my helpfile compiler...)

Components are color coded where applicable:

Quality: Grey - Green - Blue - Purple. Sone items have distinct tiers, like armor or troop compartments. These tiers are color coded where possible. If only two tiers exist they are green - blue, three tiers are green - blue - purple and four tiers add a grey as least quality color.

Fleet components: components that boost nearby ships have a yellow background

Race exclusive items have a cyan background

Reactors: red background: uses hydrogen, purple background: uses Caslon

Shields, Engines and Hyperdrives have a different color coding: the basic varaint is grey (or blueish gray in case of the shields) Green is efficient, Red is fast (or fast recharging) and purple is the final super-technology.

Superweapons have a bright orange background, except for the Superlaser which has... oh well, you will recognize it!

Installing the mod: extract the contents of the zip file into the Distant Worlds/images/ui/components directory. Do not forget to backup any original contents there first!

All versions and the helpfiles can be downloaded here: Sirian's EVE Component mod

Have fun!
Sirian

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 12/18/2012 10:34:49 AM   
Sirian

 

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Status: offline 		Here is a preview. Sadly the preview does not do the icons justice, they are of far better quality. This has to do with resizing issues in the file browser.



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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 12/18/2012 1:05:41 PM   
Tyrador


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Status: offline 		Some great work on display here, these icons are so cool! Much better than default!

BTW. What about the super weapon icons?

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 12/18/2012 1:29:41 PM   
Sirian

 

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Status: offline 		Death Ray icons are 23 and 25. I fthere are more super weapons I have missed them. I must admit, I haven't played the game as much as I spend time modding. :-)

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 12/19/2012 2:55:11 AM   
Ponicus

 

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Status: offline 		Awesome. Thanks for this mod. Enjoying this and your resource icon mod.

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 12/21/2012 4:20:12 PM   
tjhkkr


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Status: offline 		Nice piece of work; thank you!

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 2/15/2013 9:52:22 AM   
Sirian

 

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Status: offline 		Added version 1.1, see first post.

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Visit Sirian's Mods

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 2/15/2013 10:52:03 AM   
Igard


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Status: offline 		Really nice looking components here. The colour coding is a great touch!

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RE: Sirian's EVE Component Mod - 2/16/2013 10:10:16 PM   
Buio


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Status: online 		Very nice update v1.1

Thanks a lot!

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