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About this mod
Grandsome's Better Icons; Based on MoistDreams' Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack.
For better ship class differentiation with both on Vanilla and VRO.
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UPDATED FOR 7.0
Grandsome's Better Icons; Based on MoistDreams Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack.
For better ship class differentiation with both Vanilla and VRO.
(Aka its elsoworld evil twin mod)
*For those who realized that even tough XR ship icons look better, they're basically unreadable at some resolutions. ;-)
Design Philosophy:
Aesthetically, the default X4 icons are a step-down from X: Rebirth, yet they are far superior when it comes to readability.
I tried to follow the design language of the original icons, that means:
Following that principle, I decided for the new VRO ship class that:
Supports:
X4 Foundations 6.20 with Split, CoH, ToA, KE DLC.
Vanilla Mod Supports:
VRO Mod Support:
Changes I made:
General:
I increased all the icon sizes for better readability.
M-class icons were added now the default one stands for corvette only.
The other classes can be found in accompanying article.
Xenon:
All Xenon units have their own distinct icons, these icons are the regular icon but with an "X" pattern on top of them.
Xenon K destroyer icon is now a new XL-Destroyer icon.
Xenon I icon is now a XL-Battleship icon, since the thing never behaved as a carrier.
Khaak:
All Khaak have their own distinct icon in the form of the regular icons but with a huge triangle subtracted at the centre.
The thin line contour display a scanline effect at some resolutions. It's a bug and a feature.
Commonwealth:
All light carriers now display the new L-Carrier icon.
All m-class ship that can dock s-class ship now display the M-Carrier icon
Terran:
Syn now displays the new XXL-Carrier icon.
The rest of the changes follow MoistDreams Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack. Changes.
Shout out to them.
Unused icons included:
Don't hesitate to include these assets to your mods, just send me a notification DM and credit me, thank you.
Steam Version
Grandsome's Better Icons; Based on MoistDreams Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack.
For better ship class differentiation with both Vanilla and VRO.
(Aka its elsoworld evil twin mod)
Design Philosophy:
Aesthetically, the default X4 icons are a step-down from X: Rebirth, yet they are far superior when it comes to readability.
I tried to follow the design language of the original icons, that means:
- Triangle means combat.
- Square means civilian.
- Circle neutral or unknown.
- Size is denoted by the ranking bar under the main icon.
Following that principle, I decided for the new VRO ship class that:
- An inverted triangle on top of a base icon meant that the ship was of a heavier weapon class from its similarly sized siblings.
- A circle added to a base icon would denote a lighter, or faster class of a given size.
- Vertical lines were also added to make the icons more readable or distinct.
Supports:
X4 Foundations 6.20 with Split, CoH, ToA, KE DLC.
Vanilla Mod Supports:
- XR ShipPack - Nexus / Steam
- DeadAir Factions + DeadAirShips Support - GitHub
- Lint5's Paranid Guardian - Nexus / Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion - Nexus / Steam
- VRO Cruisers Submod - Steam
- Ragnarok - Steam
- Yaki Hoshi Carrier - Steam
- Heavy Combat Drone - Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack - Nexus / Steam
- X3 ATF/USC Ship Pack - Steam
- Terran Cruisers - Steam
- Experimental Cruisers - Steam
- Argon Cyclops - Steam
- Splitweapons (Varan Battleship) - Steam
- Ophidia - Steam
- Constrictor - Steam
- Split Battleship - Steam
- Split flagship - Steam
- Triton Heavy Frigate - Steam
- Rise of Ossian Raider (Thanks to user: Silencer) - Steam
- Argon Cyclops - Deluxe Edition - Nexus / Steam
- Argon Titan - Nexus
- Regal Barracuda - Nexus
- Pirate Witherborn - Nexus
VRO Mod Support:
- VRO - Nexus / Steam
- XR ShipPack - Nexus / Steam
- XR ShipPack VRO - Nexus / Steam
- Split Tiger - XL Battleship (VRO) - Nexus / Steam
- DeadAir Factions + DeadAirShips Support - GitHub
- Lint5's Paranid Guardian - Nexus / Steam
- Lint5's Paranid Guardians VRO - Nexus / Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion - Nexus / Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion VRO - Nexus / Steam
- VRO Cruisers Submod - Steam
- Ragnarok (VRO) - Steam
- Yaki Hoshi Carrier - Steam
- Heavy Combat Drone VRO - Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack - Nexus / Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack VRO Patch - Nexus / Steam
- X3 ATF/USC Ship Pack (VRO) - Steam
- Armed merchant cruisers for VRO - Steam
- Rise of Ossian Raider VRO (Thanks to user: Silencer) - Steam
- OTAS Shippack 1.0 - Nexus
Changes I made:
General:
I increased all the icon sizes for better readability.
M-class icons were added now the default one stands for corvette only.
The other classes can be found in accompanying article.
Xenon:
All Xenon units have their own distinct icons, these icons are the regular icon but with an "X" pattern on top of them.
Xenon K destroyer icon is now a new XL-Destroyer icon.
Xenon I icon is now a XL-Battleship icon, since the thing never behaved as a carrier.
Khaak:
All Khaak have their own distinct icon in the form of the regular icons but with a huge triangle subtracted at the centre.
The thin line contour display a scanline effect at some resolutions. It's a bug and a feature.
Commonwealth:
All light carriers now display the new L-Carrier icon.
All m-class ship that can dock s-class ship now display the M-Carrier icon
Terran:
Syn now displays the new XXL-Carrier icon.
The rest of the changes follow MoistDreams Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack. Changes.
Shout out to them.
Unused icons included:
- S-bomber
- L-Battlecruiser
- L-Battleship
- Khaak Heavy Fighter
Don't hesitate to include these assets to your mods, just send me a notification DM and credit me, thank you.
Steam Version