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The BattleMoon pic is placed in the generic/default race folder, so any race that does not have a battlemoon pic will use the one I copied. (Large, smoothish vaccuum-rock planet with the mean looking crater on it)
Any race that includes their own battlemoon pic will use their personal one by default. Also, any race style that includes a battlemoon pic should be fully compatible with any other mod.
That must be made a rule for any new vehicle size that uses a new picture. Even if you make a custom picture for every shipset and neutral players are not likely to use this size, the picture in the RaceGeneric dir is indispensable because it will be used by any new shipset you add.
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These extra images *can* be implemented without hardcode changes if modders are prepared to support them, and this is the beginning of my campaign to make it happen.
The main problems with new sizes are first that some AI may not be prepared to use some of the new sizes (for example I had to add a new item in all designcreation files to make my infantry work) and will be in disadvantage, and second the lack of new pictures for shipsets not specifically prepared. That will force you to use only pics in the RaceGeneric dir or use the same pic of other shipsize. There is a third alternative that is copying and renaming one of the default sizes to make the new size picture (IIRC some people did this to make the baseship use a different picture from the starbase, if you look around you'll find some shipsets include a baseship picture), but of course that if you have many shipsets and many new sizes this would be too much work and having two identical files with different names in every directory looks like a waste of hardrive space, and will make the "more vehicle sizes" mod file unnecessarily big.
BTW, some time ago there was a post in se4@yahooGroups with a suggested list of vehiclesizes and Kt of each. I have erased it from my system, but will check history in yahoGroups web site to find it.
I have a few new sizes in my starwars mod.
* Infantry: Some players have asked for this size and I believe it will be a great addition to your chart. Note that it's useless without the specific custom components (Infantry Rifles). The custom pic in the default race dir comes from the boarding party comp with changed colors to match neutral race shipset. Also some of my shipsets have specific infantry pics.
And these are very specific of the starwars mod (only available for players with a specific racial advantage) and I'm not sure if suitable for more general mod.
* TIE Fighter, TIE Bomber and TIE Advanced are fighters that can only have 2 engines but have combat movement bonus and are fast in battle, these sizes use fighter pics.
* Small, Medium and Large Death Star may be similar to battlemoons, I have use 3 different custom pics in the default race dir.
Andrés Lescano
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