Enhanced Clean UI Reskin (V2)

At long last! After another 300hrs or so of late nights, swearing at Affinity Designer and getting my UX designer girlfriend addicted to Soviet Republic so I could get more expert feedback, V2 of my UI overhaul!

This mod aims to fix a whole bunch of things I’m not a huge fan of about the current UI. The main pain points I’m improving are:

Get rid of the Skeuomorphic paper UI look.

Make the resource icons more distinct and readable.

Add a decent amount of useful data on every building thumbnail regarding what it does, how much of it it does etc, which should hopefully make choosing the correct buildings a lot easier. No more having to hover over each building to see which size it is/how productive it is/how many vehicles it holds etc, or even to work out what sort of building it is!

Obviously I’m working within the limitations of only being able to replace images, not move or change anything. Also in some cases I can’t change buttons as I’d like (e.g the "Add new line" button shares the same plus button as every other plus button in the game, so I can’t do a custom icon for it) but I think even within those limitations it’s a decent improvement.

Note I haven’t updated any of the map editor or research related UI/icons yet either.

1. Subscribe to this mod and wait for it to download.

2. Right click on the game in Steam, select Manage > Show Local files. You will be taken to the game folder, usually ‘steamappscommonSoviet Republicmedia_soviet’.

3. Find the folder with the mod. To do this, open another window with the same address that you have open now, then go up a few levels to the folder ‘steamapps’, then go to the subfolder with the mod ‘steamappsworkshopcontent7841503407335176 ‘.

4. Copy the folders from the Media_Soviet.zip file into the Media_Soviet folder of your game install. (if you have terribly slow internet you might want to make backup copies of the original folders in your install). If it’s being slow to unzip in windows, try using 7zip or winrar or similar.

5.You will want to turn on custom GUI size option in the game options and turn it up to at least 115% (depending on your resolution), also turn up the Bottom menu scales as high as they go.

Warning: You may need to manually reinstall this mod after any game updates come out, as it can overwrite back to the default assets.

Option 1: During install, make backups of the Menu, CWC, Editor, DLC1, Resources and Notification folders in from your media_soviet folder so you can put them back later.

Option 2: If you don’t mind downloading some stuff again, just delete the above mentioned folders then go press play on steam and it’ll redownload the default versions again.

Thanks to my dear @FromMidworld for lots of much smarter design input than I could do myself and many afternoons spent working on this together <3

Many icons in this mod are based on ones bought from Flaticon

Menu backgrounds based on art bought from user svekloid on Shutterstock (don’t use shutterstock though, good lord they have some cursed billing practices)

Feel free to remix this mod or use it as a foundation for your own UI overhaul. All I request is that you credit me as a co-author and allow me to incorporate any changes you make, as long as they align with the goal of crafting an exceptional UI for this beloved game.

If you require source assets for UI elements, I use Affinity Designer and would be happy to share them. Please contact me on the modders’ Discord (@Daffyflyer) for further details. If you want to make icons for your mod buildings that match this UI set, that’d be awesome and I’d happily help.

I’ve also done a big ol lighting overhaul for Soviet Republic, so maybe check that out?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3228447902

If you like what I’ve done, please consider contributing to the staggering amount of coffee it took to do the late nights on this mod <3 – https://ko-fi.com/daffyflyer

I’m also a game developer as a day job, if you like really detailed games about cars and engineering them, check out Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game