More Navy Illustrations
More Navy Illustrations (MNI) adds extra art for all primary naval base PMs to minorly improve visual flavor. Vanilla Vic3 only has 3 images: Man o’ Wars, ironclads, and battleships. The ironclad art would be used for the ironclad, monitor, and dreadnought PMs. The first two were passable, but this felt very weird for dreadnoughts. With MNI, all five of these PMs have their own unique art – some reused from vanilla, and some custom-made! Never look at your boring all-ironclads navy ever again, and bask in the glory of your mighty capital ships!
For users who play with Timber to Steel, this mod also has unique art for all six PMs added by TTS. This compatibility is built-in and handled automatically – no compatibility patches or submods are required!
First two rows compare vanilla versus MNI when using the Man O’ War, Ironclad, Monitor, Dreadnought, and Battleship PMs.
Second two rows compare Timber to Steel versus MNI when using the Ships of the Line, Steam Ships of the Line, Ironclads, Pre-Dreadnoughts, Dreadnoughts, and Battleships PMs.
As stated above, MNI has built-in compatibility with Timber to Steel.
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MNI may not be compatible with mods that add new naval unit types.
Specifically, MNI overwrites the definitions from the following file:
The file itself is not replaced, but the `combat_unit_flotilla` definition is overwritten.
All other mods should work.
For modders: Due to how the triggers were defined for the art in MNI to allow for seamless compatibility with TTS, a few errors will be thrown on game start related to invalid PMs. This is intended behavior and may be safely ignored. Apologies if this causes any inconveniences.
This mod works alone and may be placed anywhere.
For users of Timber to Steel, the placement of TTS relative to MNI does not matter.
This mod does not rely on any DLC features, so you should not need any DLCs.
• YES, you may include this mod in any modpacks/collections/whatever.
• YES, you may use this mod as a base to create your own. Credit and a link back here would be very much appreciated!
• Steam Ships of the Line art by Oswald Brierly & Thomas Dutton[commons.wikimedia.org]
• Monitor art by an unknown artist
• Pre-Dreadnought art by Hugo Graf[commons.wikimedia.org]
• Battleships art by Roger H. Middlebrook GAvA[hansenfineart.co.uk]
• All custom images were touched up/edited by myself to fit better with existing Vic3 art.
