Grandsome’s Better Icons
Updated for 7.10
The dependancy tag free version is now default.
Grandsome’s Better Icons; Based on MoistDreams Variety and Rebalance Overhaul Icon Pack.
Nexus Page for more details.[www.nexusmods.com]
Recognizing any ship at a glance. (Yeah, corpo speak.)
Works Both on Vanilla and VRO.
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 and existing ship classes 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 version 7.10 with Split, CoH, ToA, KE DLC. also the following mods
Vanilla Mod Supports:
- XR ShipPack – Steam
- DeadAir Factions + DeadAirShips Support – GitHub[github.com]
- Lint5’s Paranid Guardian – Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion – Steam
- VRO Cruisers Submod – Steam
- Ragnarok – Steam
- Yaki Hoshi Carrier – Steam
- Heavy Combat Drone – Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack – 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
VRO Mod Support:
- VRO – Nexus[www.nexusmods.com] / Steam
- XR ShipPack – Nexus [www.nexusmods.com]/ Steam
- XR ShipPack VRO – Steam
- Split Tiger – XL Battleship (VRO) – Steam
- DeadAir Factions + DeadAirShips Support – GitHub[github.com]
- Lint5’s Paranid Guardian – Steam
- Lint5’s Paranid Guardians VRO – Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion – Nexus[www.nexusmods.com] / Steam
- Ship Variation Expansion VRO – Steam
- VRO Cruisers Submod – Steam
- Ragnarok (VRO) – Steam
- Yaki Hoshi Carrier – Steam
- Heavy Combat Drone VRO – Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack – Nexus[www.nexusmods.com] / Steam
- Terran Ships ModPack VRO Patch – Steam
- X3 ATF/USC Ship Pack (VRO) – Steam
- Armed merchant cruisers for VRO – Steam
- Rise of Ossian Raider VRO (Thanks to user: Silencer) – Steam
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 on Nexus and credit me, thank you.
