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Improved ship combat icons

Thanks for the explanation. It's clear without a better method, that's too much work.

Thanks for the suggestion! It's true that sounds are kept in individual files so that we can copy new sounds over the old ones. For icons, it is not so easy. Many hundreds of small graphics are kept in a single graphcs file for faster loading. Somebody would have to manually find the location of each icon in the big file, and paste the new icon at that location. But, as soon as the dev team releases a new version of the game (frequently!) it is possible that the graphics locations will be all different and the manually pasted graphic file would not work anymore.

To see what I mean, find your game install directory (.../steam/steamapps/common/Star Traders Frontiers). Then look at the graphics file sheets/gear_0.png. The original icons for each of my 90+ new icons are on here somewhere. Can you imagine pasting all my 90+ icons onto this, each time a new game version is released?

I was browsing Sound FX Overhaul
I can't help but notice it said:
[quote]You can also use this mod to your non-mod version. Here is what you need to do:

- Go to Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\335620\2586103199
- Copy folder "sfx_win32"
- Paste it to Steam\steamapps\common\Star Traders Frontiers (it will ask to replace sfx_win32" folder, of course you need to choose YES)[/quote]
Is it possible to do something similar? Thank you.

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately there is no way to use mods in the unmodded version. If you have any suggestions for improving the consistency further, please let me know.

Great mod! Thanks for the effort.
I have to say, this is must have for me; in fact, I'm wondering if it's possible to use it in the unmodded version of the game as well. Sometimes I might want to get an unlock or something, or just play unmodded for some reason and I can't play without these great new icons you made. It's not that I dislike vanilla icons; it's that their inconsistency triggers my OCD hard time.

Ah! That one works -- The color coding was a great idea.

Thanks for pointing that out. It looks like I can't edit the original post. The correct link is:
http://jendaveallen.com/Temp/stf_ship_icons.pdf

BTW, the .pdf link below returns a 404.

@DaveA

Nice work you've done here, and I'm thanking you here for all your mods I've also subbed to. Cheers!

I can't wait to try this out. One of my biggest gripes about the game was that the combat icons were, to put it mildly, inscrutable.