31 more "new" jewels for your ships, with the loose theme of logistics... they mostly look either like stuff to transport things, or things in which to transport stuff. It's a bit of a stretch; see the "notes" below.
INCLUDES:
- Ten parts used on the asteroid mining bases, including the base core (not available elsewhere);
- all eight starbase "cores," both the DL and DA versions (I love the DL Influence base core!);
- the five ground forces units (including the turret!), so you can set up a staging area on your invasion ships;
- six dummy cargo hulls you can use as jewels (they are some of the best jewels in the game!);
- a dummy life-support module (the DA module is pretty cool;
- a dummy "brick" hull (well, *I* like it, anyway);
- The jewels are grouped in four "thematic" .xml files... if you don't like one of the "themes," just delete the file, and the jewels are gone!
WARNING:
My computer sometimes crashes when attempting to resize the "turret" jewel... back up frequently, and use at your own risk!
NOTE:
This mod was slated to be a more comprehensive jewel pack, including not only these, but habitat domes, astro droids, and enhanced versions of the hulls and parts that came with GC2 but weren't implemented as jewels (e.g., the tutorial ship). These other items have been taking a long time: my goal for the retexturing is to double the resolution, but I don't work in a 3D graphics program, so going back and forth between programs takes a while. Forum member knkg is doing a wonderful job on new models for the domes and droids, which were necessary because they really didn't look good on the old models (see pictures in the forum). However, he can only work as fast as I do, so they are creeping along right now. I expect to be done with these soon, and I will post them as a separate mod.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Many thanks to knkg, who is helping with the second part of this mod. Also thanks to dystopic for requesting the other starbase cores (why was I only going to add the culture base core? I don't know...). And thanks to everyone else who expressed interest!
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