Creating custom races

How about some minor tweaks?

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Quoting Raynman, reply 3

Thanks for the feedback!  

I talked with the lead designer about this and there maybe tweaks that will need to be made with the map generation.

Now would you kindly talk with someone to make an ingame ships painting tool for those who do not have the habit to tinker with xml file? There are preset schemes to choos from but none matches the one I've planned for the race I intended to create. And suddenly I discovered that there is no such thing as painting tool like in GC2! I'd appreciate you bringing it back for us noobs.

And perhaps an option to import files (including jpg extensions) as leader portraits, backgrounds, flags and the like? Cause the only graphic tool I bothered to install on my PC is good old paint and it doesn't seem to be able to create png files the game would use. Portraits made with it do appear as grey squares in the selection menu. Plus I still have to manually place pictures in the appropriate folder. Solving this would help noobs like me quite a lot!

Really this whould help a lot for the people who would want to play and create their races but do not have the proper skills to mod the game. So far this aspect of the game isn't too friendly for noobs and casuals.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yeah, it seems the custom races creator took two steps forward and one step back from Gal Civs II. I hated that I had to choose a color theme (like Swamp) and not just choose from a color palette like in the past to mix-and-match what we want. And yes, importing custom portraits and flags should be as easy as it was in GCII. Luckily, we're still in Beta and these shouldn't be hard to change/add. 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

All in all I love a lot of what they have done, fantastic work on custom races, and I put this in another thread but just to make sure it's seen.


A color palette would be ideal for all of these, as would a button to import pictures, and a tooltip to tell you their format and size requirements.


The map theme colors custom races use are an actual problem too, as there isn't enough to pick from. Territory could blur together very easily with several custom races sharing the same base color on the main map. 



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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Jarac, reply 1

Yeah, it seems the custom races creator took two steps forward and one step back from Gal Civs II. I hated that I had to choose a color theme (like Swamp) and not just choose from. And yes, importing custom portraits and flags should be as easy as it was in GCII. Luckily, we're still in Beta and these shouldn't be hard to change/add. 

True. We are at beta still but having flagged such selfobvious things and the most precios -- the ai, is a really bad omen when so close to release (as they claim to be). So I'm hitting the alarm button here before it is to late.