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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.

Link to my other mods.