I wonder if there is an option to make only civilian ships change to one of the paint jobs. I like it for Civilian freighters to be a different skin, gives the idea these are independent contractors like the player who have aligned with a faction. Military ships though should probably still be the color of their faction.

Same, I love your paints mod but I really really don't like the fact that NPC's might use the paints.

I really hope you will create a version of the mod without NPC using added paintjobs - NPC military ships are always using these paintjobs with bright lines and they look extremely ugly. If that's not an option, please, at least disallow these ones and maybe the bright pink ones because they look too jarring

To be honest, I was hoping that you'd publish a variant without it. I know how to mod already, got a few released myself.

@draeath: there is, but you have to manually unpack the .dat file from \extensions\z_freeqspaintjobs folder (look for some basic modding guide in order to find out how to do it), then remove the libraries/themes.xml file. You don't have to pack it back afterwards, just delete the original .cat and .dat file.

"NPCs have a random chance of using one of the custom paintjobs"

Is there any easy means to stop this happening entirely? I don't see the Terran Protectorate being chill with their fleet flying bright green or purple ships, etc.

I love your paints here, but if NPC factions are going to be flying with them, I am going to have to remove it from my game :(

@Star-X: the simplest way is to unpack the mod and delete libraries/stock.xml. Maybe there is some other "smarter" way to do it - but I'm mainly a graphics guy and don't know X4's code well enough.

Any chance of making the purchasing side of things NOT apply if the mod doesn't detect the presence of either paintjob purchasing mod? I'm using the More Default Paintjob mod collection, which effectively makes paintjob items mostly pointless, but even though I don't have either paintjob purchasing mod, your mod (and for that matter the other 2 non-vanilla paintjob collections that More Default Paintjobs has compatibility for) clutters the hell out of the commodity trader window. I did find that by manually unpacking the mod and stripping out the commodity purchase XML that it made the mod how I wanted it, but surely there must be a better solution than "make a variant with no purchasing XML present in the files".

@Sanguine @thaipuff288 I think it can be done without the need of making an alternate version of the mod. It is possible to change the probability of faction ship using certain paintjob, so I can make the faction colors to be, say, 5 times more likely to appear than others, while retaining variety and still having an odd one here and there. Would you be satisfied with something like this?

I second the suggestion of thaupuff 288, Besides that I am in love with the paints.

Can you make alternate version that another ship using their faction color not just randomize like this instead?

Will look into that, pomang.

Since you mention requests... how about an Expanse MCRN themed charcoal grey/burnt orange detail paint job? With COH release and finding myself in Mars, I can't help but want to have those colors.

Nice Work! Love the dark ones!

Sweet! <3

Cool, I managed to update the mod as well. As a bonus I added one more paintjob I had in mind for a while :)

I have managed to do it myself, and its works with the split npc ships

I'll be honest with you guys, I made this mod over a year ago and I forgot a bit how do you do this stuff :D No worries though, I have to refresh my memory and I will update it.

I can't really do anything about the NPC problem. Sorry about that. I don't have enough knowledge to troubleshoot it really.

About the "libraries" folder - it is packed inside the ext_01.dat (it had to be done this way for the Steam Workshop, I forgot to change that part in readme). You have to use X Tools (available on Steam in tools section) to unpack/edit it.

We could do with that patch for Split ships bud. I have tried but alas I am shite

I just started playing and love your paintjobs! Two things though...

About Axeface's problem: I had the same problem, and it turns out your paintjobs weren't showing up in stations I'd already visited. New stations listed them all fine. I don't know if stocks refresh at any point and they will show up where they aren't, or if that's a permanent problem.

Also, I tried to remove the NPC ship file you mentioned, but that file (and the entire "libraries" folder) doesn't exist. ???
What happens if NPC ships are generated with these paintjobs, and then later the mod is removed?

No worries, I had mainly asked cause I was having issues. It took me awhile but I found the mod that was causing it.

It does, however Split ships don't use the paintjobs randomly (as it is for other factions). I will patch it in the future.

does it work for 3.0?

Thank you very much, great paint jobs!

@freeqstyler. Thanks, dunno whats happening my end then. I get all the other paintmods, just not yours (ships are being built by the AI with yours though).

I checked with the newest update and everything works as it should on my end.

Anyone having problems getting these to show up on trader menus? (With both "paint jobs for sale" and "ship traders sell paint mods" extensions installed).

Any know if the L size ships can change paints?

ok thank u for that info o/ :)

Afaik those are modded ships right? If you can't apply paintjobs to them, it's something that their author should fix. The game uses the same paintjob texture for every ship and how it is applied depends on ship's model/material, not something I can change.

very nice!

pls add paintjobs for Sucellus Arawn and Taranis (maybe if not done yet Xenon R)

Thank u!!

Thnx :D

Very nice !

Nice work.
Keep it up!

Yay! I love the paintjobs!