Sea Power

Sea Power

Not enough ratings
Hoover's Fun with Flags
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Mod Type: Reskin, Overhaul, Realism
File Size
Posted
Updated
14.246 MB
15 Jan @ 9:53pm
22 Mar @ 7:05pm
9 Change Notes ( view )

Subscribe to download
Hoover's Fun with Flags

Description
When I was a child my ex navy grandfather used to talk about the ole battle ensign and it's importance, well I've decided to heed his words, channel my inner geography nerd and do some touching up of flags while I'm here.

This mod goes and updates the "Nations Override" list in the mission editor to include both civil and naval flags and add a few nations into the game that weren't working before.

***In some news, Fun with flags no longer requires Sealifter, though I still highly recommend giving that project a go as many other textures can be used to further improve the fun to be had.***

The full list of changed nations are as per below:

Soviet/Soviet Navy
United Kingdom/Royal Navy
Thailand/Royal Thai Navy
South Africa/South African Navy
Singapore/Republic of Singapore Navy
Philippines/Philippine Navy
North Korea/Korean People's Army Navy
New Zealand/Royal New Zealand Navy
Myanmar/Myanmar Navy
Jordan/Royal Jordanian Navy
Japan/Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force
Italy/Italian Navy
Israel/Israeli Navy
India/Indian Navy
Finland
Egypt/Egyptian Navy
East Germany/East German Navy
Cuba
China/People's Liberation Army Navy
Canada/Royal Canadian Navy
Belgium/Belgium Navy
Australia/Royal Australian Navy
Indonesia
Malaysia/Malaysian Navy
Morocco/Moroccan Navy
Oman/Omani Navy
Qatar
Taiwan
Türkiye
Nigeria
Argentina
Yugoslavia
Albania/Albania Navy
Austria/Austrian Navy (landlocked I know but for the alt history fans out there)
Bahamas/Bahamas Navy
Bosnia
Cameroon
Chile
Columbia/Columbian Navy
Costa Rico
Croatia/Croatian Navy
Czechoslovakia
Dominican Republic/Dominican Navy
Ecuador/Ecuadorian Navy
El Salvador/El Salvadorian Navy
Estonia
Georgia
Georgian Navy
Ghana/Ghanaian Navy
Guatemala/Guatemalan Navy
Haiti/Haitian Navy
Honduras/Honduran Navy
Côte d'Ivoire
Jamaica/Jamaican Navy
Latvia/Latvian Navy
Lithuania
Madagascar
Mauritania
Mexico
Montenegro/Montenegrin Navy
Slovakia
Trinidad & Tobago/Trinidad Navy
Ukraine/Ukrainian Navy
Uruguay
Venezuela
Western Sahara
UN
NATO
PIRATES YAR!!! (yes the ole' style skull and cross bones)


NEW UPDATE!

Another flag list update. The following new flags posted, I hope I'm running out now.
Bangladesh/Bangladesh Navy
Barbados/Barbados Navy
Brunei/Royal Brunei Navy
Djibouti
Ireland
Kenya
Papua New Guinea
Peru/Peruvian Navy
Cambodia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro/Serbia and Montenegrin Navy (1992 - 2006 country)

Some of the nations have been changed so that all the countries now sort alphabetically a bit nicer.
So now countries will look like this:
Australia (Royal Australian Navy)

instead of out of alphabetical order.

This takes the faction count up to 174! crazy.

I'm also working on a texture overlay to make the flags look a bit nicer. Watch this space

Apologies, I am by no means the expert on these flags, so if there's an issue feel free to message me and I'm happy to adjust. Apologies if your nation is missed in this first list. I promise more are on the way! If anyone wants any particular nations added, also yell out ... politely.

The only nations that are inaccurate as so far as I can tell are the Scandinavian navies that like to use swallowtail and tongue flags that I won't be able to get working without tuning up my blender skills so people will have to wait for that unless a volunteer wants to make me a mesh.

If you want to use my mods in your own mods the ships\materials\textures folder has the textures, I'd just copy that structure into your mod folder and use the same path in your ship_variant.ini files. Sing out if you get lost.

NOTE: The country names in the mission editor actually get loaded when you start the game, and are not loaded in the mod refresh. So if you care about pretty names e.g. Belgian Navy as opposed to belgium_navy, then just restart your game after loading the mod. Not much I can do about that one.

Have fun all!

------------------

There does seem to be a bug affecting some ships that just won't allow you to overwrite the flag on those specific ships, (Iranian La Combattante is an example), I have released a fix as an interim until the game makers fix it, check out Hoover's Flag Fixes Mod in the workshop.
16 Comments
FavoritesMistakes 20 Jun @ 3:59am 
Cant find the Indonesia Flag
Petomaniac 5 Jun @ 10:51am 
can you also add the dutch flag ( the Netherlands)?
Pilgrim 12 May @ 2:54am 
Canadian Flag is broken - might be from the update regardless the Naval Ensign and the Regular flag show up as the Canadian Maple Leaf and on the ship itself is just a red flag.
Stormsword17 4 May @ 7:40am 
New update's broken the mod again unfortunately. Also as feedback - the post-1994 South African naval ensign is a variant of the British naval ensign, but with a green cross and South African flag
Stormsword17 26 Apr @ 2:27pm 
Yeah seconded, update's definitely messed with the mod - the pirate ensign isn't showing at all, for instance. Love the work you've done with this so no complaints :)
F1NN1NG 26 Apr @ 11:35am 
Unless I'm doing this wrong, it doesn't seem like this is working with the recent update. Specifically, the Japanese ships still have the flag of Japan rather than the Rising Sun that is supposed to be in the mod.
Hoovercopter  [author] 22 Apr @ 3:08am 
Hey cptWillie, I've had a look today and I can't replicate this issue on my side. In addition looking at that error; The warning indicates that Unity found a texture in its cache with a specific hash value (c2tnjzqqdobonsu9qeqp0a==), but it's not necessarily an error that will break your game. It's more of an informational message about Unity's texture caching system.

I'd try adding my mod to the top of your load order. The flags that you mention are also from my most recent update so maybe remove and re-add the mod as perhaps there was an updating issue?
cptWillie 21 Apr @ 11:56am 
Hoover-
some of the flags lead to this continuous error in the log file:
[Unity] WARNING: ships/materials/textures/flag_trinidad.png: Texture found in cache with hash c2tnjzqqdobonsu9qeqp0a==</font><font color=black> in UnityLog.cs: HandleUnityLog (line 55)</font>

so far I've found Colombia, Trinidad, and El Salvador throw this error. It eventually leads to maxing out the log file and game crash. Thought you should know.
Spectre444 15 Apr @ 2:27pm 
Could you possibly look into porting in the flags of the Spanish Civil War for me, please? I'd be mostly looking for Republican and Catalan flags. Also, something resembling the MGS Foxhound emblem in a flag would be cool too. I've got some campaigns in the works that could really use those to improve immersion. I'd appreciate it greatly.
All You Can Eat 2 Apr @ 4:41pm 
I've just downloaded this today and unfortunately about half the flags don't seem to be working. Some are, so definitely some made it into the game that weren't there originally, like the NATO flag or Russia, but many come up as default USSR flags, or are totally black.

I'm using this new one, the one without sealifter.