(Question) Creating new ship styles

I've seen alot posted on creating new ship style sets but would anyone have any idea how to create a new ship style?

This way you could create for example, a ship style that uses the components of Terran and Krynn together in the designer when building ships for your ship style set.

Thanks for any help you can give

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Gauntlet03

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If you check your options in the ship designer you can enable parts from all styles, no need to mod!

My tutorials might help you,

Gauntlets Tutorials for GalCiv 3:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVA5Lf10pstMfYckhKGNE2YjlAtbRaTD1

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Unfortunetely it is currently EXTREMELY vague how we create ship sets/styles.

If you want to build ships with more than one style of part, Gauntlet had the great advice of checking the option of allowing all styles. This is also great for using otherwise hidden parts like Relic sections (some of the awesome campaign ships used these, work really well with most race styles).

EDIT: However the AI will use these ships sometimes, and you may end up with a cluttered list that really just feels like a ton of custom ships lying around.

This guide

https://forums.galciv3.com/465834/page/1/

Is very useful for setting up the XMLs and such, but personally I still feel short on what to do... Even the most in-depth guide is only useful if you have a full list of ships already made, a custom race with it's own XML series, personally experience with editing scripts, and a PERFECTLY laid out mod folder.

I'm hoping Stardock make the process easier, but I guess I'm just being impatient. Besides, if everyone could do this stuff I think it'd become a cheap novelty and even the likes of the Iconian style would die out...

I don't know, sorry I'm not much help, I'm mostly stuck too.

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I will look into the guide and tutorials, thanks

I was more wondering because if you could create a unique ship style you would be able to add custom made resources for ship parts as well as not having to worry about the clutter in the designer from every custom race using the same few styles.

Like with the Kuja faction Dumhed created, it may have its own ship styles for everything but when you go into the iconian ship designer the templates for even the starbases fill it with clutter, not so bad when you only have a couple custom races, but it would be horrible once you have 3 or 4 using the same ship style

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