More Custom Videos/Pictures

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Would like to see a big selection of unused pictures, videos and such for creating custom races. I say unused, because I would rather not run into myself while playing the game, like a minor race that uses the picture pack I chose. Would be really neat to have a lot of variety here from the start. I know we are given freedom to work with it ourselves, but I would prefer they were more professional quality.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

+1

It would also be nice to have minors not use pictures/logos that are used for a major (like just auto-sub them out or something).

I would be really happy with just a big "alien stuff DLC" pack for one of the dlc releases, with pics/vids/logos and a bunch of ship themes that maybe didn't make the final cut...  I find that I conjure up quite a few custom races and there really ends up being a lot of asset overlap..

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yep, this would be fantastic.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting tid242, reply 1

+1

It would also be nice to have minors not use pictures/logos that are used for a major (like just auto-sub them out or something).

I would be really happy with just a big "alien stuff DLC" pack for one of the dlc releases, with pics/vids/logos and a bunch of ship themes that maybe didn't make the final cut...  I find that I conjure up quite a few custom races and there really ends up being a lot of asset overlap..
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Yep. Maybe some kind of 'Best of the Net' like Civ 2 did way back when? They included a bunch of fan made Civs and Scenarios as part of an official expansion (I think the last one). Something like that, along with some new and unique factions.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Using gimp, I made quite a few foregrounds and backgrounds in a day or two.  The time-consuming part of the process was the actual race creation, not in making the images.  It takes about 5 minutes to make the race images for one civ.  And there are a couple of good downloads for logos, so you don't have to make those at all. 

 

I think making them yourself is the way to go, because you may never be happy with the content that Stardock makes for races.

 

I strongly suggest you don't subscribe to any races on Steam, as it creates a lot of problems... or at least doing so created many problems for me.  I also suggest you create a document that notes the name, logo, tech, trait, and color of any races you create to avoid overlap.  It sucks to get 12 hours in and find out you have overlap.

 

edit: its also pretty easy to transfer images from GCII to GCIII and vice versa, so if you have a lot of races from II, just use something like Gimp to transfer them to III.  The logos in GCII don't need to be edited at all, they are the same size.