I’m not quite sure whether this should be in Gratuitous Modding sub-forum because it deals in editing .txt files, but I think this is where it should go, and as such I am placing it here. Sorry if it should be in Gratuitous Modding :-/
Anyways, for those of you who never noticed, the Tribe, Nomads, and Order all seem to be using the wrong target painter turret graphic on there hulls–
Tribe is using a federation beam laser module that is blue, Nomads are using the default target painter when they have there own personalized target painter, and the Order is using a Plasma launcher module instead of their own target painter for some reason.
I have no idea why these races are using such wrong graphics for those turrets. Surely I can’t be the only one who noticed this error in the game. This bugged my perfectionist side, and I eventually figured out how to fix it. The problem lies in in the race file (steam/steammaps/common/Gratuitous Space Battles/Tribe(or Order, Nomads respectively)/data/races or Gratuitous Space Battles/Tribe for those who did not install through Steam)
The way to fix this is to edit the line
turret_pd_v1 = federation_turret_pd_v1.dds,turrets_federation.dds,10
turret_pd_v2 = federation_turret_pd_v2.dds,turrets_federation.dds,10
to
turret_pd_v1 = federation_turret_pd_v1.dds,turrets_federation.dds,22
turret_pd_v2 = federation_turret_pd_v2.dds,turrets_federation.dds,23
In order to fix the Order’s target painter, you have to change the line in there race folder (steam/steammaps/common/Gratuitous Space Battles/Order/data/races or Gratuitous Space Battles/Order) from
turret_pd_v1 = order_turret_pd1.dds,turrets_federation.dds,24
turret_pd_v2 = order_turret_pd2.dds,turrets_federation.dds,25
to
turret_pd_v1 = order_turret_pd1.dds,turrets_order.dds,25
turret_pd_v2 = order_turret_pd2.dds,turrets_order.dds,26
And finally, to fix the Nomads problem, you have to change there race folder from
turret_pd_v1 = nomad_turret_pd1.dds,turrets_federation.dds,24
turret_pd_v2 = nomad_turret_pd2.dds,turrets_federation.dds,25
to
turret_pd_v1 = nomad_turret_pd1.dds,turrets_nomad.dds,23
turret_pd_v2 = nomad_turret_pd2.dds,turrets_nomad.dds,23
Also, please tell me if this works on your computers, it does on mine, but I want to be sure, and how do I hide parts of this as spoilers? I feel bad about the wall of text…