1.5 ship appearances

[Scourgeclaw]

So it seems ships in 1.5 match aspects of their hulls and exhaust contrails to your flag colors

This is something I've been begging and hoping for since before the game launched: I get so tired of seeing the same ships used every 3.5 seconds as the game goes on. Call me a sucker for minor superficial visual features but I'll be damned if this doesn't make me giddy to actually meet new species again, just to see what their ships look like with the new colors. Bring on the spaceship porn!

Here's hoping there's an option to match the secondary color as opposed to the primary color: either way, I can't wait to finally see some variance in ships that don't require me to download 18 sextillion mods and pre-script custom races all over the place (still doing that anyway, I just don't have to now to stave off going autoface-bitingly insane)

Big thanks to whomever on the devteam went back and added all of this- you're my personal hero, and thanks to Wiz for managing to keep his promise. Internet cuddles all around

 

[Alblaka]

I remember one of the twitter leaks already mentioned that ship color customization is being worked on, albeit they are not sure whether it will be fully implemented by the time 1.5 is released.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

Yeah, this is much appreciated.

I imagine it'll also encourage more variety in flag colour schemes, if only from an RP perspective.

 

[Scourgeclaw]

I remember one of the twitter leaks already mentioned that ship color customization is being worked on, albeit they are not sure whether it will be fully implemented by the time 1.5 is released.

I'd have to dig for it but there's a quote where Wiz was gunning to have it in 1.5 some time after 1.3's release.

 

[Princess Stabbity]

I'm wondering how it will operate from the technical standpoint. Texture sets or dynamic tints (most likely, less resource-demanding)? My team would definitely love to adapt it to work with our Asari ships and other modders probably will as well. If it's painless enough to implement, that will add a lot more customisation to custom shipsets, which otherwise are hard to design around Stellaris hull segmenting.

 

[Mitchz95]

I love this so much. But hopefully we can choose our own ship colors rather than always matching our flags. Otherwise the UN ships will be solid blue, which isn't really a good look IMO.

 

[Fourthspartan56]

This looks amazing!

 

[Insane Commander]

I love this so much. But hopefully we can choose our own ship colors rather than always matching our flags. Otherwise the UN ships will be solid blue, which isn't really a good look IMO.

Actually you can have two colors for the UN and select a background theme that shows only one. So the other color would be available for the ships.

I found out about this when I tried to play with a black flag, but forgot to change the second color. The empire's flag was black only, but my territory was red...

 

[eatssteak3]

Can anyone who is knowledgeable on the subject tell precisely what is and isn't affected by colors according to this picture? Is it all of the hull, some of it, or what? Definitely the glowing parts are different than normal, but what of the rest?

I'm not overly familiar with those hulls (I stick to mostly reptilian in my playthroughs) nor do I have eyesight good enough to distinguish the little details, so if anyone could pick it out that'd be amazing.

 

[Mitchz95]

Can anyone who is knowledgeable on the subject tell precisely what is and isn't affected by colors according to this picture? Is it all of the hull, some of it, or what? Definitely the glowing parts are different than normal, but what of the rest?

I'm not overly familiar with those hulls (I stick to mostly reptilian in my playthroughs) nor do I have eyesight good enough to distinguish the little details, so if anyone could pick it out that'd be amazing.

The hulls appear to be a muted shade of gold/green as well. It's more visible in this pic (also from Wiz's twitter):

So the hulls, glowy bits, and engine trails are colored.

 

[eatssteak3]

The hulls appear to be a muted shade of gold/green as well. It's more visible in this pic (also from Wiz's twitter):

So the hulls, glowy bits, and engine trails are colored.

Wow thank you! That's really cool! I'm so hyped right now for 1.5 it's insane.

 

[Mitchz95]

Wow thank you! That's really cool! I'm so hyped right now for 1.5 it's insane.

No problem. 1.5 looks to be an incredible update all around.

Also, here's the race that owns the green ship:

Note the purple on the flag, but not on the ships. That seems to indicate that it only draws on your primary color, not secondary.

But that's just one example. We'll learn more once the devstreams start up again.

 

[Scourgeclaw]

I love this so much. But hopefully we can choose our own ship colors rather than always matching our flags. Otherwise the UN ships will be solid blue, which isn't really a good look IMO.

Actually you can have two colors for the UN and select a background theme that shows only one. So the other color would be available for the ships.

I found out about this when I tried to play with a black flag, but forgot to change the second color. The empire's flag was black only, but my territory was red...

Honestly the easiest way to avoid players being stuck with a color-scheme they don't like would be to allow a separate set of color selections just in the ship-model select screen. I can't imagine that'd be too terribly hard to do, and for the AI: just default them to flag colors, let players go hogwild

 

[OBRkenobi]

Wiz confirmed that in 1.5 ship colours will match their empires flag colours.

 

[Mitchz95]

Wiz confirmed that in 1.5 ship colours will match their empires flag colours.

Where?

 

[Malecord]

Big thanks to whomever on the devteam went back and added all of this- you're my personal hero, and thanks to Wiz for managing to keep his promise. Internet cuddles all around

Don't say thanks before you know the price tag

Jokes aside, it's just the same for me. I welcome ship color variety. And I would pay for additional model variety.

 

[David12596]

I do kinda hope that when they introduce ship hull changing colors based on a color you pick that they add many more colors to pick from for your race. I want something like complete colors mod in the base game.

 

[Crusader Vanguard]

I want to know how this adapting color scheme will effect shipset mods. I've got an entire collection on the Steam workshop that has an entire color wheel of options because Paradox didn't offer any until now. There is also the Warpaints mod and a lot of other good shipset mods on the workshop. How will this color adaption effect them? I guess we're going to have to wait for more details on how this works in-game. I like the change and the direction this is going in, I just hope Paradox didn't make all shipsets on the Steam workshop obsolete.

 

[OBRkenobi]

Where?

I think it was on reddit. He also said that they would work on adding unique empire colours to the hulls of the ships themselves. But not for 1.5.