Most of the ships turn grey: You didn't replace the GFX filesĢ. If you do any of this wrong you will be able to tell:ġ.
You installed through steam, a verify game cache will restore them (or Here in all there glory you can see the new plethora, nearly 256 choices one has to pick from. pngs in the GFX folder of Galactic Civilization 3, so I set out to create a new standard for those 2 images that would allow all appearance mods to build from a shared foundation.
After having discovered how to create custom ship appearances, I quickly realized that it had a very serious limitation, in order to add new colours one had to edit the GradientMap and GradientMapLights.