A Treatise On Custom Banners

[Marquês do Bonfim]

Yeah, I tested it and it worked flawlessly.

Edited February 21, 2019 by Portuguese Privateer

[Serk]

On 4/20/2019 at 11:04 AM, Sir "The Lorax" John said:

edit... This is replacing a DLC flag

Hi,

 

Could you share how you achieved that? Is it also modifying DLC flags used by others?

 

cheers,

Edited May 12, 2019 by Serk

[sxMarcelxs]

Any sucesse on finding the files for ship paints ? i would love to create custom paints for some ships

 

[Marquês do Bonfim]

On 4/20/2019 at 12:04 PM, Sir "The Lorax" John said:

edit... This is replacing a DLC flag

Could you share the method/file you replaced?

[Marquês do Bonfim]

Thank you! That map looks amazing. I once tried to modify the map, but failed miserably. If you ever succeed in modifying it, please, I would love to have that map in my game! xD And thank you for sharing that method, I tried modifying the flags on the resources.assets, but didn't work either. I don't know, maybe I did something wrong with it, I'll glady try that again. @Sir "The Lorax" John

When I tried to modify the map, the cities/ports were out of place, probably because the map I replaced was bigger/smaller than the original one from the game, but noneless it was a replica of the same map, just different colors and different details, must've done something wrong, I'll try something new with it. Did you make that map yourself?

Edited August 15, 2019 by Portuguese Privateer

[van stiermarken]

a contest for new flags (based on realistic flags) would be nice. it makes fun to build own flags but when nobody sees then it's worthless.

[Frosty]

Does this still work? Tried with another Unite explorer (assetbundleexplorer) which doesn't have all options and doesn't extract in dds.. only in raw .dat so I don't really don't know.
 

 

[Marquês do Bonfim]

It does, I use this method to this date.

[Tomasso il Fortunato]

On 8/6/2019 at 5:38 PM, Sir "The Lorax" John said:

Of course Yes, all the ships flying that particular flag will fly your edited version - so I often edit the least-used flags.

 

DLC Flag Location

As @Charles Edward Stuart says, the basegame flags are located in the file titled  ' sharedassests0.assets '  .  The DLC flags, however, are accessed through the file titled  ' resources.assets '  .  Following the same path that Charles offered before, choose this file instead.

 

Finding a Particular DLC Flag

Once you have opened  ' resources.assets '  , I recommend beginning a search for your flag.  I have found success searching by using the name of the flag given in game (omitting the word 'flag')

Here are two example searches:

 

As in the basegame tutorial, be warned: You are looking for the ' .tex  ' file with a size of approximately 174,000.  It may be necessary to click ' Find Next ' once or twice to locate the proper file.

Prinse Geus:  Find Next

Not this one:  

Click Find Next:

This one:         

And if you were to click Find Next again:

Not this one: 

 

 

Other Interests in resources.assets

Using this folder, I have begun editing my map...

Location:

 

 

Hopefully this helps!

 

 

The paint files can be found in resources.assets... I am not experienced enough to edit them myself

Propose this map to admin to put it on live servers.

[JDMonster]

@Sir John  Hey man, could you share the file your map if you finished it?  It looks amazing.

[erelkivtuadrater]

That map should be standard imo 🤘😁

[van stiermarken]

On 2/17/2019 at 5:07 AM, Portuguese Privateer said:

Is this method still available for the default flags in-game? 

yes - feel free to use 

 

 

[Henry Long Castle]

On 2/17/2019 at 6:07 AM, Portuguese Privateer said:

Is this method still available for the default flags in-game? 

Yep

This one here I made in place of the Flag of Henry Every but you can do it for any flag, default or not

 

Edited May 18, 2020 by Henry Long Castle

[Gabriel Espedrosa]

Hi everyone!

Great thread here! I've been working on a bunch of flags for other nations in order to make them more interesting and eye candy.

Those do not aim historical accuracy, but be more eye catching. Feel free to follow to the guide to change them if you want to.

 

[Gibson]

On 6/14/2020 at 1:26 PM, Gabriel Espedrosa said:

Hi everyone!

Great thread here! I've been working on a bunch of flags for other nations in order to make them more interesting and eye candy.

Those do not aim historical accuracy, but be more eye catching. Feel free to follow to the guide to change them if you want to.

 

Great work! It looks amazing! Can you share it, and write how to install thouse flags in to the game?

[Gabriel Espedrosa]

Just Follow the tutorials posted on the first page of the forum 😉

[David55]

On 8/25/2018 at 9:20 AM, Wilhelm von Seydlitz said:

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2020 by David55

[David55]

On 8/25/2018 at 9:20 AM, Wilhelm von Seydlitz said:

"Deine Anleitung funktioniert super, danke nochmal. 👍
Ich muss nur noch etwas mit der Transparente Flaggenstruktur experimentieren. 🙂"

 

I cannot find the UnityEX, could someone post the link in here? or help me where and how to get it?       

 

On 8/25/2018 at 9:20 AM, Wilhelm von Seydlitz said:

 

 

[Henry Long Castle]

I have uploaded UnityEX to my google drive : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DWRDucLw2u8KHeNRbhXHvWfKgwDZEkA6/view?usp=sharing
Since its an compressed EXE file feel free to check it for viruses ect, I was skeptical when I downloaded it as well

[DeWoudt]

I can confirm this method of flag editing still works for the moment, just be aware of any patches as they might overwrite the file containing the flag texture.

Never use a older sharedassets0.assets file to replace a newer patched one as it can have serious unforseen consequences. For example,

when an update happened last week and I replaced it with one I though was current I had huge frame rate issues on the open world which immediatly disseared

when I reverted back to the original file

 

My question for

@Charles Edward Stuart

You happen to know where the DLC flags are located? 

[Henry Long Castle]

DLC flags are located at resources.assets   just above the sharedassets0 . You have to search for the name of the flag until you find the one ending on .tex and will have a size of 174872

 

Edited October 11, 2020 by Henry Long Castle

[Marquês do Bonfim]

On 8/12/2020 at 8:43 AM, Henry Long Castle said:

I have uploaded UnityEX to my google drive : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DWRDucLw2u8KHeNRbhXHvWfKgwDZEkA6/view?usp=sharing
Since its an compressed EXE file feel free to check it for viruses ect, I was skeptical when I downloaded it as well

Weirdly enough, It's not letting me access the file in order to download it. I don't know if it's on my end or yours, can you check for me please?

Edit: Nevermind, I found a MEGA link that worked.

Edited December 29, 2020 by Marquis de LaFourche

[ThatBronySavage]

On 8/25/2018 at 1:29 AM, Havelock said:

I was wondering... how deep did you dive into those files? What else could be modded?

Does this still work? Where can I find a Unity Explorer since I have tried to find one but to no avail. Is this still possible? 

[ThatBronySavage]

On 8/24/2018 at 3:54 PM, Charles Edward Stuart said:

Anyone who has requests can message them to me. I've got spare time.

Do you still do these requests?

[kmh1893]

Greetings!, 

I don´t know if they fixed it but it doesn´t work by me.

I don´t know if I do it wrong.

Somebody knows if it works or if they fixed that?

Edited February 20, 2023 by kmh1893