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[MOD] Gauntlet's Race Mod (UPDATED R-1.7 for Retribution 4.21!)

[MOD] Gauntlet's Race Mod (UPDATED R-1.7 for Retribution 4.21!)

GRM R-1.7 FOR RETRIBUTION NOW AVAILABLE!

The GRM Universe now has a Wiki!

https://sites.google.com/view/stellar-codex/home

 


What IS Gauntlet's Race Mod?
Gauntlet's Race Mod is the premier custom race mod for Galactic Civilizations 3 and also provides an array of additional content to improve your game experience. There are versions of GRM for both Crusade and non-Crusade, however the non-Crusade version will generally go unsupported.

GRM Offers
30+ Custom Ship Styles that the AI will use!
40+ Custom Races
50+ Ship Appearances
15+ Minor Races (who start with some colony ships!)
100+ Race Portraits
100+ Backgrounds
200+ Race Logos
600+ Citizen Portraits

Replaces the Anomalies and greatly increases their diversity and coolness!
Replaces all Mercenaries from the Bazaar
Replaces the Mines and Bazaar models
Replaces the Pirate models and grants them a few starting ships!
Adds additional Abilities!
Adds additional Starting Ship Combos!

 
 
KNOWN ISSUES and USE
1) If you use this mod for your own ships/races/etc. a brief credit to this mod is appreciated. 

2) Turn ship-trails off, I use engines as parts in turrets and hulls, it can be distracting.

3) If you experience performance issues, it is most likely the result of the heavy use of animations in any/all of my ship models, or otherwise GC3's general issues. If you experience issues, I recommend either playing with less total races, less races utilizing the ship sets, or otherwise upgrading your PC.
 
4) Under no circumstances may you upload any of these ship designs or factions to Steam.



THANK YOU
Please reach out and report any glitches/bugs, any ships with clipping or other issues. Also it would be great, if you end up adding to the designs using the custom components, for you to share them with the community! Please credit the mod if you do!

Special thanks to: 
Horemvore for his helpful attitude and Diplomacy UI mod!
R3bel02 for one of his logos. 
JP193 for submitting a design via the contest.



Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more!

 


 

 DOWNLOAD THE MOD HERE!

Installation instructions here:

 

 

 


 

SHOWCASE VIDEOS

 

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Reply #576 Top

Quoting CommanderBarzane, reply 575

I found out the two zip file objgfxcfg and the Ship files in the Design folder and the objgfxcfg in the startup file are being overwritten.
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They should be overwritten by the ones provided with GRM.

Reply #577 Top

I was doing that.  For some reason they were being overwritten by the game when I was Verifying the game files. :beer:

Reply #578 Top

Quoting CommanderBarzane, reply 577

I was doing that.  For some reason they were being overwritten by the game when I was Verifying the game files. :beer:
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Yeah they will :)

Reply #579 Top

Hi Gauntlet I was wondering you said you stopped working on this thinking of loading your mod in is this mod compatible with the new game version.

Reply #580 Top

Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 579

Hi Gauntlet I was wondering you said you stopped working on this thinking of loading your mod in is this mod compatible with the new game version.
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4.9 is compatible with the new version. What Gauntlet said he has stopped working on is GSM. :beer:

Reply #582 Top

@ Gauntlet, I was wondering if you have setup your GRM factions to hate each other in the FactionDefs.xml?

Reply #583 Top

No I haven't its on my to-do list... but I dislike modifying the race files beyond the in-game methods. 

 

Reply #584 Top

Quoting Gauntlet03, reply 25

They do! The AI will use the ship designs and they will upgrade. I'm using all the default blue prints/ship list though, so don't expect optimized ship designs in terms of components.
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Feel free, if you want, to take the ShipBlueprints.xml file from AI Tweaks, it is not perfect but does a far better job than the default one.

Reply #585 Top

Hey Gauntlet,

I would like to use one of your shipsets in my Star Trek mod, its the one that starts with LE_. It fits my Iconian race (its pretty close to the look of thier ships).

Reply #586 Top

Proper Accreditation, would be my request and assurance that at no point would you upload the ships to Steam. In the event that SD supports ACTUAL mods on Steam, most likely then, at that point, it would be fine.

Reply #587 Top

Full credits will be given ofc. And I do not do steam workshop(bad experiences with civ 5). Probably not even when or if SD supports full Mods on steam in the future. Thanx alot though for your permission, much appreciated!

Reply #588 Top

Awesome, enjoy!  

 

 

Reply #589 Top

Slowly getting back to work on GRM.

Just wrapped up 5 new replacements for T3 Mercs.

 

Going to see about replacing/renaming some custom components now. 

Reply #590 Top

Cool. I lost my monitor on my desk top gaming rig so I haven't been playing for the last couple of days. X( :beer: :beer:

Reply #591 Top

Gauntlet03,

 

Remember this issue?

 

https://forums.galciv3.com/472373/page/1/#3652024

 

I have my own mod and your mode in my GCIII games and both custom races are suffering from this situation.   I think I figured out what is going on (your theory is correct)... and I have a way to fix this issue... However it will be A LOT of work...  let me know if you want to discuss this a little..

Reply #592 Top

By all means we can discuss here... I just might not be too hard working on the issue right now lol. Kinda on hiatus until a new version of GC or the stand-alone (ish) thing comes out...

Reply #593 Top

Its a lot of work..... basically you have to arm *ALL* of your ship with some weapons and save it as custom ships, then use the custom ships and save it as template....  Use the new template as in your custom race xml file.  the default ships (using this new template) will be able to mount/use weapons

Reply #594 Top

OK, but will the AI place components in those spots VISIBLY or does it simply use those spots for points of animation/firing?

 

and do you need one of each weapon type or, tons?

Reply #595 Top

Hey guys! Quick update for you via You Tube!

 

 

TLDR (watch)

1) Making a mass-effect Geth inspired shipset.

2) More cleanup/more mercs.

3) A tutorial on how to "rename" a custom part.

 

Thanks! Also look for the new Fallout 4 vid I'm uploading if interested.

Reply #596 Top

Nice Ships as always gauntlet. when watching the vid. I got the impression of a insect look to them. I also have been taking a break from Gal civ. looking forward to your next vid. :beer:

Reply #597 Top

Hey Gauntlet, is there any way to opt out of using your minor races while still using your mod? I am wanting to try a game that uses the mod that puts the Star Trek minor races in in place of the originals.

Reply #598 Top

Hey guys.

Just so you know, the current version of GRM seems compatible thus far with V1.9 of GC3. Hurray!

 

 

@krbjms

Horemvore has a significant thread going on using both GRM and his awesome Star Trek mod at the same time. I don't think the minor races actually interfere with each other, so you might be good to go.

If you want to remove GRM minors, go to the My Games directory, find your mods folder, go to GRM, then "game" folder. Take out the file called 0-GRM FactionDefs.xml

You can always add minor races by using a file like the above. SO if Horemvore used such a method the files will be compatible. The incompatibility would occur if both mods have a file called FactionDefs.xml

WHICH I DO, for the sake of replacing the Pirates and removing the original minor races. That is in the GRM-PRT/Game folder, and you can also try removing that file. That will result in all GC3 original races losing GRM ability traits notably... but you probably don't care about that.

Good luck! 

 

PS: You can likely ensure compatibility by following my instructions for removing GRM-A and GRM-PRT in the "how to use optional files" readme in the GRM installation file.

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Reply #599 Top

I cant see a clash with the minors(GRM Adds minors, I remove the defaults an replace with ST ones), I do beleive I even saw a minor GRM race in the test games I did with the compatability files I made for GRM + GST. No GRM - PRT though, just GRM/GRM-M I tried to make compatible.

Reply #600 Top

Thanks Gauntlet, I am not using the Star Trek mod, just a mod off of Nexus for the minor races. It's not that they clash, it's just that I want them as my only minor races. I use your major races and about 60 others (mine and others from the workshop), but not GRM-A (personal choice, caused some difficulty for me awhile back). I also like your mercenaries and pirates in my game :thumbsup: . I saw how you had set it in your optional folder for having both the games minor races and yours, and that's what I am currently working with. Thanks again.

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