Skinning

[AeternusDoleo]

I've brough this up before and wanted to do so again. Considering the different groups we have in Disco, even within the same ID's (multiple factions of Sairs, Zoners, Outcasts, etc), each is unique in it's own way.
I would like to propose skinning, with each faction designing a ship skin for each ship it has for it's group. True, it needs to be available for all factions for it to be visible during play but we could make it part of an overall mod. It'll give some individuality amongst factions and be kinda kool.

Good idea in theory, but in practise it means mod updates and lots of them. Each newly skinned ship will have to have a seperate CMP, SUR and MAT defined...

Maybe a better idea would be the use of "badges", mountable equipment much like those cargo pods. They would add a small plaque to the hull of the ship where a faction banner could be displayed on. Main issue would be defining these for various sizes, and setting up each model to be able to use them...

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