Neo-expansion Pack

From SEWiki

The Neo-Expansion Pack (sometimes abbreviated to NXP) is a substantial collection of images to enhance and expand Space Empires IV. The aim of the NXP is to extend all 21 of the game's stock shipsets (20 races plus the generic shipset) to full Neostandard compatibility. The idea is to add colour to modded games by giving the stock races distinct ship pictures for those hulls that call upon the neo-standard images. Where a nxp image is missing, a mod will use either another image from the same shipset, or the corresponding image from the generic shipset, according to entries in the mod's vehiclesizes.txt file.

To complete all 21 shipsets would require some 420 new ship (SEIV) and unit (SEIV) images. As of version 1.40, the NXP comprises 162 images. Some points of note:

• The NXP has completed the Generic, Ukratal and EEE shipsets. The generic set is the most important, since it supplies images to any other shipsets that are missing them, as well as being the shipset used by the neutral empires
• As of 1.40, all 21 shipsets have (among others) a worldship and a scout image.
• Creating new images that fit with the style of the original shipsets is not easy. Some images (those by mlmbd) were custom-modeled and rendered in Doga, and a few others were hand-drawn from scratch (most of the infantry images). The remaining images are the result of 'remixing' SEIV's stock shipsets by use of painstaking copy/paste and pixel-pushing operations.
• Contributions of new images to the NXP are welcome at any time, from anyone.

View the NXP images and download the zip at the Neo-expansion pack's official homepage.

Another similar project is the Proportional Response Pack.