The Compendium - Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Universe for Gal Civ 3!!!

The Ultimate Sci-Fi War!!!

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Hello Brothers and Sisters of the Gal Civ 3 Modding Community!!! Welcome to the Ultimate One-Stop-Shop to find all your favorite Sci-Fi Races and Ship Sets to use in your own custom game of Galactic Civilizations 3!!! I'm sure most or all of these will be added to the Steam Workshop, but, I think there should be a pinned Master List here on the game's official forums as well.

This idea was formerly known as "Raven's Ultimate Sci-Fi War Mod" but I quickly realized everyone else would be working on and wanting most of the same things I will as well, and that many of us only want cosmetic changes, custom race pictures, and new ship sets, without any other modded special abilities. This post will be split into two posts (the next reply below) so we also don't leave out those who have created totally new races and factions from pure imagination not out of any of our favorite shows. If you'd like yours added to this thread just reply below and I will add yours into the appropriate category. This list is short right now but we'll be adding to it, no fear.



Custom Race Pictures and Backgrounds:

 

GalCiv3 - Star Trek Faction Pictures By 00zim00 https://forums.galciv3.com/465270/page/1/#3556530

Mass Effect Races By Sorentoft https://forums.galciv3.com/466483/page/1/#3558098

Mass Effect Logos Repost By MortisBlack https://forums.galciv3.com/466993/page/1/

[Mod] Alliance-Union Universe Custom Races By Skukkuk https://forums.galciv3.com/464282/page/1/

Honor Harrington Faction Pics and Logos By RavenX - done by request https://forums.galciv3.com/465362/page/2/#3561110

[Mod] Doctor Whoniverse By Mohobie https://forums.galciv3.com/465960/page/1/

Starfleet Academy Mod By ronnie76 https://forums.galciv3.com/466156/page/1/#3557867

Space Orcs 40K By Lord_Proteus https://forums.galciv3.com/466600/page/1/

Imperium of Man 40K By RavenX  http://www.gamefront.com/files/25046480/Imperial+Faction+40K.zip

 

Custom Race Ship Designs and Templates:



[Mod - Early Release] Star Trek Federation Faction Style Mod By TurielD https://forums.galciv3.com/466782/page/1/#3561080

 

 

I will happily add all custom races and factions as long as they are from any established Sci-Fi show, movie, book series, you name it. No matter how silly or how rare one's choice may be. We might not all want the same races from every show and this thread will give us all the ability to pick and choose the ones we want from their respective posts/threads. This thread is only meant to be a stickied list so we can keep track of those most Scf-Fi fans will want and to have a easy go to reference without needing to wade through the entire history of the modding forums. Steam Workshop may make this redundant at some point, but at least for now and maybe even after that it will continue to be a valuable community resource. This is still a work in progress thread and will be so for the foreseeable future. If I missed yours please post below and I will add it to this post.

Note: Let's see if we can ask nicely and get this stickied for us ;) Please Vote up with a Reply to help us get this stickied. (that way you don't have to flood my karma, I'm Not karma fishing)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Totally Original Races and Factions:

[MOD] Jia Kuja Anomi (A Faction Mod) by Dumhed  https://forums.galciv3.com/464723/page/1/#replies

Sexy Leaders by krbjms https://forums.galciv3.com/466730/page/1/

Gauntlet's Race Mod By Gauntlet03 https://forums.galciv3.com/466227/page/1/

[MOD]Custom Ship Templates Project by CaptainGarand https://forums.galciv3.com/466184/page/1/

GalCiv 2 Mod Items By krbjms https://forums.galciv3.com/466619/page/1/

Lost Worlds By magzh https://forums.galciv3.com/466610/page/1/

New factions for your gaming pleasure By Pierreluc https://forums.galciv3.com/465760/page/1/#3551793

[Mod - WIP] Xitak Commune By In_stasis https://forums.galciv3.com/465801/page/1/

New Race: The Rav A'kell By SaviorSe1f https://forums.galciv3.com/466426/page/1/#3556614

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Colors, Tweaks, Customizations, and Guides:

 

[Guide] Creating Ship Style Sets for Custom Factions By Dumhed https://forums.galciv3.com/465834/page/1/#3553007

MOD - More Planets On Map By BuckGodot https://forums.galciv3.com/466422/page/6/#replies

[Mod | Released] Palette - Ship Appearence Overhaul By MisterSaturnus https://forums.galciv3.com/466774/page/1/#3561130

[MOD] High class starting planet By CaptainGarand https://forums.galciv3.com/466572/page/1/

[MOD] Lavo's Modding Corner By Lavo_2 https://forums.galciv3.com/466067/page/1/

[MOD] Star Systems+ By GloriTiger https://forums.galciv3.com/466330/page/1/ (No DL's yet)

[MOD] Worthwhile Resource Improvements By SadfaceSquirtle https://forums.galciv3.com/466601/page/1/

[MOD] Balance Mod V2.2 (30-05-2015) By DarkNeuron https://forums.galciv3.com/466029/page/1/

[Mods] Sotof's GalCiv3 Mods By Sorentoft https://forums.galciv3.com/465812/page/1/

[MOD] Ship Repair Rates By Sansloi37 https://forums.galciv3.com/466456/page/1/

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Reserved

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Need this deleted

 

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

if you can't download anything what good is this. Star trek had a race where they couldn't communicate with anyone even with universal trAnslaters. Voyager had a dinosaur race. Aliens. Et. Hammerhead from star wars. I also would like to see custom factions not just tv factions. Good idea. Not so good idea without a link to download anything.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 5

if you can't download anything what good is this. Star trek had a race where they couldn't communicate with anyone even with universal trAnslaters. Voyager had a dinosaur race. Aliens. Et. Hammerhead from star wars. I also would like to see custom factions not just tv factions. Good idea. Not so good idea without a link to download anything.


I'm working on the linking now. Can't get the insert/edit link forum function to work. This thread isn't For Downloading. It's a listed collection of Mods done by modders in the community. You go from here to their mod pages and download from the links they provide. It's for going to the Individual Mod's page to find it here in the forums. As new one's are posted old ones will fall back and constantly need bumped up or searched for.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

ok but hopefully someone will make a post where you can download from there.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 7

ok but hopefully someone will make a post where you can download from there.


That's what the modders do in their posts. This post is just so you can find their posts faster. Working on adding more now.

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Mass effects and Dr Who are broken for 1.03. You must roll back to 1.02 to use them.

=1 for sticky

Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Franco, reply 11

Mass effects and Dr Who are broken for 1.03. You must roll back to 1.02 to use them.

=1 for sticky


Good info Frank. We'll have to leave that to the mod creators of course, but good to know going in. I figure mods will stabilize again soon. Something they did in the tweaking of 1.03 last night broke the mods.

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Added a bunch more. Still searching. If I miss anything please reply below where you'd like it added.

Official Universes:

Custom Race Pictures and Backgrounds:
Custom Race Ship Designs and Templates:

Originals:

Totally Original Races and Factions:

Guides, Tweaks, and other misc:

Colors, Tweaks, Customizations, and Guides:


Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for putting all these together Raven.

Reply #15 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Np Ronnie. I'm still adding more as well and as new ones are posted. Also adding in original creations in the second reply and guides and tweaks in the third reply so we can pull everything together nicely.

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

  It's nice to have a one stop place to check out what people are working on, Thanks   :congrat:

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Should probably be stickied. :)

Reply #18 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Sorentoft, reply 17

Should probably be stickied. :)

Sounds like a decent enough idea. :) Thanks for adding mine to the list. One of these days I'll probably clean it up and make it more of a proper mod.  Also gonna have to keep an eye out on those three XMLs to see if SD patches anything in them that I might want to throw in as well.

Reply #19 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yes nicw work,  and it will be work to keep this up to date.   You know this will become obsolete with workshop,  but who knows when that will be.  (est is this month)

 

Quoting Sorentoft, reply 17

hould probably be stickied.

 

agree :thumbsup:    How about it moderators, is it sticky worthy? B)

Reply #20 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting a0152570, reply 19

Yes nicw work,  and it will be work to keep this up to date.   
 


Heh, that's ok, I don't have much better to do. Did the same thing with the idea's section on Elemental. Eventually it will probably be outdated by the workshop and some enterprising person will probably do something similar to this there, but that won't be me. I prefer the forums here. With as fast as things fall back or fall off the forums it's good to keep track of the long term ones here.

Once we get more races and factions I'll break it further by universe. I.E. Trek, Wars, B5, etc etc. Also for the Custom Creations too as even the one I'm using right now doesn't fall under a show. It started off as Iron Sky but as I was watching WW2 docs I started thinking Axis and Allies in Space and then even further into conspiracy themes and time travelling "die glocken" myths and kind of ran with it.

Reply #21 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Franco, reply 11

Mass effects and Dr Who are broken for 1.03. You must roll back to 1.02 to use them.

=1 for sticky

I am awaiting  more information from Franco about this, but It's worth noting that Doctor Whoniverse may not work in conjunction with other mods. Due to certain limitations in the current way galciv3 allows modders to add certain content, several base files are modded. Any other mod attempting to modify the same files will likely cause a conflict. It is my guess that this may be the root of the problem. I have done testing on 1.03 and am unable to locate any issues at this time. Hopefully I will speak with Franco and figure out why it is not working for him.

Reply #22 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Mohobie, reply 21
I am awaiting  more information from Franco about this, but It's worth noting that Doctor Whoniverse may not work in conjunction with other mods. Due to certain limitations in the current way galciv3 allows modders to add certain content, several base files are modded. Any other mod attempting to modify the same files will likely cause a conflict. It is my guess that this may be the root of the problem. I have done testing on 1.03 and am unable to locate any issues at this time. Hopefully I will speak with Franco and figure out why it is not working for him.


I *think* it might have just been the issue with mods being temporarily broken. They might be working for him now but we won't know until he replies.


Added a bunch more to the Compendium here this morning. Enjoy everyone.

Reply #23 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well, RavenX you really have outdone yourself this time.

I had to pause in the cake making that is currently going on over here to post this.

I believe this should probably be sticky-ed though I wonder about the usefulness of sticky-ing this because of workshop.

Although I could see this still being useful with mods that don't work on workshop or aren't transferred over there.

Well,

Cheers!

-Jeff26jeff

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Reply #24 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Nice, thx for putting all together!

Reply #25 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks everyone for your support. A sticky may not be needed now however. Looking at the top Modding Section drop-down we now have 3 new sections of the Modding forums. They even followed by break-down template some :) .

GalCiv III Modding:
 

GalCiv III Balance Mods

GalCiv III Custom Races

GalCiv III Ship Templates

 

Now with these this list and the others like it are pretty much a moot point on needing anything pinned or stickied aside from Guides. All praise the gods of forums organization!!

Thanks again everyone :) Always glad to be of service.