Mods / re-skin to make appearance less depressing

[Dead-Duck]

I know the depressing artwork is for thematic effect, but would be nice to sometimes play with less depressing artwork. Any mods or re-skins out there to do so that don't affect gameplay?

[guts2501]

Alien Biomes changes the landscape and there are other like krastorio that add and change a bunch of stuff. just to swap out the sprites for the machines though? I haven't seen any.

[DCYW]

Try downloading CleanMap mod, clears map around you.

[Modran]

Originally posted by DCYW:

Try downloading CleanMap mod, clears map around you.

Unfortunately that has nothing to do with the topic.

[DCYW]

Originally posted by Modran:

Originally posted by DCYW:

Try downloading CleanMap mod, clears map around you.

Unfortunately that has nothing to do with the topic.

Oh never mind then.

[Fishy]

There was several Christmas themed mods. Turned power poles into candy canes and items into presents and other things.

[KatherineOfSky]

Maybe just gain a different perspective? I don't find the artwork depressing in the least. It's quite beautiful. Factorio is game about possibilities and building, not depression.

[aaaaa]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

Maybe just gain a different perspective? I don't find the artwork depressing in the least. It's quite beautiful. Factorio is game about possibilities and building, not depression.

I think op is talking about the general aethestic of the game, as in, he doesn't like getting sunburns running around the dusty alien wasteland.

I second alien biomes. I don't mind the default art but it really changes the feel of the game when you spawn in a snow biome or build on top of a desert with pink sand.

[Dead-Duck]

I'll check alien biomes out. To be clear, I am just looking for non-gameplay changing mods that just change the appearance. I also appreciate the original artwork, but it would just be nice to be able to look at something else. It's like how you can appreciate the soundtrack of a game, but after a bajillion hours you might want to listen to something else while you play.

[gust334]

I appreciate you're just asking if a reskin is out there. I have played games that offered reskins, either from the developer or from third parties. If reskins were available for Factorio I might try them, but I'm also really liking what Wube has put together.

I think the answer is no, and further that it would be unlikely due to the extraordinary amount of work it would take.

There are something like 830MB+ of png files for the artwork in F1.1.

Almost every entity is pictured from at least four rotations. Some have additional png files for light maps, glows, shadows, etc. Those are the simple ones. More complex ones like belts have hundreds of images, representing each animation step, in all the various rotations, etc. Even more complex ones like the biters have even more frames, for all the various non-90-degree rotations they have, plus animation for walk cycles, etc. And most entities also have "remnant" versions, what appears on the ground after they've been attacked and/or destroyed.

The png artwork comes primarily from renderings of 3D models, which are then skinned with the rust, dirt, rivets, etc. and carefully lit by artists. Wube's models, skins, and light source setup are not released with the game, only the resulting renderings.

It would be a heroic effort to repaint that all by hand to make a bright modern planet Bespin vibe. And it would take artistic talent.

It would be an even more heroic effort to make all new 3D models, texturize them, and then render said pngs from that; you'd have to reinvent much of Wube's toolchain, and it requires different talents in addition to art.

IIRC there is a clone that has that white, clean, Bespin aesthetic, named something like shapez. I haven't played it and I don't know if the gameplay and tech trees are as deep as Factorio, but I think it has belts and machines of some sort.