Modding the stock sponsors

[zwollenaer]

I apologize if I'm asking questions that are answered elsewhere in this forum. I looked, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

What I'm trying to do should be simple: modding the stock sponsors rather than creating new sponsors from scratch.

All I want to do is change the factions into more recognizable real-world counterparts. For example I want to turn Franco-Iberia into the European Union, and the ARC into the United States.

I was able to find all of the XML files that I needed to change the sponsor descriptions, city names, etc. The only problem I'm having is that I don't know how to change the logos, which I want to change into national flags.

When creating custom factions there are folders such as "icons_atlas", but I'm unable to find these resources for the existing factions. Can anyone help me figure out how to change/replace the stock sponsor icons?

 

[HandyVac]

The texture atlases for the vanilla civ icons are defined in the file "CivBEIconTextureAtlases.xml" under "Gameplay/XML/GameInfo", and the various dds pictures which that xml refers to are inside the compressed folder "UITextures.fpk" under "Resource/dx11".

You'll have to decompress the fpk with a third party tool such as Dragon UnPACKer if you want to open the existing picture files in an art program to use as reference when drawing your own.