I had a go at creating one improvement to see how it would look. I'm no good at making 3-D looking objects from scratch, so I found some good pictures of motorcycle engine parts and decided to make a factory icon out of one of them. Here's what I ended up with:
Each icon has a corresponding query graphic that shows up in the bottom corner when you select the building, so I made one of those using a color-enhanced Venus surface picture as the backdrop:
I replaced the industrial center image in my icons folder with the new factory and viddied my home planet in the game. The glow is done with different settings, but I like the scabrous, radioactive look it gives them:
If you want to try it out for yourself, go into the folder C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Gfx\Improvements\icons, find the file BasicFactory.png, and rename it to something else. Then save the first image above with that name in that folder. Do the same thing in the query folder with the second image, if you like. Then start a new game and voila! You have evil factories. Muahahahaha!
Of course, this also gives the other races evil factories, but that's all right, because soon they will be yours anyway!
Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.
