Reworked Air Designer: Expanded Graphics (compatible with Road To 56 and Vanilla Navy Rework)

Reworked Air Designer: Expanded Graphics

This is technically a fork of a submod of a Choo Choo's fork of the original Reworked Air Designer by Freezer that is compatible with R56, R56 Expanded and R56 Expanded + Vanilla Navy Rework. ** It is a standalone mod, do not try to use it alongside any other "Reworked Air Designers" **

Load order and required mods

Air Designer - the mod itself Tank Designer - optional, can be on top instead VNR RT56 compatch - necessary if you use VNR Vanilla Navy Rework - optional RT56: Expanded - optional Road to 56 - necessary

Developer's notes

For whatever reason pre-existing CAS and naval bomber designs appear to have no role when editing them. ** This has no impact on gameplay ** ~~ (I think?) ~~ and appears to be just a visual bug that is probably caused by the fact that R56 changes some fundamental stuff about airframes. Designing airplanes from the ground-up or editing your own designs causes no such issues.

Features

Apart from all the changes added in the original Reworked Air Designer, some numbers have been tweaked, more specifically:

• High Octane Fuel now costs 0 IC to produce, but makes planes burn even more fuel and requires 15 XP to add.

• Drop tanks now weigh less and give agility to somewhat balance the increase in weight (since they are supposed to be, you know, dropped before entering combat), but now require slightly more fuel to operate

• Equipment slot dedicated to wing-carried drop tanks now allows a single central drop tank as well

• Central drop tanks now give 75% of the wing drop tanks, with their price and weight adjusted accordingly since those often were larger than wing-carried drop tanks

• Equipment slot dedicated to defensive turrets on small airframes now allows small modules as well

Furthermore, I am happy to announce that the first large content update is finally here! Centerline-mounted weapons are now available for light airframes, meaning:

• Small airframes now have centerline-mounted weapons available in the first two weapon slots, alongside regular weapons and motorcannons.

• Available centerline weapons vary based on your engine and airframe choices, with radial engines and more advanced airframes allowing for heavier weaponry

• Centerline mounts are split into primary (1st weapon slot) and secondary (2nd weapon slot), with heavier primary weaponry blocking the installation of secondary weapons on 1936 and 1940 airframes

• Twin-engine light fighters can install an unlimited amount of centerline weapons compared to the single-engine ones

Planned Features

I am planning to do at least a couple more things besides supporting the mod as updates come out:

• Possible changes to the medium airframes to allow the installation of centerline weapons since those are technically fighters too.

• A rework of CAS modules to allow more flavor when creating CAS instead of simply slapping as much small bomb bays/butterfly bombs/canons as possible

Compatibility matters

The mod should be fully compatible with R56 and R56 expanded, Vanilla Navy Rework and my R56 version of the "Expanded Tank Designer - Even More Fixed!+" (these names are honestly getting ridiculous). It should theoretically be compatible with anything else that works with R56. If you try to launch this mod with some other mod and experience a crash when starting a new game, please tell me the name of that mod in the comments and I will try to make those two compatible.

Credits

This mod obviously uses the wonderful "Reworked Air Designer" by Freezer and also takes some of the added plane sprites from the wonderful mod called Black Ice. None of those explicitly prohibit using parts of their mods on their modpages, but if either Freezer or the BICE team want me to remove some parts/the entire mod from the workshop, I will do that.