Argo Crew Panels

Description

Replaces the Argo’s visible 3D crew models with camera-facing 2D comms panels while preserving normal hover, click, camera, and dialogue interactions.

This mod was originally made for players using custom character portraits. Custom portraits can look great in dialogue, but the Argo still displays the original 3D crew models, which can create a visual mismatch. Argo Crew Panels replaces those 3D models with customizable 2D artwork so the characters you see around the ship can better match your chosen portraits.

The mod includes ready-to-use comm-panel artwork, or you can replace the included images with your own PNG/JPG portraits without recompiling anything.

Installation instructions

Requires ModTek.

Extract the archive directly into your:

BATTLETECH\Mods

After installation, you should have:

BATTLETECH\Mods\HideBridgeCrew

BATTLETECH\Mods\HideBridgeCrewLightsFilter

No compiling or additional setup is required.

The mod already includes default comm-panel images. If you want to use your own artwork, replace the images in:

BATTLETECH\Mods\HideBridgeCrew\Portraits

using the existing character filenames.

Main features

• []Replaces Argo crew models with custom 2D comms panels [/]

  []Includes ready-to-use comm-panel artwork [/]

  []Supports replacing the included artwork with your own PNG, JPG, or JPEG images [/]

  []No recompiling required to change artwork [/]

  []Keeps normal hover, click, camera, and dialogue behavior [/]

  []Supports Darius, Sumire, Yang, Farah, Kamea, and Alexander [/]

  []Automatically hides crew meshes that load or reappear later [/]

  []Filters hidden game dummy objects that would otherwise create duplicate panels [/]

  []Tested across Act 1 and Act 2 Argo layouts [/]

• []BATTLETECH [/]

  []ModTek [/]

  []No save-game edits required [/]

  []No compiler or manual DLL setup required [/]

Thanks to the BATTLETECH modding community and the developers of ModTek and Harmony for making runtime mods like this possible. Also thanks to everyone who has documented BATTLETECH’s Unity and

SimGameCharacterbehavior over the years.