Clean Paint for Starships
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #28 of 36 Visuals and Graphics mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Removes the heavy paint damage and gashes from ships, especially fighters.
What is this Mod?
This mod alters textures to clip out the heavy damage effects seen on every fighter in existence so that they don't look like they have been used as bumper-cars for 30 years. All of the actual texture edits were done by RangerDulann, pre-NMS 5.x mod pak assembled by Exosolar. Textures redone and packaged for NMS 5.x+ by Babscoole.
Philosophy
The paint damage is ugly and illogical.
Known Side-Effects
None.
Modified Files
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\HQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. DDS
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\HQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. MASKS. DDS
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\HQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. NORMAL. DDS
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\SPECIALHQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. DDS
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\SPECIALHQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. MASKS. DDS
TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\FIGHTERS\SHARED\SPECIALHQTRIM_METAL. TRIMMETAL. NORMAL. DDS
✦Exosolar's and Babscoole's Other Mods✦
Installation
Extract to GAMEDATA\MODS
Credits and Special Thanks!
Hello Games for making the wonderful, vast, and fun game, No Man's Sky!
monkeyman192 for the MBINCompiler and his continued efforts to keep it up-to-date
Tub0Crisco for the No Man's Sky Mod Station A. K. A. NMSMS
Big thanks to any and all of you lovely people who offer donations! It is greatly appreciated, and will help me buy lunch while I'm busy being a broke college student! :D
And, of course, all of the other modders who make mods too! It is very common that I inspect the work of other modders to learn how things are done. RangerDulann, WoodyMontana, jasondude, Gumsk, Mjjstral, moddinaccount, Devilin Pixy, saa044, and others have all helped me learn how to mod effectively! Without the other people mentioned here and their mods and applications, I would not be able to make any mods at all!
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants"
-Sir Isaac Newton
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Nomanssky Mods
- Author
- RangerDulann Exosolar and Babscoole
- Version
- 6.45
- Downloads
- 8,472
- Endorsements
- 279
- Category
- Visuals and Graphics
- Created
- 11/3/2019
- Updated
- 7/18/2026
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