A Treatise On Custom Banners

By Ove Gjedde Charles Edward Stuart

( [KOS] Kingdom of Scotland | https://bank.carrd.co/ )

There's a fair chance that you will by now have seen images where a player has a flag
on their ship that is not the flag of their nation. This is because of a client-side
modification to the game that in no way affects gameplay. Other players cannot see
your flag unless they are using the same modification as you. One of the perks to Naval
Action being entirely hosted and calculated on a server (down to the water and waves)
is that it largely, if not completely, eliminates client cheating. Because of that, rules
regarding what's done client-side are more lax, as it cannot affect other players.

Here's how to change your flag.

Things you will need:

 Naval Action.
 An image editing program. (This guide uses paint.net, which you can find here. )
 A Unity explorer. (This guide uses UnityEX, which is harder to find. Any Unity explorer will
work.)
 Time and patience.

Step One:
Open your archive explorer and navigate to your Steam directory,
and from there to \steamapps\common\Naval Action\Client_Data\. Make a copy of
"sharedassets0.assets" and throw it somewhere you can find it if you want to undo your
customizations.

Open "sharedassets0.assets".

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Step Two:

Find your nation in the list, and Export it as a .dds file. UnityEX does this automatically with the
"Export with convert" option. This author suggests sorting the archive by Name to save time.
(Nation flag filenames will be provided at the end of this guide.)

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Having exported the national flag, we now need to navigate to the raw .dds texture and make the
edits we desire.

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I don't like the Danish flag very much in its original state, so we're going to improve upon it.

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Discontinuity warning. I'm not
going to go into how to use an image editor, as I suspect people who have gotten this far know
how to use one. But a few decent tips I have are: Do not stray from the resolution used by the
game, or your flag will get cut off; and everything past pixel 422 on the x axis will be disregarded.
Try not to forget to add a texture to your flag. Simply searching "Transparent flag texture" on
Google will typically get you a good selection to pick from. Once you're done creating or
choosing your custom flag, proceed to Step Three below.

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Step Three:

Having now made the edits I desire, we need to get the file back into the Unity archive as a .tex
file again.

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Assuming we left the flag with the same name in the folder it was
exported to, we can just hit "Import all files" in UnityEX and launch the game. Done.
Please note, again, only you (and players with the same modification) can see your custom
national flag. It will appear on all ships that are of your nation, or join a battle on your nation's
team.

Index of file names:

France - flag_0006_Fr.tex
Espana - flag_0005_Sp_00001.tex OR flag_0005_Sp.tex
Pirates - flag_0011_Pirate.tex
Great Britain - flag_0003_UK_white.tex
VP - flag_0010_Dutch.tex
Denmark - flag_0009_Denmrk.tex
Sverige - flag_0007_Sweden.tex
USA - flag_0001_US_v2.tex
Russia - russian_empire.tex
Prussia - prussia.tex
Poland - polish.tex
Neutral - flag_9999_NoTeam.tex

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If you have questions about this guide, or anything else,
please contact me either through the forums, in-game, or on Discord at:

Charles Edward Stuart#5482

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Are you able to change any of the flags on the fore mast or main mast as
well? and what about sails, have you tried to change skin on those?

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On 7/26/2018 at 2:22 AM, Wyy said:

Are you able to change any of the flags on the fore mast or main mast as well? and what about
sails, have you tried to change skin on those?

I'm currently under the impression that all the nations share the same generic signal flags, so while
it might be possible to change them there would be no way of guaranteeing they appear on one
ship or another, etc. But it's possible to change them, yes. | Sails are all using the same generic
texture, so I don't think they can be made national edits, but it is probably possible to change some
things on them using the same method.

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Excellent guide to performing the process, thanks for sharing o7

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On 7/26/2018 at 2:22 AM, Wyy said:

Are you able to change any of the flags on the fore mast or main mast as well? and what about
sails, have you tried to change skin on those?

I think that would be somewhat more difficult as those ones are randomly chosen each battle I
believe. And are different for each client

@Ove Gjedde I assume if I change my British flag to something then I would see ALL British
ships with the same flag?

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On 7/27/2018 at 10:42 AM, NethrosDefectus said:

@Ove Gjedde I assume if I change my British flag to something then I would see ALL British
ships with the same flag?

That is correct. I suggest keeping a backup of the original file on-hand, so that they can be easily
swapped out when you don't want to see your countrymen with the same flag.

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