Modding planetary improvement icons

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I've started to get tired of seeing the same buildings in every game, and have created a couple of new improvement icons I want to use. The problem I'm having is that the only way I can get them to show up in the game is to swap them out for icons in the main game folder.

Is there a way to get new icon images to work from the mods directory? I don't want to create any new improvements, just change out the icons for the standard buildings.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I posted this over four hours ago, and it still doesn't show up in the forum. What is up with that?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
why not create a "mod" folder that has the original game with the "added icons"?
seems like an easy copy and paste job....

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, I did that before I started playing around with images in the game folder. I was just wondering whether, since there is a mods folder in My Games that works well enough with xml files (like Anomalies.xml), is there a way to work in building icon mods there, too? I think I've tried everything, just trying to see what others have done.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Put your picture inside the folder, and then mod the "planetary improvement.xml" so that the facility in question point to your picture instead of the old ones. Then toss that modded xml file into a mod folder and choose to use it.