Quality Glow


See the quality of your buildings at a glance. Every uncommon, rare, epic or legendary building gets a marker in its official quality colour: outline, ground glow or large badge. Options: minimum quality shown, always or Alt mode only, include logistics or not, opacity, thickness, and a per-player hotkey (Shift+Alt+Q) to show/hide. Works with modded qualities.

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Quality Glow

See the quality of your buildings at a glance. In vanilla, a legendary assembler looks almost exactly like a normal one: the only clue is a tiny badge in a corner. Quality Glow marks every uncommon, rare, epic and legendary building in its official quality colour, so a mixed factory becomes readable instantly.

Why it helps

  • Spot where your legendary machines are, and put your best modules there.
  • See which buildings are still normal and should be upgraded first.
  • Catch a blueprint that placed the wrong quality.

Features

  • Four styles: outline (default), ground glow, large badge, or outline + badge.
  • The outline has a dark backing, so it stays readable on any terrain (even orange legendary on desert sand).
  • Minimum quality: for example, only mark epic and legendary.
  • Always visible or Alt mode only.
  • Logistics skipped by default: belts, pipes, inserters, poles, walls, lamps and rails are not marked to avoid clutter (can be enabled).
  • Per-player hotkey to show or hide the markers (default Shift + Alt + Q).
  • Change settings in-game: all settings are map settings, no restart needed.
  • Markers follow building, rotation, flipping, cloning and upgrades, and vanish with the building.
  • Uses the quality prototypes' own colours: modded qualities work too.
  • Fully localised in English and French.

Settings (Settings → Mod settings → Map)

  • Marker style — Outline, Ground glow, Large badge, Outline + badge.
  • Display — Always, or Alt mode only.
  • Minimum quality marked — Uncommon and above (default), Rare and above, Epic and above, Legendary only.
  • Also mark logistics — off by default.
  • Opacity — default 0.9.
  • Outline thickness — default 3 pixels.

Requires the Quality mod (included with Space Age). Without it, the mod simply does nothing.