ANNOUNCEMENT:
This mod has been officially discontinued.
A complete rework is currently in development as part of a new species collection.

@javelin55 - While extracting files for the new collection I'm working on, I found the issue you pointed out. It should be fixed now and possible to spawn them as NPC empires.
Not sure, byt they might also count as the Enigma species now.

Anyways, I pushed an update.

@javelin55 Well, the reason they have separate species class is that the vanilla one is blocked from players to use and I didn't wanted to override that one. So I made them a separate species class, which shouldn't be an issue, because my Xenomorph mod has it's own species class and it works all dandy.

I think it might be blocked somewhere else in vanilla files, which aren't override in my mod. Similar to the sound I mentioned about Unbidden.

@alankraskow I had a look of my own to try to see what could be causing this issue, all I can think of is that it might be something to do with them having their own species class, but I've got no clue why that could be the case. Maybe try moving them into a vanilla species class to see if that fixes it? Of course it wouldn't be a permanent fix but it could help identify the issue. I tried that myself but I'm not familiar with Stellaris modding so I couldn't get it to work.

@javelin55 - Yeah I noticed that yesterday when trying to locate the issue. Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out why is that. I don't see anything in the code that could block them from spawning as AI empires. I had to make a new species class for these portraits, because base ones aren't playable. So it should work completely independently even for AI empires. The only thing that comes to my mind is that it might be related to portrait assets file, as that's where the noise for the unbidden portraits is assigned for example. But I don't override that file.

@alankraskow I will make an Empire using one of these portraits, set it to always spawn, and then when it takes me to the galaxy generation screen, they just don't show up. I've tried switching to a different portrait and that fixes it for some reason.

@javelin55 I would need more context. This is not intended by me for sure, so probably some bug. But how you know they can't be used by AI?

I've noticed that Empires made with these portraits can't be used by the AI, why is that?

Added overwrite to enclave species as well, so that they can use new colour variations for their leaders. I haven't tested it properly, and in my current game only teal spawned so far, so I'm not sure if it works fully the way I intended. Please let me know if other colours spawn for you. I might have to dig deeper to force them to use variations, but not sure what else I could change. In worst case scenario I will remove these variations and go back to original red.

It was recently brought to my attention that the original name of this mod could potentially interfere with mod load order. To prevent any issues, I’ve changed the name. Sorry for the inconvenience.

@DripChecker1991 we will see what future brings, but I focus on flavour stuff atm. I know that Ulriquinho is working on some stuff involving these portraits, so maybe he will come up with some fun origins. I will most likely focus on my Eldritch Predators, before anything else.

But thank you for suggestion, will be taken into consideration for sure!

I know you said you didn't have any plans to add anything but a simple origin mods would be amazing! Doesn't have to be anything insane even just a connection to the shroudwalkers and having some opinion bonuses to them would be super thematic.

@ŞРØŘ€βÆŘ117 why? You want to invite me? :D

hello are you a freemason?

@El Apá thank you ^^

10/10

Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to save an empire with these portraits. Should work now.

Yay, I am very excited for this! Thank you for bringing this mod back to life and adding the colours was a cool touch!