have to say I really appreciate this mod ,it has added a delightful amount of variety to my game ,it has even helped me differentiate between a few similarly named Hivers in my group

https://youtu.be/7vrePfpPPYk
made you a video bud :)

-also for anyone who wants different eye colors you're basically adding 10 times the textures.
lets say you want 4 colors. blue, red, green, yellow. theres 600 new textures without eye colors. multiply that by 4. so 2400 textures. thats just for one sub race. now multiply that amount by each subrace. soldier, drone, prince, times 3 for each race. that's 12 sub races. that's somewhere around 25,000 textures. give or take. you'd have like a 10gb mod just for hiver textures

I got a couple other hiver mods and wish I could slap more paint on them now, these are very cute additions to the gaggle of fogmen and western hivers. Thank you for this contribution.

I'd also be interested in other eye colors. I don't think it would need to be all of the textures since the non vanilla eye colors could be rarer anyways and avoid the 4x size problem.

@weisspure Oh my bad, I also have another Hiver facepaint mod that features deep blue and dark red eyes and have been using it for so long I thought they were vanilla options lol

Hi do you think you could create patch for add the paint to the custom hivers from the mod Dark Hive and Ashen hivers ?

Okay, thanks!

@Theo I anticipate it increasing loadtime during a new save like any other character creation options would but beyond that, nothing I know of. I ran it find on a steamdeck

Hi, does this affect game performance in any way?

@Kodo, which eye colours were you thinking? It might have to be a separate mod because each eye colour is a new head / texture, so if I did the 3 additional eye colours Faces+ does (or similar as I don't want to steal textures from anywhere but vanilla kenshi) it would make this modpack 4x the size, which I don't mind doing, I just don't want someone wondering why their steam workshop has queued up a 3.7 GB download. Or were you thinking eye colours from cute hive or somewhere else?

Would it be possible to add in the other eye colours for the facepaints? Currently they all use the default green Hiver eyes. I know this is a really small thing though so totally understand if it's not worth the hassle.

nice mod

@Buzzardboy, I know it's feasible to make it so only players could use this texture but it'd mean setting all non-pc hivers to ignore all modded character creation options. It does also mean though you can apply textures once your recruit them and take them to the plastic surgeon and other modded options would re-appear. One downside is idk if it would properly randomise the hivers then, it might, or it just might force them all to be the exact same height and slider positions etc.


But to make a long rambly answer shorter, yes I'll make it if you want it knowing that they won't ever use 'Cute Hiver' faces etc in the wild, you'll always have to go plastic surgeon to get them applied and they *might* look less unique than ever (before you've recruited them).

Awesome! Especially love how the paints look on Southern Hivers. Are you considering making a player-only version as well?

Buddy these are really, really nice. You did fantastic work my man!

@Wirewing Ok! Thanks for checking, I intend to start a patch this weekend assuming I have time, I'll credit you for requesting the patch and for the legwork you did to check/get permissions in addition to Azazzelz for the original mod.

@Starempire42, thanks for saying so. I think I should probably make a poll and see how people feel about it overall. I like the picture too but wouldn't want to turn anyone turned off from my mod simply because they felt the picture might give them a false impression of what to expect or because they simply do not like AI.

@weisspure Azazzelz approves of doing anything with their mods, if credited for their work. Their approval is on the cute hive modpage comments.

@weisspure personally I like the thumbnail it suits it very well

@Scar I used it as a placeholder that stuck because to be honest, all my in-game screenshots ended up too lossy or looked bad when compressed down to the FCS 1MB limit so I gave up and didn't want to spend too much time editing something together when the mod was otherwise ready for release. That and I genuinely found this image charming but I see where you're coming from: when I look at my 'Eyejab' in game the profile picture doesn't do it justice.

really cool mod but i'd reccomend changing the mod workshop thumbnail, really undermines the quality of what youve done here with the AI generation up front like that

yup, those too xd

@Aitor I think you mean the couple dozen other hiver mods

nice, now i just need to wait so a madman makes a compatibility patch with the dark hive

@Wirewing, afaik Cute Hive uses different heads and possibly new meshes, so even if this mod automatically painted cute hivers faces (it won't, it works by adding new heads also) they'd come out looking weird anyways. Most likely if you run both you'll see a mix of tattooed and cute hivers out in the world.

If you want to ask the mod author behind cute hive for permission for me to alter their work and make a version of their mod where cute hivers can pick face paints I'll get it done (probably as a patch that requires both).

But if I'm gonna spend 12+ hours on a new mod I'm going to have to set the precedent the requestor reaches out to the mod author, otherwise I'm going to have to subscribe to *lot* of steam threads as time goes on.

@g0suke, @brickhead, glad you both like it! Truth be told I'd be happy if this mod just existed but I really, really appreciate the positive feedback from peeps like yourselves. It makes the hard work worth it and I'm glad to see the positive reception it's getting just a couple of hours into being on the workshop.

Anyone try this with cute hive?

was thinking about how i wanted more options for hiver face paint when looking at the limited amount of ones provided by the radiant faces mod literally last night. okran blessing me perhaps.

excellent mod !! any love for the hives deserves praise. long live the queen