nice species design

update

Now put them in "Undertale" robes. I need Toriel.

When is the next update for this mod.

the peglaci cannot take any traits as the are categorized as neither biological nor mechanical pops

First, the furries of starbound stalked me and followed into stellaris! But now, now, the Decent races are here! What next? Vore Mod in skyrim? Frackin' Universe in Civilization? WHEN WILL IT END!

update. now.

update?

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Update?

Update?

@dogkisser I hope you`ll update this mod, couse I like your idea!

Saw this and had to download because of my starbound nostalgia.

Alright, fixed it, I think! Some weird stuff happened a few updates back, apparently. The most annoying part is for whatever reason I can't seem to get these guys to display within the Mammal category due to a known glitch, so they've got their own category. If I can find a way of putting them back with Mammals I will, but until then it'll have to do!

As I said in my other portrait mod I just released, I think getting these guys animated might be a bit of a lost cause - simply cannot work it out! Any future mods I do will use an already-animated base to avoid this issue! Sorry for radio silence, I was waiting for the Banks update and only recently decided I couldn't wait!

Suprised nobody has made the vanilla Starbound races for Stellaris yet.

Hey I know these guys, I saw a mod of them on Starbound.

This mod has not been kept up to date and now causes CTD issues upon empire creation while selecting both City and Ship appearance. You cannot make ANY empires while having this mod enabled as a result.
If it is not updated soon, i will be forced to unsubscribe. - Which i really do not want to, as these things are adorable.

To clarify, i have isolated the mod completely, had it be the only mod enabled just to make sure its not a mod incompatability, it CTD's on its own.

I really do hope you're working on getting this back into starbound.

I miss my violent "peacekeeping".

ill have to keep this in mind for when i get stellaris lol.

side note: any chance of getting peglaci on starbounds steamworkshop?

Is it possible for you to impliment the other Starbound species too?

@Ryuujin Yeah.. true.. Sorry Dogkisser, I didn't know the Famed Ryuujin was even on steam!

@Fornsworth: My magic 8 ball says "It's very likely".

I suggest taking any further discussion of that to my profile page though instead of spamming poor Dogkisser (Djinn? :p) with unrelated posts.

@Ankerion Soon.

But it's surprising some people are going to @dogkisser first instead of Ryuujin.

we need Avali as well =D . I know that species by Starbound (one of my famous btw), Good to see em in Stellaris.

Fornsworth - I was thinking about it, but I both doubt that I could do them justice and wouldn't want to step on the creator's toes. You may be better off texting him about it, I'm afraid!

Hey dogkisser, whats the chance of also making an Avali mod?

Ha, thank you OSB. They are based on a race I made for another game, but for THAT game I picked a bunch of weird animals to pull traits from. Goat, Polar Bear, Wolf, Rabbit, etc. I wanted them to be cute but unsettling, so I'm glad that was conveyed! As far as this game, they're assembled from a combination of assets from vanilla races as well as photos of the above animals.

As far as getting them animated, it's starting to look like -no one- knows how to do it properly yet. All animated races currently are recolors or retextures of existing 'models' - effectively drawing different pictures on the paper dolls included with the game. If (when) I make another race mode, I'll probably do exactly that, because it gives you good results without having to go through the hassle of learning Maya.

There's something very unsettling about these creatures. A slightly demonic look to them. WIll aboslutely be using these guys for my Slave empire primary species

Oh, nifty. One of my favorite Starbound races makes another appearance!

Oh, cool, Peglaci are here too ^^ they were already nice to play in Starbound, i wonder how they are here ;)^and i really, really like the look they have here :D It's awesome !

Ah right, they appear way smaller in the UI. Well take us along the journey then, I am also thinking about trying my hands at an animated portrait (the technique looks very intriguing).

McDougal - yes, but likely when I figure out how to get it animated. I consider all assets 'placeholder' at the moment, and the way I have it set up means I'd have to edit 60+ images. Once it's set up properly, that drops down to, like, 7. In game, due to the size of the images, the edges are nearly invisible, I've found.

Lookin splendid. Can you rework those hard edges though?

Huge fan of the peglaci,j ust wanted to let you know that.

oh hey man, fancy seeing you here. I remember using your mod in an early version, it was cool.
I was in the Custom Races Coalition, which I think you were too, but my mod died hilariously early because everyone I was working with dropped out and I can't be bothered making all the AI and ship sprites from scratch. Oh well, maybe I'll push for release when the game does.

Cool art!

Namelist done, and they should show up on the main species select page.

Fix worked great. Honestly i like seeing it in the mammilian section but id understand why youd move it. Works perfect

ya man no problem like i said great race card Thanks for the upload

Yeah, I put it in another category so it'd be easier to find, but I bet you any money that's why it's crashing.

edit: Yep, totally why. Reuploaded. Thanks for the heads up, guys!

this mod seems to crash to desktop whenever I try to select a city type

Still not animated, but added male and female Peglaci, six different colors each, and five sets of clothing. The way I added the clothes is -definitely- not the intended or even a sensible way, but it looks good ingame. The downside is that when you're creating your initial leader you have 32 phenotypes per gender! Yikes! Either way, I'm satisfied with it for now. I may add more clothing, but first up is finishing off the name list. Once that's done, trying to figure out animation once more!

I loved these in Starbound gonna have more fun in stellaris!!!

Oh, I know - the static pictures in the mod are actually just flattened, they have multiple different pieces on different layers that I can use to articulate and animate them. Where reverse-engineering would be useful is chiefly in how to code it all into the game. Copying from the in-game assets is useful, but having something modular and separated into a mod makes it much easier to determine how to get everything to fit seamlessly into the game.

Would be difficult to reverse engineer someone else's work due to the way animations work. Whilst they look 2d, the animated figures are actually 3 Dimensional, with skeletons rigged to layered panes. Here's a few screenshots that might help you understand what's going on:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?attachments/03_maya_character_cutup-jpg.174537/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?attachments/05_character_rigged-jpg.174539/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?attachments/04_character_rigged_side-jpg.174538/

Looks complicated but it's actually pretty simple stuff, tutorial here:

http://www.stellariswiki.com/Portrait_modding

Hope that helps

My priority is to get it animated, but once that happens (fingers crossed) I have assets for different genders and hair, as well as clothing. Unfortunately, without an updated tutorial or (ideally) someone else's succesful animated custom race to reverse-engineer, it'll take a while!

I love well-defined custom race mods. It's fun adding someone else's creations to my galaxy (ala Spore) and then seeing how long it takes to enslave/destroy/vassalize them.

Also, I just want to point out to @Tsrintox that there is a slight difference in the horns already.

Use your mod in starbound :D. I also recommend you add some difference to male and females, and slightly different coloured coats. Great job on the art by the way!