Choosing A Species Portrait

[ComradeWinston]

Is there a mod that lets you change a biological species' appearance? Some random alien's portrait suddenly overtook my beautiful species.

[Half Phased]

Are you doing the horizon signal event chain, that’s one of 2 events in the game that can change a species portrait; and it only changes the portrait in the same category (mammalian to mammalian).

If you want to revert, you’ll have to take bio ascension, that unlocks some new more powerful traits and the ability to change the portrait of a subspecies, so you can just make a new subspecies with the original portrait.

[ComradeWinston]

Originally posted by Half Phased:

Are you doing the horizon signal event chain, that’s one of 2 events in the game that can change a species portrait; and it only changes the portrait in the same category (mammalian to mammalian).

If you want to revert, you’ll have to take bio ascension, that unlocks some new more powerful traits and the ability to change the portrait of a subspecies, so you can just make a new subspecies with the original portrait.

Interesting. It only converted part of my species or at least one subsect. Although I had no idea bio portraits could be changed, evolution's a tad bland compared to moving ♥♥♥♥ with your mind and becoming a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terminator.


P.S. Still rather just have a mod that turns it on for any amount of genetic tech.

[Half Phased]

Originally posted by ComradeWinston:

Originally posted by Half Phased:

Are you doing the horizon signal event chain, that’s one of 2 events in the game that can change a species portrait; and it only changes the portrait in the same category (mammalian to mammalian).

If you want to revert, you’ll have to take bio ascension, that unlocks some new more powerful traits and the ability to change the portrait of a subspecies, so you can just make a new subspecies with the original portrait.

Interesting. It only converted part of my species or at least one subsect. Although I had no idea bio portraits could be changed, evolution's a tad bland compared to moving ♥♥♥♥ with your mind and becoming a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terminator.


P.S. Still rather just have a mod that turns it on for any amount of genetic tech.

When you get the event pop up, you get to choose between converting your whole empire, or trying to contain the effect to just your Homeworld. To fully prevent the change, you have to execute the scientist responsible when they first undergo the change.

[ComradeWinston]

Originally posted by Half Phased:

Originally posted by ComradeWinston:

Interesting. It only converted part of my species or at least one subsect. Although I had no idea bio portraits could be changed, evolution's a tad bland compared to moving ♥♥♥♥ with your mind and becoming a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terminator.


P.S. Still rather just have a mod that turns it on for any amount of genetic tech.

When you get the event pop up, you get to choose between converting your whole empire, or trying to contain the effect to just your Homeworld. To fully prevent the change, you have to execute the scientist responsible when they first undergo the change.

Why wouldn't I want several free planets? Plus all those yummy traits. I simply want a mod that lets you choose the portrait of your squishy pops without having to invest precious ascension perks.

[Half Phased]

Originally posted by ComradeWinston:

Originally posted by Half Phased:

When you get the event pop up, you get to choose between converting your whole empire, or trying to contain the effect to just your Homeworld. To fully prevent the change, you have to execute the scientist responsible when they first undergo the change.

Why wouldn't I want several free planets? Plus all those yummy traits. I simply want a mod that lets you choose the portrait of your squishy pops without having to invest precious ascension perks.

You can reject this change of portrait and still complete the horizon signal campaign, at this point progression is based on MTTH events, not a contiguous chain, so you’ll still get the loop feed spiral hub and loop temple.

[Azor]

Originally posted by ComradeWinston:

Is there a mod that lets you change a biological species' appearance? Some random alien's portrait suddenly overtook my beautiful species.

You can do it without a mod by picking the Evolutionary Mastery ascension perk, which allows you to change any species' appearance to another of that species archetype (e.g. you can change an avian portrait to any of the avian portraits). It requires the Utopia DLC.

[Azor]

Originally posted by ComradeWinston:

P.S. Still rather just have a mod that turns it on for any amount of genetic tech.

idk look it up on steam workshop, or google. Surely you'll find what you want