@UltraEmailMan sure; I feel it's pretty self-explanatory, but I can answer any questions you might have

@Leaguenet

I am interested in trying to continue support for this mod. Would you be willing to DM me on Discord to talk about how this mod works? I think I have a rough idea after going through the xml, but it would be useful to go over specifics with you.

My username and pfp are the same on discord as they are on steam, and you can find me in the Rimworld server.

@Witch ~ Good. Too bad there's no alternative. Wish Oscar just released his FA retexture as a stand-alone static face retexture.

everyone stoppin using facial animation :(

This mod is the only reason i keep facial animation

Anyone willing to take it over? Fuck, I would actually pay for this mod to be kept up to date.

No

can you make a patch for "rim-gnoblins" and "Boglegs"?

Although I don't play FA anymore, thank you for making this mod,

I could never abide by the anime style myself and always used FA with this or that replacer (mostly Vanilla Expanded FA), but if that's your goal, I'd say Gloomy Face Mod comes pretty close - and non-animated face retextures don't really need anything to support xenotypes, as custom heads just work out of the box.

Honestly, I couldn't care less about animations themselves.
I only used FA because it's the only face retexture mod that had a (this) patch that supported xenotypes from mods such as Alpha Genes.
And now that the support is over and I already see some face being borked, me fucking sad because there're literally 0 alternatives. Guess returning to disgusting plain vanilla faces in the only option left

What he said.

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Facial animations mod itself is a great concept, but the authors continued refusal to add the most barebones compatibility made me stop using it. Can't even turn it off correctly for many xenotypes, ending up with a mess of face parts.

Thanks for what you did up until now, though!

A shame, really. I really hope someone takes over the mantle of this

nooooo

"this mod will no longer be updated"
IT'S OVER
>IT'S OVER
IT'S OVER
>IT'S OVER

This mod will no longer be updated. I stopped using FA myself and have zero interest in updating this anymore. If anybody else decides to continue updating this, good for them.

Are the wolves from Anthrosonae supposed to have eyes on their snout?

That's the way nose rings work for them unfortunately, not something I can fix.

I'm having the same problem as @JoeOwnage

weird double face action on this minotaur: https://i.imgur.com/5S37zpL.png

I cry every time I check the list and see Ferian and lapelli races still not updated to 1.5 :(

BetterLoading is an actively malicious mod that is absolutely not recommended to use in modlists of any substantial size, as it interferes with A LOT of other mods

@Leaguenet, I've already found the reason.
One of these mods (most likely the first one or in combination) does not load the heads of pawns (some xenotypes)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1999454301

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2574315206

@Fang you do realise that this is as vague a report as you could possibly make? Can you please point me to what specifically seems to be broken.

@Fang glad i wasn't the only one

Some xenotypes have lost their heads, poke me in the solution to the problem if you've come across it.

Using VE Genie and noticed that the Head mask renders above the face in the colonist bar at the top and in the new colony startup screen if you pick a Genie as your starting colonist - in both cases making the pawn look like it's wearing a little flesh balaclava. Looks fine in-game. Not make-or-break at all but thought you'd want to know!

Would be great to get a fix for Forsaken eyes

fun fact, I was wrong, it seems like whole Fauns head is just putted on top of the normal head, which means you will see default eyes too without animations, but for some reason you can see mouth just fine.

It's putting two heads on each other, when you have Faun, you can see his normal head shape, but around his jaw you can also see normal head's line. On top of that, from the side you can clearly see how one head is on top of another. What i tried to do is to change to different shape, still same issue, UNTIL I removed head itself, when head is set to Blank, you can see Faun as it should (nearly, there's weird spider web at front of his eye when looking from side, No its not tattoo sadly)

Could we get this Roo's Faun Xenotype into the mod?....

could you make an patch for the AnthroGenes mod

[2/2] I encountered this in my heavily modded playthrough, but I did also test on a new save with only the required mods (and a camera mod so I could zoom in enough to see their eyes) to make sure it wasn't a mod conflict. That said, it has been a while since I did a clean install, so there could be some left over junk files doing something weird. Please let me know if this is just a me issue.

Hugslib log just in case: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/d83c1c11e62283552a642c13576d0034

[1/2] I'm running into an issue with the head and eye genes from Outland - Genetics. I haven't tested every head gene, but all of the ones I did test have disabled rendering for all eye genes. This includes eye genes that have certain head gene prerequisites such as the Monocular head and eye or the Arachnid head and eyes.

I see in your screenshots that the example of the Monocular head has a red eye, so I'm assuming an update of one of the mods since then has changed something which caused the eyes to stop rendering.

hey so forsaken are in the alpha genes now so... are they gonna get updated?

deep black skin gene (Alpha Genes) seems to turn heads white for me.

If they use B&S there is nothing for me to patch - B&S selectively disables animations on heads where it doesn't make sense, and this is more or less what I would have done too. So if some mod uses B&S framework (and was smart enough to actually use its features), there is simply no need for me to step in with anything.

Arrr so that mean you would not be able to do Star Wars Xenotypes. was going to suggest adding that to the list , but its uses big and small framework. Thsi mod works for nearly all the Xenotype on there, but does not seem to work for the hutts.

Big and small handles their own compatibility from what I know.

could you make an patch for the big and small mods?

@Aquilathestone deleted the patch on my side, seems to no longer be relevant

@Halfelfaedyn done

Could Onca and Uncia be added?

This is great, I had some weird situations XD

@Leaguenet Thanks for the response. Yeah, deleted it fixed the issue. They did implement something (If I use the big and smalls, I get the FA eyes on the pawns) but honestly TBH I think they look better with nothing. They're skeletons, I'm not sure I prefer them with anime eyes hahaha.

@Schadock [The Angeloids] I'll look into it at some point

@Aquilathestone you can try deleting GeneDefs_Profaned.xml in this mod's folder; if they have implemented something on their side, I'll simply remove it with the next update.

Really essential mod. Thanks for making it.

I have an issue I'm hoping to find a fix for: This mod appears to have an incompatibility with the Profaned Xeno. Profaned uses 'Big & Small Genes and More' to add FA support. I've figured out that while B&S will add support for FA for Profaned, with this mod installed the bodies of Profaned are invisible. If I just go ahead and disable B&S and go into FA settings to disable it for Profaned, the bodies of the Profaned are simply invisible. If I remove their 'rotten flesh' gene, the body appears, but is pure white, lacking texture. I'd love to find a fix for this issue. I don't think I can play without FA, I don't know it makes the pawns so much more personable. But all the Profaned are floating heads LOL.

is it possible to do a patch for the bogleg xenotype? the facial animations of the eyebrows dont show up all the way

OHHH i literally only had them in my colony sorry

Please note that for yttakin specifically, as indicated in the mod's description, there is a separate thing that covers them: steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3224761741

Due to it being out there, I didn't include yttakin support in mine.