these are the only actual mods on here that *actually* adds aliens, not just humanoid or Terran creatures. what a shame

outer rim is what i was talking about, i don't wanna flood this chat.

If you get permission, see about getting Outer Rim as well, and fix up a few things, such as a lack of animations, and the whole "Flaming Bone Peoples" thing.

Just messaged them today, fingers crossed

@Kite Sergal (Ammonite616)

Were you ever able to get in touch with the maker? He does have an email on his resume.

https://scwatson.artstation.com/resume

thanks Sunconure11, will do in a few days. bit busy rn

@Kite Sergal (Ammonite616)

The maker has a website. Perhaps see if you can find a contact route there?

https://scwatson.artstation.com/

@ S.C.Watson Probably should have at'd you in the below. sorry, not to used to steam comment communications.

Hello. I commented on the discussion posted in the alien suns outer rim, but i thought i would post here in case you are no longer sub'd to that discussion. I managed to animate a handful of portraits from that mod with custom meshes and animations. I have not posted it because you own the work. but i would like to get into contact with you if you want them and if i can work with you.

i would also donate to play this mod again

Very sad to see how things have played out. This mod was my favorite when I started playing Stellaris back in the day. Games changed a lot since then, and I'm not partial to the way it's gone either.

It indeed does not work since patch 3.12.

I'd donate for you to work on this again, some of these portraits are downright indispensable to me now; Fanatic Purifiers just aren't as threatening when they're not tiny puffballs staring straight at the camera.

After patch 3.12, all portraits from mods disappeared. Please update, these species portraits are so cool!

3.12 has broken any portrait mod that is not updated for 3.12. due to the changes Paradox introduced.

unilateralparrot, it's broken for me too.

Is this working per the latest update for anyone? Broken for me.

Thank you, I appreciate you being open to it.

@G_S_Palmer - Not really a fan of the idea, because that's completely the opposite direction for what I had imagined, but it's fine if it allows people to still use the mod. So, it's all good.

I've uploaded the mod that makes the portraits use the vanilla species classes: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3206430951

Hi S.C.Watson, would you be ok with me publishing a mod that changes your portraits to use the vanilla phenotypes (aka, Mammalian, Plantoid, etc)? It wouldn't reuse any of your assets, it would just be a patch that people could load alongside this mod.

As of 3.10 this still works as intended. Thank you for your work!

This mod working for 3.9?

@ S.C.Watson Species of Stellaris has been updated. It includes the animated Alien Suns: The Outer Rim species. Feel free to check it out it and tell me what you think. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961280882

@ Mr_Daniels - please feel free. Link me when you get it done.
@ Rage000 - <3

Hello S.C. Watson! I I just wanted to say that I really love your Alien Suns and Alien Suns: The Outer Rims mods. It really adds a lot of diversity to the alien species you can encounter. I am working on a species mod called "Species of Stellaris" and I would love to implement your creations into it. I was looking if I can be granted permission to use the mods in this way. I was going to attempt to add animations to The Outer Rim aliens to bring them more to life in the mod as well. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

ive been using this mode for years also. My favorite of all time. I have never seen this mod have issues. Still working now and in 3.8 Beta.

@ このきのこ <3

Just wanted to let you know that these are the best species portraits I've found by far.
I want more interesting looking aliens in my sci fi, thank you so much for making these.

this is working fine for me in 3.7.2

@7Mile same, its the weirdest thing lol

@Dph Kraken if possible, is there anyway you could post a copy of the last version that was up before the update? Probably don't have it anymore but I was just curious.

@MasestroPuppy same with me, ive been using this for many years but it just doesnt work any more

I play on an older version of the game (2.1.3) and for some reason this mod doesnt even show up anymore unlike other mods that are updated for more current patches like 3.4, does anyone know why that is?

p.s. I'm not expecting the mod to work anymore lol just curious

Out of 2k hours, this is my favorite mod. Cant play without it

Hi

Is there a way to make it so that vanilla races do not emerge (except for example humans, if you choose them) and that all the galactic races (including the primitives and presentients) are from your mod? I find these non-cartoonish aliens more believable and immersive than 90% of the vanilla aliens.

just so you know, there's been a change to the way ship and army names are formatted, meaning armies and ships using this mod's namelists won't have any

Will "Alien Suns: Atmospheres" be renewed someday? Enjoyed playing the mod when i was younger along with this one. Keep up the great work btw!

@Rev_Enge(spc): export your playset before deleting the launcher file. That way you can simply re-import it afterwards

Is there a way around deleting the launcher file? Not sure if I want to reorder the 50-ish mods across a couple different playsets

Deleting the file works. thank you. I will keep that in mind for future issues

It works now! Thank u so much!!!

That worked like a charm, thanks!

Have you tried deleting launcher-v2.sqlite from your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ folder?
This will clear any saved playsets, but should work to regenerate the mod's descriptor.

Still borked. Maybe, you could just revert to old version? It worked with no issues.

no i deleted the mod off my computer, had issues with steam subscribe not downloading, so went to my collection list and subbed from there. It downloads but still shows a problem with descriptor file

ok

claims that its actually missing. Which is strange considering its in the folder

Alright, the update has pushed out. Tell me if it works now.

@DPh Kraken Basically the mod downloads from steam workshop, and it even has the descriptor.mod file in it. When you run Stellaris it shows that there is a red triangle next to the mod in the list. It indicates that the descriptor file is the problem.

ok changing the mod version in the descriptor file to 2.3 should fix it. I copied the files into a new mod again and that was the only thing I changed and it worked. its either that or an issue with the mod making the ugc_689601294.mod in the documents/paradox interactive/stellaris/mod folder. I dont know how to fix the latter so I would try to just change the mod version number to 2.3 and see if that works. hope this helps.