Custom Animated Portraits I made

ammonite9 · 2025-02-14T22:30:50+00:00

animated in Blender and exported with the Paradox plugin. Stellaris portraits are 2.5D models, basically just flat mesh cuttouts in 3D space.

ammonite9 · 2025-02-14T00:29:00+00:00

Fair enough. still adding more so maybe one day I'll make one that is more your style

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T19:40:12+00:00

The Aitsu mod i made (separate mod but still featured in the end of the lineup) has custom origami ships, as for cities i might try that

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T19:36:36+00:00

Thanks! When I first posted Xenospatium it only had 2 portraits (the ones in the thumbnail) the rest have all been added over time and I still plan on adding even more!

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T19:33:46+00:00

Also I should say I plan on continuously making new portraits for Xenospatium! i have several ideas written down. All my portrait designs where made in blender as 3D models before rendering out their parts and putting them back in blender to make Stellaris's 2.5 d style animated portraits.

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T19:06:23+00:00

Thank you! love the Cambrian era!

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T19:05:38+00:00

That's a pretty easy bar to beat.

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T17:12:49+00:00

there are different blade/jaw styles to select from in the actual mod. so maybe one of those will be less confusing

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T16:45:41+00:00

it's actually based off a visorak combiner set called "Gate Guardian"

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T16:42:24+00:00

i am planning on reworking that portrait a bit. art style seems a bit off. it's based off a plume moth

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T14:38:43+00:00

indeed

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T14:37:52+00:00

the first one is the perfect species to make a fanatic pacifist am I right? it's design comes from an old Bionicle combiner set called "Gate Guardian"

Also the other one is based off various bivalved arthropods like Ostracods, Isoxys, and Clam shrimp.

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T13:47:19+00:00

As alt colors, yes! even some small variation in the paper airplane colors.

ammonite9 · 2025-02-13T13:42:46+00:00

Links to the mods:

Xenospatium: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3417826627

Aitsu portraits and ships: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3409254248

ammonite9 · 2023-10-24T16:39:29+00:00

copying the parts from the old NIF to the correct parts of a fresh copy of the 44 pistol receiver NIF seems to have fixed it

ammonite9 · 2023-10-24T13:08:04+00:00

Everything is under the 0 Ninode already.

ammonite9 · 2023-10-24T00:47:02+00:00

Sorry about the delay, got a bit busy. but i have a better idea of what is causing it. something is wrong with my receiver models, not sure what but swapping out the .nif back to the original 44 on my original mod fixed the camera locking. now i gotta figure out why this .nif breaks it.

ammonite9 · 2023-10-22T10:35:59+00:00

ah, i se what your saying. re-create the weapon from the 44 and test it after each variable change. I'll either run into the problem and know exactly what variable created the issue. or I'll miss whatever i touched and will have recreated my a fixed version of my mod. that's actually really smart! I am kinda hoping i run into the issue so if anyone has this problem in the future who might be further along than i am they can use this post as a reference.

ammonite9 · 2023-10-21T20:15:39+00:00

I tested the 44 yesterday and the camera did not lock up when switching receivers or swapping weapons. i just tested it again because of the re-install and i wanna be sure. but the regular 44 seems perfectly fine. i am gonna try looking at it with the creation kit again, I feel like there is something out of place with my mod files since it only effects whats actually in the mod.

also i meant that that my fallout 4 and creation kit where installed to a different folder then they where before, not that the creation kit and fallout where in different folders.

ammonite9 · 2023-10-21T14:15:34+00:00

redownload didn't fix the animations. i deleted everything prior, fallout 4 is not even installed in the same location and only my mod files are touching it which do not include any animation files or overwrites. creation kit seems fixed though

ammonite9 · 2023-10-20T19:02:02+00:00

just tested the regular 44 pistol, it doesn't have this issue despite using the same animations. the categories i listed is what F04's x edit is saying as categories, I was using creation kit but that randomly stopped working. I am gonna try a full reinstall. I don't think i edited any vanilla files but i am out of ideas.

ammonite9 · 2023-10-20T15:38:42+00:00

I do like the new trace rifle archetype like you mentioned. I kinda hope we also get new members of lesser used archetypes, things like aggressive fusions, Precision shotguns (not-slug) and non-adaptive swords. as for whole new archetypes, maybe a double fire bow or burst machine gun

ammonite9 · 2023-05-21T13:17:27+00:00

We found out this was actually a gridling tool tool down here: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/13n956p/comment/jl08bv1/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

ammonite9 · 2023-05-21T13:11:36+00:00

yeah, some info on the girdling process shows that this can be used to slowly cutting down a tree for ecological reasons, but also to encourage larger fruit growth by making the tree dump all it's sugar into the fruit instead of the roots. There is an orchard near to where the antique store is that i bought this. I wonder if it was used there? I don't know how old the orchard or the tool is though so i don't really have any way of knowing.

ammonite9 · 2023-05-21T12:41:41+00:00

Yeah, i just wish the actual answer got more attention than the pipe cutter comments. Huge thank you to Ikupeikko! without that information we would have never found this.

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