stellaris [mod] Calcifire's Portrait Pack

[Kartan1]

6 hours ago, Calcifire said:

Theres a dev out there who was thinkin "HA! yeah... This'll force Cal to add his lil fire sprite boy into the game for me to diddle" Those mother fuckers at Paradox. gdi!!!

 

But in all seriousness. I kinda have a general system for each of the Archetypes. -something human, -something big, -something short. The human one will obviously just be people with flaming hair, tall can probably maybe be those wacky demon bitches from AGONY, and I like the idea of doing something with metallic skin for small. 

 

tbh, I'm also glad they are giving me more that 3 weeks of heads up to work on them in secret.

 

Stop, you had me at "wacky demon bitches from AGONY". I am eager to see what you will cook up for the DLCs.

Maybe a chubby-thicc Shroud-themed species for the Shroud DLC? (shamelessly begging for more thicc bitches, yes)

[QueenPrisma]

All planned out already, sheesh... Looking forward to it don't burn yourself out!

[LuceoX30]

I'm not sure if you're aware, but it seems like you categorised your Oyster as both Molluscoid and Aquatic. A similar thing happening to some of your Machine species, as well as the Witch, Grey, Mutagenic and Baalbuddy species. 

I'm only going to assume it's an intentional choice, unless stated otherwise.

Edited March 30, 2025 by LuceoX30

[PepperoniJabronni]

On 9/7/2023 at 4:35 PM, Calcifire said:

Well I always preferred player expression. So if you go down that tech tree, then yes. I want people to be able to custom build their species. Mutagenic Invaders + Gene Tailoring really ought to just flat out trigger crisis mode for the rest of the galaxy. lol.

Personally, Muta Empathy and Muta Stockholm are my favorite combo. But like, how many games would I have to play in order to get the right RNG drops? I'm not even going to calculate that, I just know it would be take me a few.

 

I apologize if this has been a frequent question but the only thing I can find on the thread is that we should be able to genetically modify, I can't seem to get it to work. Has something changed that I wasn't aware of?

[randomdudeanonymus]

Hello calci, i wanted to play your prescripted empires but i found issues. The empires dont start with the amount of "additional species" in your description with the exception of "Storm Legion". Ivory lineage and green court doesnt spawn the described amount of species, crimson dog tribes and civilian hub network dont spawn with any at all. I suspects its just updates affecting your code as "storm legion" works

Could you plase have a look at this as i would love to play your prescripted empires. Love your mod and thanks so much

[randomdudeanonymus]

Wiped the stellaris folder in documents clean and reinstalled the directors cut. Crimson dogs spawns slave species now but not all of the species in the babe_start_event.txt. Also Green Court species name is "Human" for some reason???

Edited April 1, 2025 by randomdudeanonymus

[randomdudeanonymus]

I messed around a bit to see if this could be fixed and it did work when i forced all the prescripted empires to spawn. Now i get the correct amount of species mentioned in the description and the code. Capital of crimson dogs and green court are visible if i play ivory lineage and vice versa for the other two. Are these all an intentional decision?

Edited April 2, 2025 by randomdudeanonymus

[hexacron]

On 3/24/2025 at 5:25 PM, Calcifire said:

Theres a dev out there who was thinkin "HA! yeah... This'll force Cal to add his lil fire sprite boy into the game for me to diddle" Those mother fuckers at Paradox. gdi!!!

 

But in all seriousness. I kinda have a general system for each of the Archetypes. -something human, -something big, -something short. The human one will obviously just be people with flaming hair, tall can probably maybe be those wacky demon bitches from AGONY, and I like the idea of doing something with metallic skin for small. 

 

tbh, I'm also glad they are giving me more that 3 weeks of heads up to work on them in secret.

 

Hey hey Calc- Ello! Yes I still live! 

But also! bioships and alien bio-horrors and swarm beasties of unimaginably horror are coming!

SO Now is another time for a round of hilarious suggestions from the rando-fando with a pension for the feminine.

 

Once again I am asking for a feminine wide hipped alien race with indistinguishable androgynous features. Now horror themed!  Everything from Tyanidic-xenomorph-swarm alien beasties, to the kind of scorn-esque flesh and bone look. Maybe some Bio-mechanical Glados. Maybe some (league of legends) belveth alien girls where they only *look* humanish in shape. Eyes where their breasts are, stomach being a mouth and the head being a fake human face/lure. All good options.  

 

I know I'm out here trying to appeal to the monster-fucker demographic for the next art set you cook up- and maybe something a little for my tastes too. Traps and Femboys are my biggest weakness after all- personally speaking. 👀

 

But good to see things going strong as always.

Edited April 3, 2025 by hexacron

[Katz]

On 4/1/2025 at 11:19 PM, randomdudeanonymus said:

Hello calci, i wanted to play your prescripted empires but i found issues. The empires dont start with the amount of "additional species" in your description with the exception of "Storm Legion". Ivory lineage and green court doesnt spawn the described amount of species, crimson dog tribes and civilian hub network dont spawn with any at all. I suspects its just updates affecting your code as "storm legion" works

Could you plase have a look at this as i would love to play your prescripted empires. Love your mod and thanks so much

 

 

A few days have to pass for the pops to be generated. And only pops whose empires exist on the galaxy map can be generated. If the game does not spawn the empire, you eill not get the corresponding pops.

[Calcifire]

On 3/30/2025 at 8:19 AM, LuceoX30 said:

I'm only going to assume it's an intentional choice, unless stated otherwise.

Yes, intentional

 

On 3/31/2025 at 10:13 PM, PepperoniJabronni said:

I apologize if this has been a frequent question but the only thing I can find on the thread is that we should be able to genetically modify, I can't seem to get it to work. Has something changed that I wasn't aware of?

On my developmental version i keep to myself I have addressed this in "hopefully" a functional and customizable way. Basically, I have to fight the AI to stop them from doing dumb things, so I can't give us unlimited freedom. But the current version I have on my machine... I'm mostly happy with... since us modders have collectively shelved our idea in favor of waiting for teh future bombshell Stellaris update to break everything, I could at least share the updated file here in the thread as a stop gap.

babe_mutagenic_traits.txt

Just dump that bad boy into the "traits" folder of my mod. It should help.

 

23 hours ago, hexacron said:

Once again I am asking for a feminine wide hipped alien race with indistinguishable androgynous features.

XD I hadn't thought much about the bioships yet. I've been focused on the Infernal Species Pack atm, but it's something to keep on the backburner. As far as monsters are concerned, heres the sketch I got so far for the AGONY bitches (hopefully that uploaded correctly, this website is kinda wonky sometimes)

Spoiler

 

15 hours ago, Katz said:

A few days have to pass for the pops to be generated. And only pops whose empires exist on the galaxy map can be generated. If the game does not spawn the empire, you eill not get the corresponding pops.

Correct, and I'm glad you noticed that cause I'm not 100% certain that I ever explained that... I'll have to give my mod description a quality pass once the Stellaris version 4.0 drops

 

Anyway, everyones. Heres another teaser of what I've been cooking up for the Infernal Update (again, what is going on with this site, I hope that uploaded)

Spoiler

I hope the dark spots on her hair convey the sense of there being a more deadly radiation side to whats going on with her head. Like the light is leaving burns on the camera's sensors

[firewolf63]

Nothing wrong with advertising your VN where you post your stuff, you have that right as an artist IMO, like if you had it in the mod page.
but sticking a advertisement into the loading screens without saying anything on your mod page honestly upsets me, I don't speak for other but I find it hard to not hate people that do this type of thing.

Edited April 6, 2025 by firewolf63
forgot one word.

[Calcifire]

On 4/6/2025 at 3:07 PM, firewolf63 said:

Nothing wrong with advertising your VN where you post your stuff, you have that right as an artist IMO, like if you had it in the mod page.
but sticking a advertisement into the loading screens without saying anything on your mod page honestly upsets me, I don't speak for other but I find it hard to not hate people that do this type of thing.

Yes, but it's all free. I get what you're saying, but in my head, I didn't think it was a big deal because I'm not selling any of it. I do all of my content for nothing. idk if I'm crazy here. Maybe I'm crazy here, idk. I never stopped to think about it before.

[firewolf63]

1 hour ago, Calcifire said:

Yes, but it's all free. I get what you're saying, but in my head, I didn't think it was a big deal because I'm not selling any of it. I do all of my content for nothing. idk if I'm crazy here. Maybe I'm crazy here, idk. I never stopped to think about it before.

Yes, you do, you have no obligation to do this mod, and if it was just in the mod page, or its own image packed into Zip outside the mod id be fine, its just jarring getting an advertisement mid load, and I apologize I know I came off rude, I'm just already on edge with every other software I use trying to shove ads down my throat in more intrusive ways.

At the end of the day its your mod and I can't make you do anything, and if others really really don't like it, they can just do like me and remove the .dds I'm just voicing my honest opinion, as rude as it is. 

[towboat421]

On 11/30/2024 at 3:37 AM, Calcifire said:

::SIDENOTE::

I went back and updated the BugHunters Hall of Fame at the bottom of my mod page... It made me really Nostalgic so I wanted to say a few words for the old schoolers

 

@Wobobo123 You'll always be a top poster for being there at the early days. You literally influenced the content of the mod with your fan work and I'll never forget that.

@Railgunner2160 You've been around since 2021, but you didn't get your first bug report in until 2024. LOLOLOLOL Thanks for coming along for the road.

@unwashed biomass Haven't seen you in a while but you were a huge help in the early days, plus @SohCahToa too! Haven't seen y'all in a while but haven't forgotten.

@Trigoniris Thanks for all the tech support!!!

And Thanks to @Madmonth for the Financial support!!! XD At this point dude, you could ask me to add anything you wanted to the mod and I'd do it. You're my favorite Taiwanese boy. Thanks for translating my mod into Chinese back in the day. OH, plus that was also before I started dipping my toes into event modding. lol. If you ever come back around, I wouldn't dare ask you to translate the mod now. IT WOULD BE TOO MUCH WORK for anyone.

Respect to @DeltaZone @WolfOfPasloe @Hutawa for being there since 2021.

 

Small shout out to other early folks that I haven't seen in a while.

 @hexacron @towboat421 @MstrN @Lewd Chaos @Megumin. @b00tyblues @QueenPrisma

Thanks for visiting this small corner of the Internet Everyone. It means alot to me.

 

Don't feel bad 2023-and-on gang. You guys will get there someday.

Though I do want to be sure to at least mention @DecaySociety22 @Armchair @Katz and @Viking_Berzerker

 

You know? Hopefully I don't die in a car accident and take all my unreleased content to my grave (like episode 2 of my VN *cough*). So here's to the future, everyone. I know it's not New Years Eve yet but, Cheers!!!

 

 

Hadn't been bit with the stellaris bug for a while but i figured i'd check in, quality work as always calc keep it up. And thank you for giving us this amazing mod

[Madmonth]

On 11/30/2024 at 4:37 PM, Calcifire said:

::SIDENOTE::

I went back and updated the BugHunters Hall of Fame at the bottom of my mod page... It made me really Nostalgic so I wanted to say a few words for the old schoolers

 

@Wobobo123 You'll always be a top poster for being there at the early days. You literally influenced the content of the mod with your fan work and I'll never forget that.

@Railgunner2160 You've been around since 2021, but you didn't get your first bug report in until 2024. LOLOLOLOL Thanks for coming along for the road.

@unwashed biomass Haven't seen you in a while but you were a huge help in the early days, plus @SohCahToa too! Haven't seen y'all in a while but haven't forgotten.

@Trigoniris Thanks for all the tech support!!!

And Thanks to @Madmonth for the Financial support!!! XD At this point dude, you could ask me to add anything you wanted to the mod and I'd do it. You're my favorite Taiwanese boy. Thanks for translating my mod into Chinese back in the day. OH, plus that was also before I started dipping my toes into event modding. lol. If you ever come back around, I wouldn't dare ask you to translate the mod now. IT WOULD BE TOO MUCH WORK for anyone.

Respect to @DeltaZone @WolfOfPasloe @Hutawa for being there since 2021.

 

Small shout out to other early folks that I haven't seen in a while.

 @hexacron @towboat421 @MstrN @Lewd Chaos @Megumin. @b00tyblues @QueenPrisma

Thanks for visiting this small corner of the Internet Everyone. It means alot to me.

 

Don't feel bad 2023-and-on gang. You guys will get there someday.

Though I do want to be sure to at least mention @DecaySociety22 @Armchair @Katz and @Viking_Berzerker

 

You know? Hopefully I don't die in a car accident and take all my unreleased content to my grave (like episode 2 of my VN *cough*). So here's to the future, everyone. I know it's not New Years Eve yet but, Cheers!!!

 

 

Man~I can't believe I miss this comment !

Surely I can help you now, my years marine job is over months ago. Now fighting for degree.

[Madmonth]

On 4/9/2025 at 3:12 AM, Calcifire said:

Yes, but it's all free. I get what you're saying, but in my head, I didn't think it was a big deal because I'm not selling any of it. I do all of my content for nothing. idk if I'm crazy here. Maybe I'm crazy here, idk. I never stopped to think about it before.

The old time, artists sign name on their paintings, so grandpa and grandma can ask for this special mark to know "Wow, this cool guy make artwork here! "

And now it's can be the URL or QRcode,so it's not bad idea, be free.

[LuceoX30]

Hey, couple questions, are there some "canon" details about the species you make? Your work is really high quality with how the designs seem to have their own storytelling.

 

My next one is, are there any "full" shots of your portraits, not just 3/4 ones? I'd be interested in seeing the full designs of some of your races.

 

Last, do you take commissions? I'd like to give you money for my imp character to appear in your art-style, sometime in the future.

[Calcifire]

On 4/17/2025 at 6:45 PM, LuceoX30 said:

Hey, couple questions, are there some "canon" details about the species you make? Your work is really high quality with how the designs seem to have their own storytelling.

I've wanted to make, like, a lore library world building project for a while. BUT like everything else I make, I don't release alpha versions or what not until its 90% done. So all I can say, is that it will be a long long while before I release anything. Woops! lol. just the way I am.

 

On 4/17/2025 at 6:45 PM, LuceoX30 said:

My next one is, are there any "full" shots of your portraits, not just 3/4 ones? I'd be interested in seeing the full designs of some of your races.

Sometimes, very rarely, I will have my sketch on paper of what I'm gonig to add, and it will be a full body. I know the Sylvan and Kitty Cats, have full body sketch art on my harddrive, but its rare for me to bother with somethign no one will ever see... Funnily enough, the Giant lizard grills do have heads, they are just too dang tall for the screen. I know that pic is floating around in this thread somewhere.

 

On 4/17/2025 at 6:45 PM, LuceoX30 said:

Last, do you take commissions? I'd like to give you money for my imp character to appear in your art-style, sometime in the future.

Nah, I prefer to do all of my erotica for free. I used to do contract sfw stuff for ad agencies, but not anymore. That was soul suck work, and it made art lame. I love being able to do all my own stuff. Makes me enjoy the process more. Now this isn't a hard NO, cause I'm liable to take cool idea and impelement them for free. I know you got a male OC, which is not my jam as a boring CIS HET MALE, lolol. So soz, probably wont happen.

[LuceoX30]

3 hours ago, Calcifire said:

Nah, I prefer to do all of my erotica for free. I used to do contract sfw stuff for ad agencies, but not anymore. That was soul suck work, and it made art lame. I love being able to do all my own stuff. Makes me enjoy the process more. Now this isn't a hard NO, cause I'm liable to take cool idea and impelement them for free. I know you got a male OC, which is not my jam as a boring CIS HET MALE, lolol. So soz, probably wont happen.

I wasn't expecting you to draw any wobbly bits, so don't worry about sexual preference in that regard. I'd just want you to draw my character in your style - the only input I'd give is the scenario and pose, while letting you have the creative freedom (and my money).

 

Besides, I like your work too much to not pay for, mate.

[hexacron]

On 4/3/2025 at 7:38 PM, Calcifire said:

 

 

XD I hadn't thought much about the bioships yet. I've been focused on the Infernal Species Pack atm, but it's something to keep on the backburner. As far as monsters are concerned, heres the sketch I got so far for the AGONY bitches (hopefully that uploaded correctly, this website is kinda wonky sometimes)

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ha, nice. Agony bitches were a mood

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Is there a discord server where I could get some help? Several mods that work for others do not work for me at all 

[pleasedontbetaken2]

Dear Calcifire, why must you deny me choosing this as my starting rulers portrait?

 

I want to be able to choose the scientist and commander portraits for my ruler soooooo bad

[Viking_Berzerker]

Why dosen't Breeders, Milk Cows and Sex Slaves count as Sex Jobs?

[Calcifire]

On 4/29/2025 at 8:29 PM, pleasedontbetaken2 said:

Dear Calcifire, why must you deny me choosing this as my starting rulers portrait?

Way too much on my plate. XD this mod has gotten way too big for. Modding for live service games is a blessing and a curse. I'll look into the Human starting picks. But like most of us in teh community, no real changes or hotfixes are gonna go live until after Stellaris 4.0 unless its DIRE.

 

On 5/2/2025 at 10:50 AM, Viking_Berzerker said:

Why dosen't Breeders, Milk Cows and Sex Slaves count as Sex Jobs?

I'm gonna assume I musta bugged something. HOPEFULLY after LV gets updated for Stellaris 4.0, I won't make the same mistake twice. If I broke something. My bad.

 

OH, in other news, even if I'm getting panic attacks thinking about having to rebuild my mod for the next major update... That doesn't mean I have to stop making art.

Spoiler

There was a pretty positive reception for more chubby grills, and I'm not against that life so... yeah... If the devs are forcing my hand and I'm going to have to include myself into the game for the Infernal Update, then I may as well bless the mess. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. #GenderBentChubbyCalOfficial

[vanas_1111]

21 hours ago, Calcifire said:

Way too much on my plate. XD this mod has gotten way too big for. Modding for live service games is a blessing and a curse. I'll look into the Human starting picks. But like most of us in teh community, no real changes or hotfixes are gonna go live until after Stellaris 4.0 unless its DIRE.

 

I'm gonna assume I musta bugged something. HOPEFULLY after LV gets updated for Stellaris 4.0, I won't make the same mistake twice. If I broke something. My bad.

 

OH, in other news, even if I'm getting panic attacks thinking about having to rebuild my mod for the next major update... That doesn't mean I have to stop making art.

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There was a pretty positive reception for more chubby grills, and I'm not against that life so... yeah... If the devs are forcing my hand and I'm going to have to include myself into the game for the Infernal Update, then I may as well bless the mess. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. #GenderBentChubbyCalOfficial

I have some experience in software dev and modding in general. Is there any particular way to contribute that you'd prefer?