[mod] Vanilla Framework Continued

[ModderWhoModsThings]

10 hours ago, Astralbody13 said:

Do you plan on adding infernal portraits in a future update?

As Railgunner said, the next update (coming out soon) will move the lava dragons from lithoid to infernal. Additionally, we have a hellhound infernal species in the works. 

[Hupfer3]

Hello,

Does this mod have any specific DLC or version requirements? I am on the latest Stellaris version and the replacer version of this mod, yet I see a lot of vanilla portraits in my game.

I have done some testing with only this mod installed and all species pack DLCs disabled, yet when I generate an 18 AI galaxy and use observer mode, most of the AI empires use vanilla portraits, and some are blank/use the one from the last empire you clicked on.

I know that machine portraits are not fully replaced, but there are others that show up in my game too. In the main menu, during empire creation, I can only select portraits from your mod as expected.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

[ModderWhoModsThings]

1 hour ago, Hupfer3 said:

Does this mod have any specific DLC or version requirements? I am on the latest Stellaris version and the replacer version of this mod, yet I see a lot of vanilla portraits in my game.

I have done some testing with only this mod installed and all species pack DLCs disabled, yet when I generate an 18 AI galaxy and use observer mode, most of the AI empires use vanilla portraits, and some are blank/use the one from the last empire you clicked on.

I know that machine portraits are not fully replaced, but there are others that show up in my game too. In the main menu, during empire creation, I can only select portraits from your mod as expected.

There are no DLC requirements for this mod, and we only support the latest version of Stellaris. Please double check that you are using the replacer version, and that you have the VF Portraits mod active as well (some species may appear blank without VF Portraits). It is possible that there were some code changes in the latest Stellaris update that broke something, if so I will have that issue fixed when I release the next VF update tomorrow. 

[Atlas1998]

On 12/10/2025 at 10:22 AM, ModderWhoModsThings said:

As Railgunner said, the next update (coming out soon) will move the lava dragons from lithoid to infernal. Additionally, we have a hellhound infernal species in the works. 

How would someone go about moving them on a local copy, if you're willing to share that information?

[ModderWhoModsThings]

18 hours ago, Atlas1998 said:

How would someone go about moving them on a local copy, if you're willing to share that information?

I'll be making the change today, so you don't need to worry about it. For future reference, species class is determined by portrait sets. Portrait sets are defined in the "common/portrait_sets" folder, and they group species together. Each portrait set contains a list of species, along with a class (such as Reptilian or Infernal). All species in the set may be used for random generation, and will spawn as the defined class. In order to change the class of a species you must remove it from its original portrait set and add it to a portrait set that has the desired class. 

[Shad0wC00kie]

the Lith05 set (fire elemental) would also fit for the infernal category, i think

regardless, love the mod and hoping for a potential psionic update

[DarkDragon269]

Your code is so straight foward that it helped me make my own portraits for personal use!
I just suck at removing backgrounds so I stuck with a cozy room backround 😛

So kudos on your work mate!

[ModderWhoModsThings]

13 minutes ago, DarkDragon269 said:

Your code is so straight foward that it helped me make my own portraits for personal use!
I just suck at removing backgrounds so I stuck with a cozy room backround 😛

So kudos on your work mate!

I'm glad that you got some extra use out of the mod! I am also the developer of the Stellaris Portrait File Generator, a tool used to automate the management and production of the portrait files that are used to assign portraits to species. Even if you aren't interested in the tool, you can download the "VF Kit" file to find up-to-date code templates that are basically the portrait file code but with placeholder values that can be find/replaced with your portraits. 

[DarkDragon269]

22 hours ago, ModderWhoModsThings said:

I'm glad that you got some extra use out of the mod! I am also the developer of the Stellaris Portrait File Generator, a tool used to automate the management and production of the portrait files that are used to assign portraits to species. Even if you aren't interested in the tool, you can download the "VF Kit" file to find up-to-date code templates that are basically the portrait file code but with placeholder values that can be find/replaced with your portraits. 

Will check it out! also of my pictures I use pngs, since its more easy than to conver to .dds and for automating the part of setting up the portraits I use excel, and concatenate the code to my liking

[sillyyiffybilly]

in version 3.3.0/2.9 (replacer and portraits respectfully) there are currently no selectable male portraits. when selecting species leader gender the options "random, futa, and male" only produce futa portraits while "female" does produce female portraits. (no buff lizard men ;-; )

[ModderWhoModsThings]

On 12/23/2025 at 10:55 PM, sillyyiffybilly said:

in version 3.3.0/2.9 (replacer and portraits respectfully) there are currently no selectable male portraits. when selecting species leader gender the options "random, futa, and male" only produce futa portraits while "female" does produce female portraits. (no buff lizard men ;-; )

Brief testing in the empire creator shows that the portrait selection is working fine with the VF gender traits. Have you tested this with only VF+dependencies installed? If so, please describe the issue in greater detail. Are you having this problem at initial empire creation, or is this an issue during gameplay? Does the species in question have VF gender traits that may be interfering with another system, such as the LV leader gender policies? 

[sillyyiffybilly]

1 hour ago, ModderWhoModsThings said:

Brief testing in the empire creator shows that the portrait selection is working fine with the VF gender traits. Have you tested this with only VF+dependencies installed? If so, please describe the issue in greater detail. Are you having this problem at initial empire creation, or is this an issue during gameplay? Does the species in question have VF gender traits that may be interfering with another system, such as the LV leader gender policies? 

yup no thats my fault im guessing my load order are messed up on my main modlist. when isolated its works great sorry for wasting your time thanks for the help tho

[CatAoi]

Hello I noticed the murder drones portrait is not showing up when you go synthetic ascension on synthetic fertility.

[ModderWhoModsThings]

7 hours ago, CatAoi said:

Hello I noticed the murder drones portrait is not showing up when you go synthetic ascension on synthetic fertility.

I'll take a look at the code and see if I can find a cause.

[noma2456]

Thank you for the amazing mod! I’m really enjoying it, but is there any way to prevent male portraits from appearing? I’d love to fill my galaxy with only female or futanari characters. Thank you for your hard work!

[Yourmamu]

On 2/7/2026 at 2:09 AM, noma2456 said:

Thank you for the amazing mod! I’m really enjoying it, but is there any way to prevent male portraits from appearing? I’d love to fill my galaxy with only female or futanari characters. Thank you for your hard work!

I think LV has zero cost traits you can add to your species. And beyond that I think it also adds "leadership gender" which you can toggle in the policies. I could be wrong about which mods add it though.

[ModderWhoModsThings]

On 2/7/2026 at 3:09 AM, noma2456 said:

Thank you for the amazing mod! I’m really enjoying it, but is there any way to prevent male portraits from appearing? I’d love to fill my galaxy with only female or futanari characters. Thank you for your hard work!

As yourmamu stated, the Lustful Void mod has multiple features for single-gender species. VF Continued is designed to work with LV and it us recommended to use both mods together, even if VF still works on its own. 

[k2jackal]

Any news on the update?

[ModderWhoModsThings]

On 2/18/2026 at 3:07 PM, k2jackal said:

Any news on the update?

Progress has been very slow due to my current circumstances, the little modding time I have has been spent on improving my published modding tool for Stellaris, once that's finished we have a few new species that can be added to VF. I'm still working on the mod but unfortunately I don't have as much free time as I used to. Things might get better in a few months, though. 

[SirSwordsalot]

Question, what are the sources for the mam16 portraits? I absolutely love all these and I'd like to know if higher resolution versions exist anywhere. If not, then can anyone tell me the right terms to search for to find similar works? While I'm picky about AI, the ones that I could discern as AI I still love regardless and any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edited February 21 by SirSwordsalot

[Yourmamu]

23 hours ago, SirSwordsalot said:

Question, what are the sources for the mam16 portraits? I absolutely love all these and I'd like to know if higher resolution versions exist anywhere. If not, then can anyone tell me the right terms to search for to find similar works? While I'm picky about AI, the ones that I could discern as AI I still love regardless and any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a few of the original anubian images that I made, but the main bulk of them were lost because the original mega that I used to submit them to ModderwhoModsThings has been shot. I hold copies on my computer of the species that came after, but the main chunk of the originals are gone. For this, I apologize. I do however have a select couple that I kept for metadata purposes though. I'll dm them to you.

[ModderWhoModsThings]

On 2/20/2026 at 9:25 PM, SirSwordsalot said:

Question, what are the sources for the mam16 portraits? I absolutely love all these and I'd like to know if higher resolution versions exist anywhere. If not, then can anyone tell me the right terms to search for to find similar works? While I'm picky about AI, the ones that I could discern as AI I still love regardless and any help would be greatly appreciated!

I only recently started keeping higher-quality copies of images, so the vast majority of species only have what you find in the mod. Newly added species have uncompressed png versions archived, and I will look into a workflow that will allow us to store original source, edited png, and finalized image file (compressed for the mod) while keeping track of related images. 

[SirSwordsalot]

22 hours ago, Yourmamu said:

I have a few of the original anubian images that I made, but the main bulk of them were lost because the original mega that I used to submit them to ModderwhoModsThings has been shot. I hold copies on my computer of the species that came after, but the main chunk of the originals are gone. For this, I apologize. I do however have a select couple that I kept for metadata purposes though. I'll dm them to you.

 

20 hours ago, ModderWhoModsThings said:

I only recently started keeping higher-quality copies of images, so the vast majority of species only have what you find in the mod. Newly added species have uncompressed png versions archived, and I will look into a workflow that will allow us to store original source, edited png, and finalized image file (compressed for the mod) while keeping track of related images. 

Unfortunate but hey, some are better than none! Thank you very much to the both of you for the speedy replies.

[sillyyiffybilly]

intent on adding more volcanic portraits? maybe like volcanic version of other species like horss? :3

[Yourmamu]

On 3/3/2026 at 9:21 PM, sillyyiffybilly said:

intent on adding more volcanic portraits? maybe like volcanic version of other species like horss? :3

Im workin on the MGE hellhound

Edited March 7 by Yourmamu
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