stellaris [mod] Parasite Portraits, Loading Screens and Traits - by Apollo - ON REWORK

[ApolloFra]

On 8/1/2025 at 4:43 PM, XavierMace said:

 

For the record, I'm fine with my images being reused as they are as stated AI generated.  But most non-AI artists frequently aren't, especially without credits.

I don't want to do a rent on the usage of AI, but my mod is based on artist works and I don't plan to change it. Having both AI and non-ai will cause debates and disagreements on a personal project of mine.

I am not against AI, I'm not using it for the coherency of this mod.

And I do know I'm not responding to your original quote ahahah

Edited August 3, 2025 by AxeApolloFra

[Sieker]

Out of curio, what is the sauce on that animated title image on the download page for this?

[ApolloFra]

17 hours ago, Sieker said:

Out of curio, what is the sauce on that animated title image on the download page for this?

Rule 34 - 1girls alien (franchise) animated breast expansion breast inflation breasts clothing facefuck facehugger female interspecies lara croft lara croft (classic) monster monster on female oral penetration pikotime rape shirt spread legs tomb raider tomb raider (classic) | 13577228 /

 

Have a good time !

[Sieker]

Thanks. That was what I needed to track down the artist, Pikotime

[Akashi_1944]

This work fine with Lustful Void?

[ApolloFra]

It works !

[Frostbites]

Whats the difference between the legacy and full edition zip files? 

[SkyrimLover43]

Hey, sorry to bother you. I am new to lewd modding for Stellaris. How do I install your mod?

[ApolloFra]

On 2/6/2026 at 7:51 AM, Frostbites said:

Whats the difference between the legacy and full edition zip files? 

Hello, Legacy mods are from my old version of the files, so there's different files of a lower quality. 

I plan to release the reworked edition when I'll finish working on them as I post updates on my discord !

[ApolloFra]

20 hours ago, SkyrimLover43 said:

Hey, sorry to bother you. I am new to lewd modding for Stellaris. How do I install your mod?

Don't be sorry for bothering me ❤️ 

So, with my files, you need to copy and paste them (both the mod folder (unzipped) and the .mod file) into your paradox Stellaris mod folder !

Feel free to dm me on Discord if you need any advice !

[Frostbites]

Hey not sure if this is on my end or the file download itself but despite turning on the mod for loading screen it doesn't show, even if it's the only mod active. Not sure if something isn't getting downloaded or it something was forgotten with the download link, could you look into it please? I downloaded the full edition.

[ApolloFra]

3 hours ago, Frostbites said:

Hey not sure if this is on my end or the file download itself but despite turning on the mod for loading screen it doesn't show, even if it's the only mod active. Not sure if something isn't getting downloaded or it something was forgotten with the download link, could you look into it please? I downloaded the full edition.

I've tested it recently and it worked just fine. Know that it doesn't replace ANY base loadscreens, it only ADDS.

 

 

Here's my path to put the two files there, make sure they are here and that you have selected the good playset (which has the mod activated)

[Frostbites]

On 2/14/2026 at 4:17 AM, ApolloFra said:

I've tested it recently and it worked just fine. Know that it doesn't replace ANY base loadscreens, it only ADDS.

 

 

Here's my path to put the two files there, make sure they are here and that you have selected the good playset (which has the mod activated)

I've done all that, placed it in the correct file path and have the right playset active. However, it says it's not on disk and I can't figure out why. I am also aware that it only adds loading screens but even if that's the only mod active on that playset I only get stellaris loading screens that came with the game. Before hand with the mod active it would only be the parasite loading screens getting showed when launching the game. I've placed a screenshot in this message for assistance, I noticed that the other two files have a "mod" file both outside of the file folder as well as one inside the folder, but the loading screen only has one inside of the folder and not a "mod" file outside of it like the other two as shown in the screenshot. The other two files work just fine, but I can't get the loading screen mod to work. Also, what's shown in the screenshot is all that's gets download from extracting the loading screen file for me.

 

 

Any advice since this issue is looking like it's on my end?

[ApolloFra]

32 minutes ago, Frostbites said:

I've done all that, placed it in the correct file path and have the right playset active. However, it says it's not on disk and I can't figure out why. I am also aware that it only adds loading screens but even if that's the only mod active on that playset I only get stellaris loading screens that came with the game. Before hand with the mod active it would only be the parasite loading screens getting showed when launching the game. I've placed a screenshot in this message for assistance, I noticed that the other two files have a "mod" file both outside of the file folder as well as one inside the folder, but the loading screen only has one inside of the folder and not a "mod" file outside of it like the other two as shown in the screenshot. The other two files work just fine, but I can't get the loading screen mod to work. Also, what's shown in the screenshot is all that's gets download from extracting the loading screen file for me.

 

 

Any advice since this issue is looking like it's on my end?

 

It's so weird, because on my end I have the file...

 

Then I've went into the extracted folder

 

 

I've clicked on the folder inside the extracted folder

 

 

The .mod file is here

 

 

[ApolloFra]

6 minutes ago, ApolloFra said:

 

It's so weird, because on my end I have the file...

 

Then I've went into the extracted folder

 

 

I've clicked on the folder inside the extracted folder

 

 

The .mod file is here

 

 

 

I'll drop the .mod file for you, try to put it in your /mod folder in Stellaris to hot-fix it

Apollo's Parasite Loading Screens Pack - Full Edition - 0.1.zip

[Frostbites]

On 2/16/2026 at 12:03 AM, ApolloFra said:

 

It's so weird, because on my end I have the file...

 

Then I've went into the extracted folder

 

 

I've clicked on the folder inside the extracted folder

 

 

The .mod file is here

 

 

 

 

So update on my issue here, just a fyi I'm so confused on why this is the issue, but I think I partially found the problem I just don't know why. The hot-fix you gave didn't work sadly so I began trying a new approach to try to get it to work and I finally got it to work. Instead of extracting files from the option shown when right clicking on the file to extract all, which I normally do with mods from this website, I clicked on both the folder file and "mod" file and dragged them to where they need to go.

 

This folder as shown appears after double-clicking the zip file (the one that appears in download folder of file explorer shown to be zipped up which I added for reference) when I click extract file, the file shown in the second screenshot goes to stellaris mod folder and it just won't work no matter how many times I try.

 

Yet if I double-click the file in screenshot above to open the content in the screenshot down below I'll get this screen, clicking on both and dragging them to stellaris mod folder I get the mod to work as intended without fail every time I click launch game. Just click and drag the two items not copy and paste.

 

 This picture is from computer not wanting to run the mod when loading up the game and the "mod" file not appearing outside the folders like the other two did. Moving it out manually after extracting files from the compressed zipped file wouldn't work either. I have to avoid the extract all option.

 

Apparently, the computer doesn't like the file from the second screenshot even though it's just one extra file path for the computer to navigate to the main files or doesn't like the pathing system and caused something to break (?) but the 2 files from the third screenshot if I drag it to where it needs to go, perfectly fine and acceptable and it'll run the mod. Can't drag the file from second screenshot to mod folder as that will break the mod preventing anything from being shown on screen. Extracting the file content is not ok but simply dragging the files out manually by my mouse and placing them in the mod folder is acceptable for my computer to run them. All screenshots are showing the files when it's still zipped up and stored in downloads section of file explore as shown in first screenshot except the fourth picture. Not sure why but this is the solution to fix it for me, guess my computer is finicky about this mod so I'll keep this in mind for the future. The "mod" file always appeared in mod folder when I clicked on the file in the stellaris mod folder as it would appear in the folder from the fourth screenshot but just wouldn't make the "mod" file show with the other "mod" files as shown in fourth screenshot like the traits and portrait pack ended up doing. My guess is it's a pathing problem which got bugged/stuck and just wouldn't activate or computer refused to read/recognize the file, so it would read it as missing in playsets. Dragging it out of the file to where others with similar logo's (a page with play button) wouldn't work either so more than likely the problem came when I clicked extract all on the file causing something to get lost or break as a result. Probably a file pathing issue and it got corrupted (?). Trying to fix it made it worse in the end, hard to say the reason is. Every time I re-download the file, right clicked to extract all, the computer wouldn't run the mod but clicking on the file to drag it out of the compressed zipped file to the stellaris mod folder and did the same with the "mod" file allowed the computer to run the loading screens. In the end I did finally get the mod for loading screen to work properly, just took some time.

Thank you for putting up with me while I was figuring out the problem. Hopefully my computer isn't finicky with other mods from loverslab in the future. Keep up the good work on your mods.

 

[Frostbites]

Please ignore last pic from my replay, I replaced the third screenshot, and I guess I forgot to delete the old one or uploaded it to my replay twice and didn't realize it. Whoops.

[Frostbites]

I made a temp folder for this example but every time I did click extract all to place files where they needed to go, this is what appears in stellaris mod folder. Both the loading screens and "mod" files would appear in one folder. Moving the "mod" file out of the folder or leaving it in place bugged the entire mod out and the game would say it's not on disk as shown in second pic here. Only way to fix it was to avoid extract all and drag everything out into stellaris mod file, never had this issue before.

 

[ApolloFra]

4 hours ago, Frostbites said:

I made a temp folder for this example but every time I did click extract all to place files where they needed to go, this is what appears in stellaris mod folder. Both the loading screens and "mod" files would appear in one folder. Moving the "mod" file out of the folder or leaving it in place bugged the entire mod out and the game would say it's not on disk as shown in second pic here. Only way to fix it was to avoid extract all and drag everything out into stellaris mod file, never had this issue before.

 

That is so fucking weird, god damn, I NEVER heard anyone having this issue... and you've did most of the work, I didn't helped that much sadly... Happy that it works for now, but I'll have to investigate that in the future.

Feel free to join the discord if you want to see the other mods getting reworked or just for the community around there, and thanks again for trying out my mods !