species/portrait [mod] Deluxe Species pack reforged

[Platinphoenixx]

25 minutes ago, Deluxe_Vector said:

And for the second question. I.. actually dont know. I forgot to test that XD

You can. Not the machine pops as robots but the rest work.

[Deluxe_Vector]

2 hours ago, Platinphoenixx said:

You can. Not the machine pops as robots but the rest work.

Wait the Machines do not work?
I will look into that.

They should work.

[Arhon]

3 hours ago, Deluxe_Vector said:

It is not a replacer, it just categorizes them in the existing archetypes.

And for the second question. I.. actually dont know. I forgot to test that XD

I can tell you when i have time to actually play the game haha

Dont worry boss, i did the tests myself, you can use these portraits when you doing species modification so its ok.

 

EDIT: the Machine ones does work for me but you need to have a secondary machine species in your empire, this is a good mod to test it out https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2621840890

Edited September 16, 2025 by Arhon

[Platinphoenixx]

23 hours ago, Deluxe_Vector said:

Wait the Machines do not work?

 

22 hours ago, Arhon said:

but you need to have a secondary machine species in your empire, this is a good mod to test it out

This is correct and the reason why they "don't work" is because robot pops as in robotic workers use a different category than machine pops, aka machine intelligence. That's why as any form of non-gestalt empire, you cannot choose your portraits as design for your robots. That's normal.

[Deluxe_Vector]

1 hour ago, Platinphoenixx said:

 

This is correct and the reason why they "don't work" is because robot pops as in robotic workers use a different category than machine pops, aka machine intelligence. That's why as any form of non-gestalt empire, you cannot choose your portraits as design for your robots. That's normal.

AH yes, i remember now, thanks for reminding me.
I had this same issue before but it has been some time haha.

It will be fixed in V2.2 when the next 3 portrait sets drop, approximately next weekend.

Edited September 17, 2025 by Deluxe_Vector

[Deluxe_Vector]

Update to V2.2 

Stellaris 2.1 compatible (I couldn´t find any bugs)
3 New portrait sets
Bugfixes
 

[Railgunner2160]

Very nice work! Any chance you've considered expanding your future plans for any sexy psionic species, or sexy tankbound ones, maybe both at once?

[Deluxe_Vector]

28 minutes ago, Railgunner2160 said:

Very nice work! Any chance you've considered expanding your future plans for any sexy psionic species, or sexy tankbound ones, maybe both at once?

Thanks.

Currently only Elfs and Succubus are planned.
Maybe i will do something psyonic in the future, but i dont have any ideas yet what that would look like.

Tankbound is something i tried but my program that i use to cut out the background has huge problem with anything thats not a living being. XD
I am automating that stuff otherwise it would just take to much time to make 135 portraits per portrait pack.

[Railgunner2160]

19 minutes ago, Deluxe_Vector said:

Thanks.

Currently only Elfs and Succubus are planned.
Maybe i will do something psyonic in the future, but i dont have any ideas yet what that would look like.

Tankbound is something i tried but my program that i use to cut out the background has huge problem with anything thats not a living being. XD
I am automating that stuff otherwise it would just take to much time to make 135 portraits per portrait pack.

Fair enough, I've run into that issue alot when working on my contributions for VF Continued & my VF Inspired Themes. I've been sourcing images for my own attempt at a tankbound set for a potential contribuition to VF Continued, I thought sourcing was gonna be the biggest hurdle but it looks like the editing is gonna take the longest to do. 

[Deluxe_Vector]

24 minutes ago, Railgunner2160 said:

Fair enough, I've run into that issue alot when working on my contributions for VF Continued & my VF Inspired Themes. I've been sourcing images for my own attempt at a tankbound set for a potential contribuition to VF Continued, I thought sourcing was gonna be the biggest hurdle but it looks like the editing is gonna take the longest to do. 

Yea i also do a lot of editing in gimp to fix errors.
Its unfortunately the part that takes the longest.

[RawPaws2]

How bout some werewolves?

[Deluxe_Vector]

2 hours ago, RawPaws2 said:

How bout some werewolves?

Right now I will add elves and necroid succubus/Incubus on the weekend.

 

I want to concentrate on monsters and anthro stuff next so you might be in luck. (Not sure yet if it will be wolves)

 

Buuuut I will take a little break from modding because I haven't been able to play Stellaris since 4.0 and I want to actually play my portraits XD

[Tboi2Fresh]

I was messing around with your files just privately, mixing mods around. I usually just mix the portraits within the mod Stellar Legions on the steam workshop, but liked your new and old portraits enough to try to mess around and add them in. I just copied your dds's files over to the stellar legions mod and replaced the names and the result was better than expected. I know nothing about modding so there is probably a simple answer but the animation carried over into your portraits and aren't half bad. Not sure if this is something you would want to look into. 

https://imgur.com/a/u1FUCxr

not sure how long its gonna stay up on imgur but there it is if you want to look

[Deluxe_Vector]

3 hours ago, Tboi2Fresh said:

I was messing around with your files just privately, mixing mods around. I usually just mix the portraits within the mod Stellar Legions on the steam workshop, but liked your new and old portraits enough to try to mess around and add them in. I just copied your dds's files over to the stellar legions mod and replaced the names and the result was better than expected. I know nothing about modding so there is probably a simple answer but the animation carried over into your portraits and aren't half bad. Not sure if this is something you would want to look into. 

https://imgur.com/a/u1FUCxr

not sure how long its gonna stay up on imgur but there it is if you want to look

 

Thats wild.

I didnt expect the mesh from stellar legions to be that big.

Thats definitely something i could look into but i dont know when I will have time for that.

[Arhon]

On 9/27/2025 at 6:17 AM, Tboi2Fresh said:

I was messing around with your files just privately, mixing mods around. I usually just mix the portraits within the mod Stellar Legions on the steam workshop, but liked your new and old portraits enough to try to mess around and add them in. I just copied your dds's files over to the stellar legions mod and replaced the names and the result was better than expected. I know nothing about modding so there is probably a simple answer but the animation carried over into your portraits and aren't half bad. Not sure if this is something you would want to look into. 

https://imgur.com/a/u1FUCxr

not sure how long its gonna stay up on imgur but there it is if you want to look

Damn that's wild alright.

 

Would really love animated version of this pack for sure.

 

EDIT: Just to be sure, are you talking about this mod? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3439854455 

Edited September 28, 2025 by Arhon

[Deluxe_Vector]

Okay i looked into it.
Since Stellaris treats the static portraits different than animated ones i have to rewrite a lot of code but it is nothig impossible.
Buut foremost i have to test it on my current portraits to make sure nothing is glitching around or moving weirdly.

 

If i will have to replace or edit a lot of portraits i will not go forward with it.

[Deluxe_Vector]

On 9/27/2025 at 5:17 AM, Tboi2Fresh said:

I was messing around with your files just privately, mixing mods around. I usually just mix the portraits within the mod Stellar Legions on the steam workshop, but liked your new and old portraits enough to try to mess around and add them in. I just copied your dds's files over to the stellar legions mod and replaced the names and the result was better than expected. I know nothing about modding so there is probably a simple answer but the animation carried over into your portraits and aren't half bad. Not sure if this is something you would want to look into. 

https://imgur.com/a/u1FUCxr

not sure how long its gonna stay up on imgur but there it is if you want to look

Hey might you be able to give me any infos how you scaled the portraits?
I put my new portrait set in and my portraits get warped and cut in half or something lol.
I tried to use the scaling in the gfx file but the result is the same but smaller.

I also noticed that the Stellar Legion portraits are in a very weird resolution.
How did you get the old portrait pack to work?

I am just confused because the old pack also uses a resolution of 340x340

[Tboi2Fresh]

9 hours ago, Arhon said:

Damn that's wild alright.

 

Would really love animated version of this pack for sure.

 

EDIT: Just to be sure, are you talking about this mod? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3439854455 

yeah that's the one I use

[Honkblarg503]

What model did you use for these images?

[Deluxe_Vector]

9 hours ago, Honkblarg503 said:

What model did you use for these images?

Illustrious XL Wai

[Deluxe_Vector]

Updated!
Sexy Demons and hot Elves

[DarkestAnon3]

Machines aren't working correctly for some reason. Have it set to show female only, but it's still showing the male portraits in-game. it's the only species it does it for too.

 

[Deluxe_Vector]

2 hours ago, DarkestAnon3 said:

Machines aren't working correctly for some reason. Have it set to show female only, but it's still showing the male portraits in-game. it's the only species it does it for too.

 

You are right.
That is so weird.
I tested it and it seems like the game seems to ignore the robots genders now..... even when i choose all male or all female they have male and female leaders.

It was working perfectly before....
I am investigating.

 

[Deluxe_Vector]

On 10/13/2025 at 6:36 PM, DarkestAnon3 said:

Machines aren't working correctly for some reason. Have it set to show female only, but it's still showing the male portraits in-game. it's the only species it does it for too.

 

Okay in my tests with my mod alone it is working.
But i could replicate the error with Lustful Void alone without my mod.

So the issue is not coming from my mod.

It was probably something Paradox changed in the last updates because this version of LV was working before.

[Inknoth]

It's alright, but either way I certainly love the fact they all have similarities in style here and there, just wish there were more stuff for the more alien ones (mainly arthropods, plantoids, necroids, reptilian, and y'know what, lithoid would also be fun!), might try my hand at stuff like this also, I just need to research bout it is all, but either looks good!

I personally use pix.ai for mine but likely wouldn't be able to get the average of atleast 40 per gender type (female, male, and futa) to quickly unless ya used an model specifcally made to be cheap but effective! (luckily for free-users you get 10k credits per daily, which it is cheeseable if ya got multiple emails and accounts from like discord or twitter tbh).

But if I do end up doin somethin like this, that'd what I'd be using!