Animechwarrior - Anime Portraits Replacer with AI Generated Art - HBS Battletech Edition

This is a purely cosmetic mod; no changes have been made to the gameplay.

Animechwarrior for MechWarrior 5 here

Requirements:

-Hard requirement. This mod is built and tested on ModTek 3. 1. 11, but any up-to-date version should work.

Commander Portrait Loader

-Soft requirement but highly recommended. Without CPL, your player character, generic pilots (non ronin/backer) and the big four (Behemoth, Dekker, Glitch, Medusa) will still use vanilla portraits. If you’re fine with that, you can safely discard the CommanderPortraitLoader folder within the main file.

Career mode won’t have this problem with those four, only campaign mode does.

Compatibility with major modpacks:

By default, Animechwarrior will load after the core module for these modpacks:

XAI BattleTech 3025 (XAI)

BattleTech Extended 3025-3061 (BT_Extended)

Battletech Revised (BTR-Core)

BattleTech 3025 Hyades Rim (Hyades Rim)

Battletech Advanced 3062 (BT Advanced Core)

RogueTech (RogueTech Core)

However, I cannot guarantee that it works (well) with BTA and RT since I never tested them, nor do I have any idea on how either of these mods works.

Ravenlash made a guide on how to make Animechwarrior work with RT in a pinned post, along with other helpful resources.

This mod should functionally play nice with Hyades Rim, but there is no specific support at this moment, meaning that any new portraits/illustrations in that mod will stay as is.

BEX, BTR and XAI are confirmed to be compatible. I have tested it on XAI 2. 16 with a full campaign walkthrough and a few flashpoints covering all DLCs; it’s also briefly tested on BEX and BTR.

Description:

Portraits for vanilla game pilots and NPCs, along with a few illustrations, are replaced with anime style artworks. I generated all the artworks with NovelAI, handpicked them for the most aesthetically pleasing and consistent feel I managed to get.

Excluding those wearing neurohelmets: 13 generic mechwarriors, 6 generic great house mechwarriors and the Bounty Hunter. They do not appear as hireable pilots and I think they blend in pretty well with the rest of the world turning anime.

The Argo crew (Darius, Farah, Sumire, Yang) have less aggressive redesigns to fit better with the 3d models you’ll be seeing a lot. Two major characters from Arano Restoration, on the other hand, look pretty different from their vanilla counterparts despite having 3d models hanging around during the campaign.

38 in total, mostly