Project ANGEL

Up to Date for Version 4. 2.x ✔️ Project ANGEL is a fully 3D animated portrait for Stellaris. Fun fact, all Stellaris portraits are actually 3D models, despite being implemented as 2D planes. This project was intended primarily as a tech demo, exploring the limitations of the system and pushing the boundaries of what is functionally possible. Now it's public. Please enjoy! This mod provides you with: • A holographic leader portrait, fully 3D and featuring a range of demonstrative idle animations. • An android (or organic) alternative of the same. • A padded mod description and some bad writing. That's really it. NOTICE: In order to use the Machine portraits, you must have access to either The Machine Age or Synthetic Dawn DLC packs. The android variant, however, is available under the Humanoid category without DLC. I may add more idle animations or rework old ones if inspiration strikes. Please note that this mod overwrites the following file, and is therefore incompatible with any mod which also modifies or overwrites the following file: gfx / FX / pdxmesh.shader 04 Dec 2025: • Updated shader overwrite to include changes up to version 4. 2.x 21 May 2024: • Cleaned up beta content which had snuck into the main release as unintended bloat • Updated shader overwrite to include changes since version 3. 9.x • Transitioned portrait format to 3. 12.x 21 Sep 2023: • Checked and proved 3. 9.x compatibility • Dissolved ANGEL species category and instead foldered into Machine and Robot • Included android portrait variant which is also available in Humanoid category • Corrected minor rigging issues that were previously overlooked • Removed namelist 05 Oct 2022: • Checked and proved 3. 5.x compatibility • Corrected shader issue implemented with the Overlord portrait update • Minor error log cleaning (namelist still pending) 23 Feb 2022: • Checked and proved 3. 3.x compatibility 04 Jan 2022: • Checked and proved 3. 2.x compatibility 18 Apr 2021: • Checked and proved 3. 0.x compatibility