Animated Silicoid Portraits: Revisited

Overview Do you dream of glassy silicoids? Or perhaps you'd like some rock-people with sexual dimorphism? Silfae's "Animated Silicoid Portraits" mod delivers several different options for portraits and extra gameplay features. Do you wish the gameplay elements were up-to-date so that you can play the Taclariotan Influence or Mandate of Druerd as designed? Then this mod is for you! There are lots of other mods which contain these portraits, so why should you choose this one? None of the others update the species traits, custom empires, or shipset, but this one does! Please enjoy my translation of Silfae's custom empire into modern Stellaris. Changes All gameplay features from the original mod are upgraded to be fully compatible with Stellaris 3. 8 "Gemini," the latest version when this was written. Updates include: Update the included Contingency-swap shipset silicoid_01 Ensure the ship entities are blank for ship sections and instead use the ship hull as the attachment point for the Contingency graphics Add missing entities and weapon locators Remove duplication Fallback for titans, juggernauts, and colossi is Contingency (ai_01), which itself will fall back to mammalian Update silicoid civics to use modifiers available in modern Stellaris (also now available for Lithoids) Allow silicoids as a secondary species and to spawn randomly (which requires at least one random namelist) Add a silicoid namelist (sourced from a variety of random name generators) Silicoids are now part of the LITHOID archetype (requires Lithoids) They remain a separate Silicoid (SLCOD) species class Can use many common built-in traits (although some are specifically omitted by making trait_silicoid incompatible with them) Molten cannot be taken by species starting on cold worlds, Cold Pulse cannot be taken by species starting on warm worlds - this restriction applies to any origin that allows you can select your species' ideal climate Can use (most) lithoid traits and unique silicoid traits Lith