Pink aliens... I think Peter Griffin would say; "Oh, that's gay." for some reason... (PS: Peter Griffin is Peter Griffin, he will always say random stuff that might be interpreted as rude)

Kinda surprised nobody's made this for Allies Unknown yet, huh

It can work alongside them, I've used this with my own with no issues since this mod just adds skins but doesn't replace any like my own does.

so how does this work with other reskinner mods?

Update with new skins?

@TheGamingArchaeologist: You need to find the right ID for the alien but I can confirm it works for at least the first skin in the Armory, I do not know if ingame it will show the randomised mix or not. The IDs are typically in the source folder, on the file "[SomethingElse]_Characters.uc". They are typically in this format:

CharTemplate.strPawnArchetypes.AddItem(" GameUnit_Chryssalid.ARC_GameUnit_Chryssalid ")

Is this compatible with the diverse archon mod?

Can this be used to reskin ally aliens from mods like Allies Unknown?

this mod seems to work as intended, for the most part. other then the pod cutscenes being strange, this mod seems to mostly work.

I think the reason playable aliens doesn't work is it uses different names. But the order card does change the skin for the accompanied allies on missions.

I don't think it works on allies, just played a game with playable aliens and this mod installed. All the enemy sectoids were all of a different color, while the one I got was stock colored.

yea big question, can this work on allies? The white skin for Viper is like Torque from Xcom:Chimera Squad, so I would really like do use it.

i like rainbow aliens lkike a pony

will this work on ally aliens. I'm using a mod that allows aliens to be recruitable called playable xcom 2 races

Shame this is for WOTC only, I still have to get that sometime.

@Ace Noice
@Arkhangel Right, I get that, but that is what I instinctively assumed

@Cryoflair: there's already a Shiny golden Sectopod. With jump jets. CX made it. It shows up if you leave those Pygmy Sectopods (Hunters) alone long enough to call one.

@Arrojacast: in fairness, that game literally just released.

I have a Chimera Squad update planned ;) @Lord Arrojacast

I saw the title and immediately assumed that there were going to be green mutons like Axiom.
Guess I need to be less hasty.
Cool idea still.

I'm sticking to Alien because most trooper mods are differentiated entirely by color. With aliens, typically they use different models so some color variation won't cause as much confusion.

Are the recolors going to be exclusive to aliens or will you (later) move onto advent and their robots?

I'm hoping for a shiny golden sectopod

@Cyber Von Cyberus Thanks! Glad I was able to make them more likeable

I love the new overhaul of the skins, makes them much more pleasing to look at

question. if i use playable Xcom Aliens. do these Skins become available? can i have a White or Red Viper? or will they still be just the standard ones.

Chryssalid next? Though IMHO it is best to have say couple variant and closer to its default color (no white because of the TLP dlc).

v3.0
-Added 4 new Archon skins
-2 new Berserker skins
-1 new Viper skin
-Brought back the green sectoid skin and toned it's colors down
-Toned down colors on a number of the more saturated skins. Pretty much every sking should be realistically colored now, minus the Darth Maul muton.
-Lowered the purple berserker's size to be 1.15x instead of 1.5x

Though the purple berseker is a bit too large.

Hey, that seems like a great idea! Animals, even within the same species, will tend to have some variations in size so why not aliens as well?

@tastiger841 No way to shrink her size in the inis, but I'll tone the size down in the next update to a more reasonable level

Love the new look mutons, is it possible to reduce the size of the purple berserker a bit? I was a bit shocked to see her the first time, the one was next to her must wet his pants

Hmmmmm this could be a way to incorporate (with permission from the original authors) the skins of alien units like the ABA or LW ones could instead be used as alternative looks for existing base game enemies.

Centurions and Elite skins might look weird on normal Mutons but it could help for variety.

@ryousanko: Actually makes more sense for them to be differing due to how the public would view them if seen. Kinda more obvious they're "Battle-thralls" if they're identical. Gotta remember ADVENT's main power on Earth is their good publicity and how they twist the media.

That kinda thing gets shot to hell when folks start noticing all the aliens are carbon-copies.

you can turn off what you don't like in the config now. @brain nibbler also which colors did you feel were too extreme? I wanna try and make some more realistic skins for those interested

It's a cool idea but I wish the color variations weren't so extreme. I just want the enemies to look like they're separate entities, not from different dimensions.

One Snek, Two Snek, Red Snek, Blue Snek...

Oh nice ! Thank you both for this update

@PM_Zigg Price
I've updated the mod to run an Enemy Reskinner. It should have been compatible before, but if it wasn't it definitely is now.

@Stackboy101
It should, test it and find out

@MrMister
That was a great idea. Just updated the mod.

LATEST UPDATE:

-Mod now requires Enemy Reskinner
-Added Muton with orangish skin and white armor
-Added Muton with greyish skin and red armor
-Added Sectoid with dirty red skin
-Added Kool-Aid Man Andromedon per request. Disabled by default because of model switching issues, but won't break the game if enabled.

This work with Allies Unknown?

Also, Enemy Reskinmer knows not to do stuff when either a unit or a skin referenced im it doesn't exist, so you could potebtiaññh include skins for modded units amd players who don't have those mods wouldn't have any problems with you doing so.

If you don't want to have to make your own user-editable config dependency, you should definitely make this mod dependent on Enemy Reskinner . It's kinda like WSR, but for enemy skins. You can then simply pack your mods with just the new skins in .upks and an EnemyReskinnerRedux.ini that adds one skin per line.

Read the instructions in the mod's ini, as you can specify that new skins don't replace old ones and knstead add to the pool of possibñe skins a unit can take (like vanilla does with male and female advent troopers/captains), which is exactly what you want to do.

How does this interact with enemy mods, such as A Better Advent? Will it mess with the colors of the new enemies, or will it just recolor the vanilla enemies?

Fancy flashy colors. Me like. After all the hours and completed playghoughs in Xcom 2, this will be nice to freshen things up a bit. looking forwards anything you may add to this.

@KHFreack Not exactly sure, but if you end up testing it yourself please let me know so I can adjust the description accordingly.

could this work with https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218007143
so you could change the color of the aliens that you recruit?

It actually started to bother me too, so I just replaced it @Cyber Von Cyberus

possible to tweak the ini so that I can i.g. change only the vipers color ?

to get all WELL ACKSHUALLY, the only ones we know are clones are sectoids, advent hybrids, and presumably vipers. even then, hybrids still exhibit genetic variety! so technically this mod could be lore-friendly

I like it, sadly I find the green sectoids a bit weird but, oh well.

I mean considering some of what we've since in CS' trailers, this might be more lore friendly than you think. Nice one!