@Husky

Someone has picked up the mod here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3353777630

Hope you enjoy!

@Zerox if you update it, please link it here. Would download in instant.

@Zerox Yeah for sure. You can find the modders discord space by searching Stellaris Modders Den on google or something. Theres a lot of helpful people there that helped me get this off the ground in the first place. If you do end up taking a serious crack at it, you have my permission to upload any of the stuff I made, I would just ask that you credit me for the original. Feel free to DM me as well if you need any of the raw files. I still have them.

@Billia Hi, do you know of any place I could learn about modding, enough to take a shot at an update of this pack?

Hey fans. I am unable to come back to the modding scene for now, but I give anyone permission to take over this mod and bring it back to life. Perhaps you have some other favorite portrait modders you might be able to convince to revive this on my behalf :D

for some reason the category that should have these portraits doesnt show up, would love that fixed, I cant find anything else that replaces machine age portraits

Nice
Sadly broke as of 3.12
Truly was one of my favorite Portrait mods!

@Proteus

I understand what you're talking about now.
1. If you don't like it you can just learn to mod for yourself.
2. My mod DOES add them to the buildable pops pool for all empires. There's a 50% chance of an empire using my mod or the vanilla pops when they research robotics.

@Billia
No, I mean, why can't most Robot portrait modders just add the portraits to the Robot portrait pool? Almost every such mod that has ever been made insists on making them their own race, or only selectable by players at race creation, or as part of some massive overhaul mod that is incompatible with almost every other mod in existence. How hard is it to just make them Robot portraits? Robot portrait mods are cursed. Cursed I say. I resent the suffering that Robot Portrait modders insist on inflicting on the rest of the playerbase.

I have included parts of your mod in mine. Do you have any objections?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2796778215

Updated to 3.2.2

@Evil_Lord_Proteus
Thanks! I don't imagine it would be difficult to make a synthetic portrait. You would just go about creating the species as an organic one, but then specify that it uses machine looking portraits. Mine are machine empires because I wrote them that way, but I don;t know of any issues that would prevent what you're looking for if a modder wanted to do it.

These portraits look great, but I am shocked at how most, if not all, modders have been unable to simply make synthetic portraits that simply operate like regular portraits and be selectable both at Empire creation and for mod templates.

@Alphari
This mod doesn't do anything but add a new class of machine portraits. So what you're describing probably won't work. I think there is another mod that does what you want and allows you to change the portrait of your robots in an existing save. My mod doesn't have that functionality.

Look. We have plants, we have fungi. We cannot mutate fungi into a plant.

So I ask, can I modify my robots into robots with this skin? OR should I create a new robot species (separate species)?

@Alphari
I don't think I understand what you're asking. Are you referring to the robomodding tech in the game? Are you asking about changing the robot portraits that your empire uses?

As far as I know, you cannot change the which robot portrait a biological empire uses from within the game. This is what I was talking about in my last comment. I would like to make it possible for the portraits I made to be used by biological empires. But for now, they will only work as the player empire.

Hope that helps to clarify.

I understood. But I need to know, can I modify my robots in these robots? Or do I need to create a separate robot species?

@Alphari
Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to get the AI to use these or how to get non player robots to use these. I am still learning to mod and that is one thing I'd like to get added to this.

This mod creates a new class. Does this mean that I can’t change my robots into this?

OH heck yea! thank you!