ty for replying, and for keeping this mod up

@Wirewing
You can do anything you want with my mods, as long as you mention me in the description and there's a clickable link to the original.

Hello Azazellz, Would it be ok with you for someone to make a mod that combines Cute Hive with Tribal Hiver Face Paint mod?

Damn pug breeders got their hands on them. Look at that poor thing, can't even breathe properly.

@DingusMain - That's not how the baseline Radiant Faces works. I've never had that issue once. I know there's a lot of variants to Radiant Faces where people have tweaked the skeleton races or removed Kiana, but the OG one doesn't do what you're describing, so another mod on your list is.

You can fix that in the FCS but you'd need to know if there's a mod later down the chain performing that edit, for your edits to be effective.

It bothers me a bit that I have radiant faces for unique recruits mod which works w this mod but it sets all hiver to default which isnt a problem since plastic surgeons exist....Except Ray who cant speak so he is stuck as a normal Hiver while every other in my party is cute lol

@Rachel L
Most likely.

Am i correct in assuming this doesnt work with Mogwai Hive Rework?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3442168024

@Grubby
Look up. The attached forum thread describes how to do this.

is there a way to disable the color slider? I have rainbow colored hivers roaming around everywhere

I haven't modded Kenshi in a long time, I don't even have the game installed.
So I won't be able to do it.

Additionally, the problem is that the game doesn't have the mechanics of adapting armour to a specific character's race, as is done, for example, in Skyrim or Oblivion. If you modify an existing turban model - it will change for all characters. Alternatively, you can make a unique model, and assign it only to this race, but there are problems with "common" NPCs and equipment distribution.

I really hope K2 has such a system with adapting the appearance of equipment depending on the race of the character.

would you be able to make a mod for hive workers that makes their heads fit better in helmets they can wear? currently they can wear things like turbans and buck zuckins but the top of their head clips out really bad. I'd be more than happy to get in contact with you to even pay you for such a mod, just lemme know.

That's amazing news to hear and yeah, I hope so too. I've been enjoying learning more about modding just from FCS edits and more.

What wok did you have to do to make it happen?

Kenshi2 should be a good game, that's enough for me to try and replicate this mod there.
Though modder resources from the developers, like they did in K1, would be very helpful too.

Azazellz - This mod has been one of my favourites since spotting Mafisadi's art and my hivers don't feel right without it.

Come Kenshi 2 (you know, in 2031 :P) do you think you'll remake it? What wok did you have to do to make it happen?

@Hayden the first watcher
Not sure why but I can make Primordial Hives cute with Anrhaa's MegaKaizo/UWE pack, not sure what mod did it, but it's done there. May at least have some hope for ya there though.

ah damn then, I'mm no good at this modding stuff

can you make it compatible with primordial hive and hive praetorians?

Nope.
I've been done with Kenshi modding for a long time. And for now, I have no plans to return.

You can try doing this yourself, the key points here are the sliders that are written in the body file of all the sub-races, and the textual call of these sliders in the .xlm files for the character editor.

However, if primordial hive uses their own body models (I haven't used this mod and don't know anything about it) - then there will be difficulties.

well that explains why I haven't been able to make a cute prime hiver, can you make it compatible with primordial hive and hive praetorians?

with radiant primordial

I have no idea.
Probably not.

is this compatible with radiant primordial hives?

The issue only affects princes.
I didn't make a compatibility patch between Cute Hive and Princess of Cute Hive.
Sorry.

You can make it yourself, just open .xml files, and copy missing strings from Princess mod to Cute Hive mod ("female" section of .xml)
Or vice versa, copy the "male" section, depending on which mod you load last.

I've disabled a number of mods but can't seem to narrow the problem down; it's either no sliders at all (including the cute slider) or all sliders except the cute slider. The issue only affects princes.

I am having an issue with all sliders disappearing for hive princes, but nothing else. Any idea what's causing it? Reversing the order of this and princess brings all back except the cute slider.

I created a mass error-free patch/dummy mod between several Hiver mods which adds Praetorians and Queens to Hiver clades that did not previously have them (either through the original mod or a patch). Cute Hive is a main dependency along with Mogwai Hive Overhaul, Hives Expanded, General Modifications, & Southern Hive Queen and Fog Queen.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3242585435

Does this affect south hive?
Yes, as far as I remember.

Does this affect south hive?

Nvm, I just deleted to body vertices for Mogwai's Alternate Hive Queen, deleted the mead vertices for your princess mesh, and merged them both into a single mesh. I got the sliders working, just got to edit and assign vertex groups to get them to work as intended.

Perhaps, the breast slider are permanently messed up for this mesh... IDK

@Azazellz
Can this also be used for the messed up breast sliders on Mogwai's mesh? they are really sticky, I guess it's the way to describe it. Changing the editor limits to a range, instead of constant, results in just 2 functional positions for each breast slider (height, spacing, and size).

@JackJack
Yes, like this.

@Azazellz
Like this?
https://youtu.be/JnNYTcfTnmk?si=PWnmpgztcTbI_UMF

@JackJack
In Blender, there must be some way to transfer a morph from one shape to another, even if they are different in topology. Or it can be done through a separate plugin.
I did this once, but it was a long time ago and I've forgotten the details.

@Azazellz. Is there a way to edit other Hiver meshes to utilize the Cute slider, such as Mogwai's Alternate Hive Queen? Or would this have to be done from scratch?

@JackJack It's okay. Just be sure to put a link to this mod in the description.

@Azazellz. Would it be alright if I used your meshes in a patch for other hive clades?

THEY MADE THE PRINCE INTO AN ALIEN NOOOOOOOOOOO

For whatever reason this won't work with Universal Wasteland Expansion. The slider doesn't even appear

If anything changes .xml files for character creation or meshes for character models - there be the mod conflict.
Game can't patch and merge such things on the fly, so you need to do it yourself.

For whatever reason this won't work with Universal Wasteland Expansion. The slider doesn't even appear

i really like this mod not because it necessarily makes the hivers cuter to me but because it makes them look more wasp like or ant like. they were always so blocky before and now theyre not with this!

i hate to bug you, but i really like the mod and i'd like for it to apply to all hivers
That's normal.
I'm running the game now, and I've discovered something strange.
Regular Drones that walk around the Hives do not have this slider enabled.
However, other NPCs (including Drones) that appear in other places appear with this slider on.
I don't know what the reason could be. Regular Drones don't have a preset appearance that overwrites the basic character generator settings, as far as I can see.

>If I remember correctly, you can set a base value for the slider in the .xml configs to be applied for creating new NPC characters.
If you set it to 100, all characters will be created with it by default (except for unique ones with separate appearance settings).
Look in the mod files, there's only one xml file, it's not very difficult to change it with any text editor.

<Range target="stick2_cute" min="" max="" mid="" name="Cute Hive"/>

all three xml files (one for each playable type of hiver) has this line

setting min max mid all to 100 makes it so your character has to be cute, but npcs still spawn with the default face

i hate to bug you, but i really like the mod and i'd like for it to apply to all hivers

Thanks for the reply!

is there a way to set all hivers to spawn cute? Like a replace version instead of a slider

If I remember correctly, you can set a base value for the slider in the .xml configs to be applied for creating new NPC characters.
If you set it to 100, all characters will be created with it by default (except for unique ones with separate appearance settings).
Look in the mod files, there's only one xml file, it's not very difficult to change it with any text editor.

is there a way to set all hivers to spawn cute? Like a replace version instead of a slider

Is there a way to make this mod for a custom race only?
Yes, but I can't do that because I don't make mods anymore.
Apparently, you'll have to research how exactly to create your own race in Kenshi.

Is there a way to make this mod for a custom race only? Love the look but would prefer if it wasn't everyone. I tried modding my self but life of me can't figure out how to get it to work. Either it doesn't work at all or it affects all hives.

Basically a must have now. Vanilla hive are still nice, but this spices up their appearance so much more.

好東西，讓蜂巢族變得生動許多

從原版的死魚豆豆眼變成
現實昆蟲那邊有活力的複眼

I didn't like hive so much before, you changed my mind completely, they are so cute