hope u make another type that looks like arachne. half human and half spider. like a centaur...

May I integrate it into my Kenshi mod？I really like the mod you made.I want to make a Strategy mod

Hope it continues! Great concept!

NGiL - Bit late to comment here, but have you tried putting them in separate squads? I've found that only 1 predator in a squad can use the eating animation at a time. If you want multiple ones to do it, you need to spread them across in different squads.

May not apply because the blood spider is absolutely doing what it should. I've not tried this yet to see if the hybrids have it in their A.I when they have no active jobs (Bodyguard, ect).

Hey, man! Great mod, I love it Well, unfortunately my Queen or squad parasites don't eat bodies and corpses at all. Only blood spiders. Any advice would be appreciated!

P.s.: spawned alied npc parasites (swamped creatures) are working good, they consume corpses.

ok thanks well i will keep trying

@DOGE__LORD - they are a rare spawn, like 2% chance. Theres also a 1% chance youll encounter a Victim, If your not playing the queen start I would run from that.

i have a problem with finding hybrids in the swamp could anyone help me with that?

He does actually have Blood spiders though there's only a handful and they're only with his "personal guard" in his Throne tower, i don't believe there's any blood spider nests or patrols that spawn in Arach itself though wierdly. Also yeah that idea sounds really fun.

Your welcome, I'm glad you can finally enjoy your hybrids :). Bugmaster tie in would be cool, I'm not sold on the idea of skin spiders being on side with blood spiders tho. Bugmaster seems to keep skin spiders from memory, maybe skin spider queen/hybrid textures? For blood spiders I was thinking more of setting a up an ally faction with a nest that worked like the bars do in the main cities, lots of hybrids and spiders to recruit on a cycle so they repopulate like the bars do with drifters. Get a working nest going in the swamp and then the conquest campaign of the local ruins then the town then shark. I could probably scale it to not take over shark unless enough smaller locations are occupied making it feel like you have to build momentum.

OKAY, so while you were setting that drive link up for me
I was actually able to fix it. So i figured id go looking for a plugin for gimp/a online converter to do that with, ended up with a online converter.

Figuring that i would have to convert the dds to jpeg then back to dds, since if you were gonna send me the JPEGs it probably would work if you just sent me copies of your DDS files, as this whole problem seems to be steam corrupting them on download.

But i messed up and instead of doing dds to jpeg, i did dds too dds...
Realizing that i decided to try and open them just to see if anything happened, and that somehow fixed them (also did it too the Queen too, and it fixed her as well).

But seriously thank you some much for spending the time to help me figure this out, i cant thank you enough.

PS. I should probably say this on the queen page, but since we're here, a bugmaster theme'd start with a juiced up generic PC and Queen, with some "Royal guard" Hybrids would really cool

I could probably try that, though where would i get the JPG's from?

So if its a format error its a weird one. I'm thinking probably a file corruption, I would try a few things,

1) manually delete the numbered mod file containing the textures then re download - it sounds off, but steam might just say its uninstalled the mod and still use that file when you reinstall it. ie, it wont actually remove it from its data store just the gameplay.

2) if it is the format I don't understand why or if I can compile new textures without causing the same issue. Add to that this seems to be a unique issue. You could do manual patch and compile new DDS files in Gimp from Jpegs of the textures - if you know how to do that.

Using Gimp V2.10.20
Both the parasite texture's open and load fine (which if those are the non-human bloodspider replacers makes sense as those look fine in game)
But all the king and queen files fail to load giving the error Unsupported DXGI format (98)

That's all of them for this mod, can you view them at all if you open them up? weird that they wouldnt load for you

Okay so the Textures there are:
Blood_Spider_Parasite_HUGE_Diffuse
Blood_Spider_Parasite_HUGE_Normal
Kenshi Parasite King W4_Diffuse
Kenshi Parasite King W4_Mask
Kenshi Parasite King W4_Normal
Kenshi Parasite Queen W4_Diffuse
Kenshi Parasite Queen W4_Mask
Kenshi Parasite Queen W4_Normal
Not sure if thats all of the textures for it, but thats whats there.

@NayrZaBear - If you go into steam/steamapps/workshop/content there are numbered files for all your steam mods. If you find it you can open up the one with these mods and check the textures manually. If the textures are there, I can probably try making a quick a texture patch for you since the next likely culprit is that its an issue with the normal or specular maps. If they are not there I'll just upload to nexus.

Alright after a ton of messing around, i still haven't fixed it/ found out the issue.
I've messed with graphical setting as much as possible, uninstalled and re-installed the mod multiple times, Put the mod in various different load order placements, and even removed every face and texture mod i had in-case of some form of conflict.
And yet nothing worked, i think your probably right it must be something on steams side of things, especially because the original mods textures work perfectly fine (also the queen mod you made also has this issue except shes fully black with zero textures) is there any chance you could upload this to nexusmods? Thanks for your time, and worst case scenario i'll just have to stick with the original mod.

@NayrZaBear - if its everywhere but the head it means the custom textures didn't load properly, if your the only person having this issue it could be two things;

1, The file was corrupted somehow in download - reinstalling the mod might fix it.

2, your graphics settings might not be reading the normal map correctly. Playing around with the settings might fix it. But given that they are made exactly the same as every other texture in the game my money is on problem 1.

3, Weird lighting - They use the skin tone slider, so they can be black if that's set the darkest setting and the lighting is dark (swamp for instance) but that wouldn't explain the face.

That's all I can think of that might be affecting it.

I'm having a problem where the everywhere but the head on their bodies is completely black. would you happen to have any idea what might be causing this to happen?
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks!!!! :DDD

you can use them like normal characters (except boots) so they should be fully compatible with all gear.

Great, can I equip your shell armor for Shek?
It will be the terror of the Holy Nation. >:D

Base Greenlander, no boots, acid resist, burn resist, +toughness, +dodge, +athletics. Vampiric. Sometimes eat people (well... drink blood).

:O STATS!?