hey can i use this version to reskin the lwotc standalone enemy pack?

@Kinsect based on the description of those mods, and the description of this mod, I believe so?

Is this mod usable alongside your Archon visual diversity mod? I have another mod that gives male archons a silver alternate look sometimes so it'd be nice if the female variant could also have both the gold and silver variants.

Wait if you already incorporated the-

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Archon Visual Diversity
Prototype Sectopod skin.
Advent Hunter's new Sniper
Shieldbearer Weapon visual replacement.
MOCX Mec Visual Replacement

does that override them and should we unsub to them? ^^;;

Not from me sorry I haven't used Playable Aliens and don't know how it works.

I'm currently not modding although anybody can take the Chimera Squad stuff here as long as they credit Firaxis and such.

Any chance of a version or submod that adds these alien cosmetics as customization options for Playable Aliens?

Whatever you want, if you know how you can mix bits of each into one of the mods since my reskin mods are mostly just content files and INI configs, there are some stuff that is done via script only so you can't have everything in one mod.

Should i use this or the other reskin version ?

Not sure, the way they set up that mod is different to their later enemy reskinning mod so I'm not sure if it will work without manual tweaks.

You could make them work as long as you know the file names in the UPK's/Content folder and included them in the enemy reskinner ini (and place the stuff from that mod's content folder into a mod you have enabled)

Is that compatible with Lago’s reskin mod: A Better Advent: Enemy Reskinner?

archon booba

Up to personal preference, if you know how to you could merge some of the changes together via one of the other mods I suppose.

Hum, I think I got it now. If I am running ABA and other alien mods, which version would you recommend?

This mod and the ABA version I'm certain aren't compatible, they both make changes to base game units.

The difference between this mod and that mod are which modded enemies it changes, etc.

Sorry, just to be sure, I couldn't be 100% by the description; this mod is for the BASE game "only"(plus enemy mods), while the ABA is for, well, ABA, while base game units are left untouched. Is that correct?
Also, those enemy mods listed, are they compatible with the ABA version?

Eh I never tested the two mods together, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't straight up not work but I can't say it does either.

I feel like it's redundant anyways personally since this mod pretty much does what that one accomplishes but makes the skin gold.

@Deadput You say "Archon Visual Diversity (although the female Archon is gold here)" does this mean we can't have the silver version even if we use the Archon Visual Diversity mod?

Yup Rusty speaks the truth, that way you can use those skins in addition or instead of these ones.

Rusty as ever you are my saviour. Thank you and the spirit of modding

Technically yes .. though I wouldn't do it "here" .. I'd roll those .upk's into the base EnemyReskinner mod .. and then add the correct config lines for the alternate appearances in that mods config

Extremely nooby question I'm aware - but is it possible to add our own enemies into here as "looks", without having the sheer clutter of a million actually-different-unit variants on say, Advent Troopers?

I know that, loosely, you can combine say, Voicepacks all into one mod by putting their Content folder, localisation file & config together. Is it possible to do the same with Enemies? Like if I wanted the recently updated "Yellow" & "Aegis" Advent looks from Spectrum - would I roll e.g. their Content folder into this Mod's, set up the config to point at the right templates. And then have them as looks but not spawning-in enemies?

Sorry I'm talking in loops. Mods make my head hurt, but while I do love some more visual variety my rig doesn't appreciate picking from 100+ different options when creating a pod of units. So just rendering them down to looks would be a huge boost.

Did Anything happen @Leoarcticaa I was also curious

@Deadput - Ill have to test it out ^^ thanks for the reply and mod :P

It's possible that it would randomize the look of your playable aliens each time you launched a mission/save or it could do nothing at all for the playable aliens.

Not sure, haven't tried it.

I'm sure it's possible but maybe not via the default configs of the mod as is but again I don't know.

You probably hear this all the time but I have to ask.

Can this be used to edit playable aliens mod? Not the LW version (although thats part of the question) the normal game version, the one that adds Vipers, Mutons, Sectoids and Adromadons?

Outside of the probably unlikely question of "are you sure you have the mod enabled/downloaded, etc or do you have all the requirements" I wouldn't know what the issue would be.

This mod doesn't do anything without the required reskinning utility mod if that's what's missing, otherwise I'd try clearing your configs (google Xcom 2 mod config clearing if you don't know how)

Not sure what's going wrong, but I haven't seen any variations of enemies with this mod. My mod launcher doesn't list any conflicts, I'm not using a mod that disables reveal animations, nor am I using ABA.

good

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I can confirm this mod works with mod jammed lwotc, it's just that when you have frost legion installed, frost necromancer tend to show up more often than their normal sectoid counterpart

Yup sorry man not sure what's going on there since I don't play LWOTC with or without ModJam.

Then I don't know what the hell is going on then. But I since installed Mod Jam, so there isn't even that many Sectoid to peruse and just ice nercromancer.

As a note I don't replace the base game Sectoid skin, these are just in addition to their base skin. (So they have 4 in total)

I use a mod "no reveal cutscene" and that fixed it. Now every sectoid that clothes. No more naked beach day for them.

Ah just reread that the Sectoid would show up with a look, cutscene happens and then their look changed?

That's new and I can only guess it's a mod conflict somewhere.

Also no, i dont use that mod.

Yeah, but they are naked every time, so I didnt chock it up to that line specifically. Unless I just have very very bad rng.

@PURE VARGOS Are you using the Enhanced Ragdoll Physics and FX mod as well ?

That's normal as stated in the description:

"Reveal animations in general will have it so that Aliens with multiple skins might sometimes display another skin in favor of the one that they actually have, this issue is the same one from World War L and my Archon visual diversity mod."

Nothing that can be done about it.

sometime, my second would show up wearing clothes, but after the pod trigger cutscene end, he end up back naked again, just the vanilla sectoid with no accessories at all, I am using this with long war, is that a problem?

It's in the description under the compatibility section

"This mod is not compatible with my ABA version, there will be conflicts."

Okay, I didn't see anywhere that it would be incompatible with the previous one, thought they just covered different enemy types. Disabled now.

Yeah the animations would be nice to have, maybe sometime I'll get off my butt and port em to Xcom 2 as it's own enemy or something.

Too bad it isn't possible to give Sectoids( Paladins, Dominator, Resonant, Necromancer)
their rifle animations and Chimera Squad abilities without making them new classes. Would be a nice alternative to ADVENT soldiers. Showing that the Elders are getting annoying with XCOM's success.

There is no Advent Heavy covered in this mod, you must be using the reskin mod from last season which is incompatible with this one.

ABA is not covered in this mod which is where the Heavy comes from.

The advent heavy appears to be untextured. At first, I thought he was just all white, but then I saw one up close just now and it appeared entirely white. I.e. untextured white.

Yeah, can confirm this mod works with lwotc, saw those Armored advent troops donned in silver and armored sectoids

Me neither! Hence why I thought it would be nice to highlight them.

ooh i never noticed advent warlock are followed by armored troopers