Added a link to the spiritual successor.

Made a spiritual successor to this amazing mod called Inclusive Skin Tones . There's a link in the description to a version that includes Laguru's skin tones.

would really appreciate an update on this!

Excited for this update. You chose amazing colors for this. I appreciate it! Especially as a person with brown skin who's seen the absolutely worse palette picks. LOL

I'll be waiting for this new mod!

still hoping for a successor, I loved this mod

1.4 update please

Insane flashbacks to when I started playing. Literally, the first mod I ever looked up to see if it existed was this. Very cool to see it finally happen :)

Ill be so happy once this is updated. I didn't realize how much difference it makes until now

please update for 1.4 <3 i love this mod

suggestion for 1.4 version of the other mod you are making, make it that the skin colours can be added modified in xenotypes,
because I think it would be nice for colonists to inherent a variety of skin colours to bring variety

Can confirm that I safely removed this mod and that it was "More Colors" that caused the save game break. You can safely remove this mod if it's still in your 1.4 save.

Thank you to @Lugaru for making a mod that helped diversify representation in the Rim it's a shame it's been replaced by a new game feature. I think you were actually the first person to create this kind of mod in my 4+ years of playing.

Don't let this discourage you from making new content

Removing this mod might break my game in 1.4. Stupid of me to enable it even though it's 1.3. Just a warning for all those with the mod in their 1.4 save.

Obviously, all my colonists are white and I've only just clocked this, so. (facepalm)

that does sound cool

I actually have an idea for a way to handle 1.4's system,

What about the idea of having pawns spawn with two skin genotypes perhaps with a chance of a third, and averaging between their available tones (including the possibility to pick the same twice, in which case, they just spawn with the one gene)
Then Xenotypes would overwrite wholesale, but then if you have multiple xenotypes, you'd average those again, so like, a pink and a blue xenotype would end up creating a lavender pawn

@chemicplosion I think for 1.4 I will update 'default humans' to have a large variety of skin genes and I've been experimenting with eye colors and other stuff. More to come.

I hope you find a way to successfully port this, or something similar, over to functioning with biotech/1.4, I love this mod and the diversity it adds to the game

The melanin system has completely gone away / changed for 1.4 so for the time being this will remain a 1.3 only mod.

Just waiting on the DLC because I suspect it might make changes to character generation, skin, etc.

1.4?

HAR already allows eye colors and such... I was working on a HAR like 'better humans' mod but I kind of lost steam. I can send you some of the work I did maybe gonna message you.

Hi! I was wondering if you know if it would be possible to add a secondary color channel to humans, similar to some HAR mods (like Seren , my own HAR mod, for example) or some pieces of furniture (to my knowledge, at least).
I ask because I am creating a mod that adds custom masks to popular head retextures, and since many of those have irises, I wanted to add different eye colors through a secondary color channel for humans.
If you'd be interested or willing to help since I'm not that good at coding, I'd be happy to pay you commission for your coding work and make you a co-author on my mod when I post it. I understand if you aren't interested though, I just wanted to throw that out there in advance. I appreciate you reading this!

Yoann yeah that is my impression it is just declared as .5 at some point.

In practice <centralMelanin>0.1</centralMelanin> doesn't correspond to any field in type FactionDef.

@Yoann Oh LOL

In theory you can maybe add a centralmelanin tag like <centralmelanin>0.1</centralmelanin> to a faction because I think it does get floated and that would mean they start super white and then apply genetic variance. Or .9 would go in the other direction. I might experiment.

So it looks like 2 things are at play... Central Melanin and Genetic Variance. The range ends up being Central Melanin (usually .5) + and - genetic variance (so if it is .1 that would be .4 to .6). If I can find out the central melanin and manipulate it then you can have a lot of control over the average color of your faction (from mole men to afro futurists).

Thank you for your answer.

This node is already set at 0.1 for NPC tribes, it's the variance of skin color inside a same faction, but we can't choose the base color for the faction this way (easy to see by playing with player faction and randomise pawns).

FACTIONDEF -> <geneticVariance>0.1</geneticVariance>

@Elth ???
I want the mole men faction to be white as ass by never saw the sun.

@Yoann oh god....

Do you know a way to set the melanin level by Backstory or by faction please?

Yeah, I'm not looking for rainbow hair dyes, I'm looking for a reasonable range of human variation.

My go-to mod for many aspects of that used to be Facial Stuff, but they're... probably not updating anymore.

But here you are with a realistic range of skin colors! Mods and modders are sure great.

I will take a look and see if there is any space for improvement. I've seen mods that vastly increase the number of colors, but maybe a curated selection would add value.

Any chance of adding a similarly realistic palette of hair colors?

@Castor safe to add and remove does not generate any data just patches the color choices.

save to add & remove from midgame?

Pretty tame for Rimworld if you ask me...

Oh my god of course there already is a mod for that. This is the rimworld community after all.

A mod already exists, search Diversity and Discrimination.

I wonder if that would even be possible.

You think you can add a precept to ideology that can discriminate based on melanin level?
asking for a friend.

Exceptionally small, but it's nice and should be in the base game.

@Codytest the humanoid races mod bypasses melanin based skin system so Green Aliens will still be Green for example.

How does this work with the humanoid races mod?

Finally! Variety for my human leather hats and apparel!

Thank you!! I love more variety in my pawns :)

I love this mod but it appears I think around tone .80 - .90 it has a stray dot across the sprite

Finally I can surround myself with amazons of more than 5 different shades... <3
TRIBAL RUN HERE I COME HOHOHO!