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Dimorphism - Bat Portraits
   
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30 Jul, 2019 @ 2:51pm
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Dimorphism - Bat Portraits

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This was the first thing I did about a year or two ago, when I stopped playing Stellaris for a while. Recently started anew so I thought I might as well share this one because I was always fond of the various dimorphism mods and nobody has attended to the bat/vampire species, yet.

It's just a little handdrawn photoshop work, i.e. all animations etc. have been kept from the male portraits, which were left unchanged. All the regular color variations have been taken into account. The most prominent feature is the horseshoe bat inspired crest on the nose, but there are various other details, like the dot pattern on the forehead, the forehead generally slightly pulled forward to reshape the head marginally, the reshape of the cheekbone, a slight overall size reduction and the removal of one of the upper teeth (although, in hindsight I might have let that stay - not gonna touch it anymore, though).
Originally made for 2.0.* - I think - it's adjusted for 2.3.* (which was only one number in the mod file anyway, as Paradox made no changes in the use of the portraits). There are also no new clothes so the male ones get used. Sadly I only have Photoshop so no shape or animation changes but it's good enough for me - and much better than a monomorph one.

Enjoy.
9 Comments
Otto Abnormalverbraucher  [author] 25 Jul, 2023 @ 12:33pm 
@si Vonne: Yeah, unfortunately nothing I can do about. For a couple years now Paradox forces you to login with your Paradox account if you want to upload to Steam. However, their login is utterly broken, it won't let me login, it won't let me reset my password, it won't let me create an account. I do not get any message besides some random "doesn't work" or in the case of password reset, I just never receive their confirmation mail. And I cannot contact their support because you need to be logged in for that.
si Vonne 22 Jul, 2023 @ 11:40am 
As of now(3.8.4), it doesn't seem to be working
Smaug 30 Apr, 2020 @ 1:00pm 
Excellent mod.
Freedom 35 13 Nov, 2019 @ 8:33am 
as if they needed to be uglier. 10/10
Otto Abnormalverbraucher  [author] 6 Nov, 2019 @ 2:42pm 
Thanks everyone. Well, I'd say if you've played The Witcher with its various vampire species (i.e. shaping various degrees between bats and humans) it's easy to see the bat resemblance ... sort of.

@TurtleShroom: I wouldn't say they're *supposed* to be bats but rather inspired by them, like many of the other species.

@Kennywnorth: Bat ears vary in size; there are comparably small ones.

And yeah, I basically use them as a species living in jungle worlds with treetops so dense barely any light reaches the bottom (hence the sort of parallel evolution of bat traits). Religious, militaristic and xenophobic they see themselves as superior to others and as chosen to dominate the galaxy. So they enslave, purge and enjoy to engage in wars.
But feel free to let their looks belie their character, make them pacifistic and friendly. I did enjoy to take the cute little butterflies and turn them into the devouring swarm, haha.
TurtleShroom 6 Aug, 2019 @ 9:45am 
I thought they were supposed to be evil or represent raiders, or something like that. Or, they were just generic bipedal monsters, like Orks. Go figure.
Kennywnorth 4 Aug, 2019 @ 4:08pm 
the ears should be big like a bat's wth
SoulDoubt 31 Jul, 2019 @ 4:47pm 
Hat's off. Your skill (and... bravery? stomach? ... to be able stare at these things long enough to mod them) astound me. Awesome job.

@TurtleShroom: Same, I always just thought of them as "the most hideous thing in Stellaris."
TurtleShroom 31 Jul, 2019 @ 10:11am 
THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BATS?! Holy crawfish, I never realized that!