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18 Jul, 2018 @ 8:22pm
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More Expressive Saturnians

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1.1: Updated for Saturnians 1.2.x. Now works with the new Saturnian species (Thaumoth) .

Gives Saturnians more expressive emotes.
IMPORTANT!: While this mod is active, eye colors are disabled as they interfere with emotes.

Works with existing characters, but they will have different eyes than before. This mod can be safely uninstalled without losing eye colors. Even characters that were created with this mod will work without it.

This is intended for the base mod, but you could probably load "Make the Saturnians a Cuter Race", OR "Make the Saturnians a Cuter Yet Mothy Race" AFTER this mod to get both human-ish Saturnians and expressive Thaumoth.
17 Comments
Cyan Sky Knight  [author] 26 Feb, 2022 @ 2:00pm 
That's odd. The emote sprite isn't gender specific. Could it be the customization options your characters have?
Aethis 26 Feb, 2022 @ 6:42am 
a request: the thaumoth ones are not gender synced, if male has eyelid partially over, female has it partially under, just one off
Empress Canine 4 Apr, 2019 @ 1:34pm 
do you think you could make it so that it doesn't lose the eye color somehow? if you do thanks!
ColorGreen 6 Nov, 2018 @ 4:48am 
Now waiting for Thaumoth )))))
Karlowi 25 Jul, 2018 @ 4:03pm 
I like!
moomal 22 Jul, 2018 @ 8:24pm 
@Cyan Sky Knight Hmm... there seems to be space for another slot, but it isn't used. Maybe there is a way to add one in.. I'll look into that.
Cyan Sky Knight  [author] 22 Jul, 2018 @ 1:28pm 
As far as I know, each of the four customization options can only change hex values, hair, or facial masks; but not any combination of the three.

Currently I'm using these:
1. Body Color, 29 hex options
2. Fluff Color, 29 hex options
3. Antennae Type (hair), 46 sprite options
4. Face/Fluff Type (Facial Masks), 150 sprite options

If eye colors could be separated from facial masks, there would be only 7 Facial Mask options and 42 eye colors.

The simplest option would be to replace the sprite based Face/Fluff Type with a hex based Eye Color, but then you couldn't select neck fluff/proboscis/eye shapes. Existing characters would not be able to switch to the hex colors without save editing, and would be stuck with the default.

Alternatively if there's any way to reorder the sprite layers for just the Saturnians, then emotes would work and this could be added to the main mod. I think that may be hard-coded though.

moomal 21 Jul, 2018 @ 11:55pm 
Hold on. You do have five. You chose to handle eye color through facial masks. Your stated reason for this was so you could change more than color. But the fluff types which are layered over the eyes thus "changing" the eye shape would be layered over the eyes anyway. If you needed more variety, you could just add more shades to the base eyes. Doing so would also cut down greatly on the amount of facial mask types you needed to create, and this mod could become part of the main one. The only real issue with doing this is that you'd need to enter in a LOT of hex values, which I would gladly do for you if you find the work too tedious.

Please note that this is not supposed to be a criticism, rather it is an offer to help.
My apologies if this comment should be on the main mod.
Cyan Sky Knight  [author] 21 Jul, 2018 @ 9:43pm 
Actually, that's me...

I wanted lots of customization options. There's only support for four options in the character menu though, but to do everything without any sacrifices, I would need five. (Primary Color, Antenna Type, Fluff Color, Eye Color, Fluff Type)
A False Scholar 21 Jul, 2018 @ 8:41pm 
Damnit, why'd the mod maker have to make it complicated in such a damning way....