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Animal Diversity

IRONMAN Compatible.

Have you played with the Animal Kingdoms / Animal World settings for the randomized world when Holy Fury was releasted and found it interesting - for a short while? Did you stop playing with it shortly thereafter? Were you annoyed that every single dragon looks the same? Then this mod is for you!

This mod adds variants to all animal cultures. This way, the chance that two male pandas look identical goes down from 100% to almost nothing (there are 192 possible male pandas). So finally, you can recognize animal characters by their appearance.

Since I'm not an artist, don't expect too much. I basically just edited the existing portraits and split them into pieces which are coloured individually based on the animals DNA. Didn't you know that the color of your clothing is determined by your genome?^^

Note: In vanilla, male and female cats and hedgehogs only differ in colour. Since I added a lot of colour variety, the colour of their clothing/fur is not a good indicator for their gender anymore. To add another method of telling them apart, I forced all female cats to wear a turban. As for the hedgehogs: You can only tell the apart by the colour of their gloves (red/pink for females).

Overview (please note that some varieties are rather subtle, but this should give you a general idea of which species to expect more and of which less variety):

160 male dragons, 160 female dragons, two features: Scale and eye colour.
144 male hedgehogs, 144 female hedgehogs, two features: Skin, Shield.
96 male horses, 96 female horses, two features: Fur, hair.
192 male pandas, 192 female pandas, two features: Face, clothing
24 male bears, 24 female bears ( more when you count small varieties), two features: Fur, clothing
256 male cats, 128 female cats, features fur, clothing
1008 male dogs, 64 female dogs, features fur, clothing, (headgear males only)
96 male ducks, 128 female ducks, features: head, clothing
64 male elephants, 48 female elephants, features: skin, clothing

There are so many variants: Why do I keep seeing identical animals in my court (even with a low court size)? - Well, that's just how the math works. Look up the birthday problem.

Thread at the paradox forums: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mod-animal-diversity-portraits.1255939/

Interested in playing as a theocracy? Check out my playable dynastic theocracies mod: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1622945384