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Trace's Better Lithoids Lite

This is a mod that sets out to improve the Lithoids DLC portraits with more diversity and colours, plus integrates the abandoned Silfae's Silicoids mod with brand new original looks and fixes.


- Lithoid portraits have much more variety in colour and detail, with more coming each update. Some portraits have as much as double the appearances with a greater range of shape over base portraits. Original palettes maintained sensibly.

- Adds new portraits edited from vanilla files to fit visual niches unused in vanilla. Current focus is more civilised, less bestial 'humanoid' shape Lithoids. There's even Lithoid clothing.
There's so many portraits the vanilla game portrait list can't show them all - I advise using a UI rescale mod.

- Portraits will show up as AI empires, for more potential variation and replayability.

- Revives the Silicoid mod by Silfae.* It's been merged into the Lithoid portrait set, and not content with merely updating I've allocated voice files, improved scaling, made graphical fixes, made original new appearances and a redux of that 'troubled' portrait with a big hole through the torso.

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This is the 'Lite' / lightweight version that ONLY has new Lithoid portraits and diversity for the originals, one of the two rooms, and files I needed to include.

This was made at request, the main mod is much more compatible now, but not everyone wants traits or rebalancing.

Should be achievement compatible but the checksum is so strict I can't promise it.
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* I am against plagiarism or content reupload, but I felt it was worth continuing Silfae's work, since they haven't touched modding for years. I see it as acceptable to add the pack into Lithoids.
If they're objected to me doing this I'll take the portraits out, but the OG mod is broken so somebody has to fix it.

Besides I've actually been fixing and improving their work and have now added whole new appearances.

I recommend 'Random Species Names' for many more Lithoid names:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1827170321

It's not actively updated but here is another, more synthetic, Lithoid shipset:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2085237886

Thanks to Cavmanic for help and allowing me to reverse engineer his fixes!
https://steamproxy.net/id/caparkster/myworkshopfiles/?appid=281990

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Better Necroids mod is up!