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The Undying

Vampire themed species. Optional vampire paragon and civic

Currently included:
Animated vampire-themed portraits. All clothes and hair attached to base bodies.
Smaller set of animated armored warriors I use as the prepatent species.
A couple optional species traits called undead and familiar (not available to AI). They are intended to not be game breaking, but may or may not be balanced.
One vampire themed room with a sarcophagus.
An "undead" name list that is essentially just Romanian names.

2/7: Added species localisation so should no longer see things such as "Undying_insult_01."
2/12: Added male portraits
2/13: Per request have made the armored husks available on their own as machines https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2932990737
2/15: Fixed an issue with some names showing up with ? in the name list. Added male names to name list. Also fixed an issue where AI would only ever use the default room.
2/19: Added several new female portraits
2/19: Created a separate achievement friendly version of this mod https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2936179513 that does not change the checksum, but does replace one of the humanoid portraits

Some people have asked for a tutorial on how to do these:
The basic process is to use Stable Diffusion with OpenPose to get the texture in the correct pose. Then use existing meshes from Stellaris to get the animation. Look through the current portraits and find one that is shaped similarly and moves similarly to how you want yours to move and use that mesh for your portraits.

Rather than try and recreate the wheel and not do it at as well as others already have.

https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Portrait_modding - Everything you need to know to get started making portraits in Stellaris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXEyhM3Djqg - Everything you need to know to get started with stable diffusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhqqmkTBMlU - Everything you need to know to get started using OpenPose

All my main Stellaris mods
Undying - Vampire Portraits: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2929712945
Aesir - WH40K inspired portaits: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934163745
Stellar Legions - Continually updated portraits of multiple varieties: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939702822