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Unique Minor Races

Description
This mod adds unique portraits for some of the minor races that had none.

Star control Origins has a large number of minor races.
Unfortunately, the base game fails to provide unique artwork for them, and thus, many of the minor species use identical graphics. This breaks immersion and makes all the races feel the same. This mod seeks to correct that by providing original artwork for most of the minor races in Star Control Origins.

Currently supported races (I plan to add more):

Boscan
Gamma Fatum Civilisation
Harmony
Havan
Hurnese
Irulian
Jebyoux
Muaertreaze
Pik
Sacra
Shantid
Ure
Vulzon/Vault pirates
Xelnathi
Yim
Yuggoth
Yulra
Zoq

Most of these have newly drawn art by me, with exception of the Harmony, Vulzon, Muaertreaze, Xelnathi and Shantid: for these the game actually already had assets that were only used in fleet combat mode, but that were for some reason never implemented in the adventure game.

The Zoq and Pik now have art that is in line with their star control 2 heritage :-). The mod only changes/adds graphics so it should be fine with any localisation/translation of the game.
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BroncoXeno2035 3 Jun, 2024 @ 6:51pm 
There's a another race, the Escotti, in Beta Granalus, right next to Measured Space, where they just use the Xontar Merchant Profile Pic
Bralbaard  [author] 23 Apr, 2024 @ 3:25pm 
Added the Gamma fatum civilisation, and changed the Irulian picture. The game is not very clear about what is a Boscan and what an Irulian, the portraits are now more alike as well.
Bralbaard  [author] 22 Apr, 2024 @ 11:28am 
I just played through the expansion a few weeks ago, but do not remember meeting a space whale. Turns out I never did the Mu'kay quests as I did the quests for the other races first and the game thought I did enough, and skipped the Mu'kay stuff

Anyhow. It's a shame the game only displays 128x128 pictures for the minor species. I have many of the races at higher resolution, but all those pixels are wasted.
SpencerGamer 21 Apr, 2024 @ 7:23pm 
As for DLC reuses, I think one of the strangest is the Space Whale using the Amror/Yuptar image.... when its KERRY talking lol
SpencerGamer 21 Apr, 2024 @ 3:02pm 
Once I get to actually play this I'm absolutely gonna make a video to show it off on my channel!
SpencerGamer 21 Apr, 2024 @ 2:53pm 
Yeah the Halgoth picture atleast fits their races pompous vibe, they're apparenly tentalcd but that doesn't need to be visible.
Bralbaard  [author] 21 Apr, 2024 @ 2:49pm 
That wiki on minor species is a great resource as well!
The Jebyoux ended up becoming creepy spider like creatures in the current version. I certainly will keep the generic tentacled one in for something.

The Harshiro from the DLC also seems to use the same graphic as the Halgothi from Altair. I think I'll let the Halgothi keep their graphic, if I get to replacing the DLC duplicates.
SpencerGamer 21 Apr, 2024 @ 2:42pm 
I'm glad my videos have been of some use, I also did that unfinished minor race list on the Star Control wiki!
SpencerGamer 21 Apr, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
I sadly won't be able to test the mod for a day or two, but I think the Generic Tentacle alien should be used for atleast one race lol, I would have said Boscans but you already made are for them. Maybe the Havans.

I once has the idea that the Jebyoux would be like, hermit crab aliens, since they use the arthopodal xontar picture and one seems to use a stolen Harshiro ship (since we seem to enocunter a proper harshiro in the dlc)
Bralbaard  [author] 21 Apr, 2024 @ 2:37pm 
@Spencergamer: some of those videos you put up have been of great use to trace and find some of the minor races.

I agree that the Irulian/Boscan and in general the syndicate are a confusing mess. For now I've just used the new Boscan portrait for anything clearly labelled "Boscan" in the game files, but there are still many encounters that use that tentacled placeholder picture. I might make a separate picture for the mining bases, because I think there is no clear indications that they are Boscan, and being rude seems to be a shared characteristic amongst all syndicate races.