More Character Portraits adds 202 thematically-appropriate portraits to the game for both the player and the various game factions to select from.


These portraits are distributed as follows:

• 26 new HEGEMONY portraits
• 18 new SINDRIAN DIKTAT portraits
• 18 new TRI-TACHYON portraits
• 16 new PERSEAN LEAGUE portraits
• 24 new LUDDIC CHURCH / LUDDIC PATH portraits
• 60 new INDEPENDENT portraits
• 40 new PIRATE portraits
  

Unless otherwise stated, the portraits for More Character Portraits were primarily created by kitbashing vanilla Starsector portraits (i.e. swapping heads with armor, etc) and then stitching the composites together using Stable Diffusion (AUTOMATIC1111) via the img2img process to create derivative images, with post-process editing in Photoshop (color tone, resizing, adding additional details, etc) to create the final versions included within this pack.


Method #1: Kitbashing




Method #2: img2img Recycling




If you would like to attempt this style of portrait creation yourself, a text file with the checkpoint model, VAE, and an example prompt (etc) are included in the download file, along with a 512x512 size .png file for importing into Stable Diffusion.



OPTIONAL MODS:

More Character Portraits (Vanilla)
Fully replaces vanilla portraits with slightly tweaked versions for better visual consistency with the main mod.


More Character Portraits (Mods)
Adds 327 portraits (plus 8 optional replacements) to the game for several mod factions to use as follows:

16 new portraits for the Brighton Federation. (preview)
26 new portraits for Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering. (preview)
41 new portraits for Diable Avionics. (preview)
18 new portraits for H.M.I. (preview)
28 new portraits for the Interstellar Imperium. (preview)
32 new portraits for the Roider Union. (preview)
26 new portraits to the game for ScalarTech Solutions. (preview)
30 new portraits to the game for the Star Federation. (preview)
38 new portraits to the game for the Xhan Empire. (preview)
28 new portraits to the game for United Pamed. (preview)

Also includes:

12 new portraits for Independents. (preview)
18 new portraits for Mercenaries. (preview)
14 new portraits for Pirates.(preview)

Please note that these portraits are neither supported nor endorsed by the authors of the faction mods, may not represent the faction author's "vision" of how officers of that faction might look, and should not be considered "official" in any capacity.

Note: This pack is not dependent on any of the mods that it adds portraits to. All portraits are available for player character use. Portraits for specific factions will only appear in-game if that faction is installed. Refer to the included readme file for more details.



CREDITS:

Of the 202 portraits in the main pack, 52 images from other portrait packs were used as a base or as a source of parts for kitbashing.

These packs are as follows:

2 x images from: Battletech Portrait Pack (by Chozo / Harebrained Schemes)
4 x images from: Immersion Friendly Portrait Pack (Red) (by Kwenchin)
9 x images from: Interesting Portrait Pack (by Interestio)
43 x images from: Starsector Portr-Ai-t Pack and Ai Model (by Severian Void)

Special thanks to Fractal Softworks artist David Baumgart, without whom there would be no portraits to begin with.

No images from other portrait packs have been used in the add-on packs.
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USAGE:

Please feel free to use these portraits as a source to create your own portraits, or for use in your own mod (where permitted).

However, as the majority of these portraits are derivatives of vanilla Starsector portraits, please do not use them for mods for other games.



MANUALLY UPGRADING / DOWNGRADING:

If you would like More Character Portraits to work with newer or older versions of Starsector, open the mod_info.json file and change the "gameVersion": value to the version of Starsector that you're currently using.

For example: "gameVersion":"0.96a-RC10", to "gameVersion":"0.95.1a-RC6".