New factions for your gaming pleasure

Thanks for sharing! You can never have too many races. I look forward to checking them out in my next game, which could be quite awhile as I'm in an insane sized galaxy with conquest as the only victory condition and I still have a ways to go...

Appreciate it, the more the merrier.

Trying to learn GIMP now myself so I can make some new factions,

Very nice, 

Thank you!

posted on my mod compilation thread. (hopefully that is okay with you.) nice job btw

link: https://forums.galciv3.com/465803/page/1/#3552058

Trying to make a simple race, just stock Teran with a few aditional Traits, but I'll be dammed if I can find where the hell to put the file. Once I figure that out, I'll Put these in for sure! I just hate how Steam moves things around, so its not exactly where most guides suggest it should go. 

These are awesome.

Every time the Predator like one pops up and asks for a simple trade I feel like screaming "DON'T ATTACK ME"

Also, the cute eyeballs are hard to take seriously when they are demanding tribute..

Thanks!  I did not really expect people to play with the pink baby, but it was art I just couldn't ignore.  They are cute enough to conquer the galaxy!

i think if you spent alittle more time you could make thme an interesting faction perhapbs they are a bunch of cute creatures that are the most vicious mother fuckers ever created. yea its ironic and cliche but i think that picture deserves more. maybe they are obssessed with shiny objects and canabilizing eachother? seems interesting

Wifidi, if you know how to mod things beyond the range of what you can do in the custom race menu of the game, by all means.

Why are some of the races shortchanged on their abilities and traits? Multiple races only have one of two traits and don't have all abilities spent.

Just took a look at the mod, can't wait to add it to my game, thanks, and great job!

The link 404s

Yes, I am uploading a new folder...it will be live again in about 1 hour.  But there will 19 factions rather than 10.  Sorry for the inconvenience while my poor Internet connection uploads...

Update, reflected in original post:

Now there are 20 custom factions, with new alien art and (mainly) new logos.  19 are serious, one is for fun, but they all work.  There is some pre-existing logo art from a different author on this forum (which I can no longer find, oddly) that I had downloaded too.

The big 100MB file contains 19 factions in a factions folder.  The small Mendax one is a 20th race, with just the required art to be allocated in each of the relevant folders plus the faction file proper.

I note a comment that some of the races do not use all possible points.  That is correct as I allocated points based on their fictional personalities to make them feel different.  Additional points can be easily added by downloaders with the "copy" faction function.  I focused on cleaning up source art to make it compatible with the game and providing what I hope are interesting narratives.  Feel free to tweak things to suit your own games.

You're on a roll, keep going!

Thanks for these!

The Chimeran Control faction file is in here twice, other than that looks pretty good and I like the descriptions you made

Are you planning to add specialized ship styles for each faction?

Thanks for the note Xenvar.  The extra Chimera file can be deleted (the one with the oldest time stamp) as I had forgotten originally to make the Chimera evil, which I edited to fix after.

I don't plan to make customized ship styles for these, as with 20 new races this would turn a hobby into a full-time task.  Of course, other members of the modding community may take that challenge on.  With a little bit from everybody, the universe will just get richer.

THX for the mod. Where do I have to copy these folders? How do I install the mod?

thx ahead

DeutschRitter, the additional factions data go in your Factions folder, which would be in something like My Documents/My Games/GalCiv3.

In Factions, you will find a) four sub-folders and b) the custom faction files.

The four sub-folders contain the custom art in ".png" format as follows a) LeaderBGs: backgrounds (1920x1028), b) LeaderFGs: large portraits (1920 x 1080) c) Logos : logos(!) (128 x 128) and d) Portraits: small portraits (128 x 128).

So when you download materials, you need to move the downloaded content into the right folders of your Factions folder group.  The faction files themselves go directly into the Factions folder, they don't have a subfolder of their own.

When you start the game, the game reads the faction files (i.e. ".faction") and these are the custom races that will appear in your main screen, ready to select.  As well, the art in the various subfolders of Factions can be chosen by the user when they wish to make a custom faction of their own.  As an example, you will see that in my download I added in Factions another folder, called Unused, which the game has no use for.  This folder contains alternative Human art that you can move into LeaderBGs and Portraits so that if you want you can either make a new faction with this art, or replace the Terran Alliance art for a change.

Thank you ser.

Well, when my own race project is finished you can take a look at my work and if you like it I could always look into designing custom ships for your races as well if no one else has taken on the project by that point

Awesome, thanks for the custom factions. 

Added another 11 custom races.  They are in their own zip so you don't need to download all of them again if you've used my earlier ones.  They are in the Factions 21-31 zip.  And they take the total up to, you guessed it, 31.

If you have fun with them and have amusing game anecdotes, please feel free to share. 

Cheers

Added to the compendium under:

Totally Original Races and Factions

Great work man