Big and Small - Framework

This is a framework for adding custom races and greatly extending the ability to do things with Genes and Hediffs.

The mod is frequently performance-tested and aims to bring bliss even to the Performance Junkies over at Dubs Discord. If you think you've encountered any performance issues during regular play related to this mod please feel free to inform me.

The mod used to be dependent on the Biotech DLC, but this is no longer the case.

It can to a be used as a more limited but less performance intensive alternative to Humanoid Alien Races (HAR). It is also fully compatible with HAR itself.

Custom Races (with or without Biotech)

The framework supports making and switching between custom races either via genes or by defining a custom race similar to HAR.

The framework handles most of what you'd expect. Custom inhuman bodies/body parts, disabling thoughts, forcing bodies, filtering/forcing traits, food diets, apparel, genes, custom graphics, and so on.

Here is a guide on how to make your own custom races with or without Biotech:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360668794 The guide goes through the process of how to create the very sane race shown above.

You're encouraged to download the sample mod and go through the files and read the comments as you go through the guide. Feel free to ask questions on the guide or my discord if anything is unclear or you want help with some step. I (probably) don't bite.

Old Description

(What follows is the old mod description. It will be updated once the current planned improvements are done.)

Framework for gene/race features such as genes of different sizes, and well as a variety of gene and graphics behavior, such as transformations, genes varying by body-type, and so on.

Most of the images in the reel above are very out of date.

Body-swapping

You can swap the bodies of pawns using genes, this lets you e.g. create a terrifying pawn with 8 arms each with an eyeball in the palm.

The catch is that you need to swap to a specific body, you can't mix half of one and half of another.

The Lamia/Naga mod has an example of performing a swap like this.

Facial Animation Gene Compatibility

Adds the ability to disable/enable Features from NL's Facial animation mod via genes. Currently limited to disabling the facial animations on particular pawns due to NL's rework breaking my old method. https://imgur.com/IF8OUX6 https://imgur.com/Ij6Bb5h

Transformation back and forth

The Framework supports turning into different forms with different bodytypes, furskin, etc., and then back again to the previous state.

Pawn Size and Orientation

This part of the framework adds methods for changing the size of creatures via StatDefs that can be applied from genes, hediffs, races (such as custom races). Changing the non-cosmetic changes applies a large number of effects to large/small creatures such as altered rendering size, health, damage, metabolism, self-production, etc.

The size changes are balanced to be in line with Vanilla Rimworld. The cosmetic size-scaling of sprites are non-linear, f.ex. a human baseliner scaled to body size 10.0 would not render 10x larger.

Here are a few of the commonly used sized-related StatDefs:

Body Size Offset & Cosmetic Body Size Offset

Offsets the pawns body size in an additive way. The latter version is cosmetic only and won't affect game-mechanics.

E.g. a body size 0.5 HAR race with a 0.6 offset would end up body size 1.1and render roughly twice as large.

Body Size Multiplier

Just as above, but a multiplier instead.

E.g a x0.75 multiplier applied to a standard body size 4.0 Elephant would reduce its body size to 3.0

Head Size Multiplier

Increases or decreases the size of the character's head.

This can be preferable to just drawing the head texture larger for some gene-based heads since it will scale the headgear.

Other

There are stats for offsetting the pawn's world position, head position, and so on. For more info take a look in the StatDef .xml file in the mod.

Other Big and Small/Better Prerequisites Features

For instructions on how to f.ex. make infectious gene-based werewolves that change shape under the moon check out the Discord linked at the bottom of this page.

Better Prerequisites

Ages ago this was merged B&S Framework.

Better Prerequisite lets you create genes and hediffs that disable genes. Hediffs can even disable genes that disable genes. You cannot have genes that disable genes that disable genes because of how it was written to avoid recursion..

For any Gene mod authors can specify any number of condition sets that must all be fulfilled for the gene to activate.

This being a framework it does nothing on its own.

Unlike the vanilla prerequisite system genes with prerequisites from this mod can still spawn in genepacks or via random gene-generation.

Valid XML tags are: AnyOf, AllOf, NoneOf. More could easily be added if someone wants XOR and stuff such as that.

Other Random Stuff

Gameplay Improvements and Etc.

AI

• AI normally won't use combat-self-buff abilities. With this mod they will.

• AI normally won't use hostile abilities in melee range. With this mod they will.

Damage

• Lets you apply damage that won't randomly penetrate into people's internal organs. (DamageWorker_Outer...)

• Lets you have damage multipliers to more specific damage types (e.g. bullets, concussive, ...)

Misc

• Lets you make genes affect the size of raids as an alternative/addition to metabolism costs.

• A whole bunch of other stuff. Feel free to use XML stuff from my other mods as inspiration. :)

Facial Animation Disabled for Nal's Faces via a special gene.

There are also options that just disable specific facial features, but most of those are for other modders require you to supply a gene-graphic as a head.

Compatibility

Compatible with most mods. Safe to add to existing saves.

Feel free to make requests for features if there