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IMPORTANT FOR EXISTING USERS: As of version 0.6 released on 2/20/23, many hairstyles have been completely removed from the mod and the big eyes on males are DEFAULT! If you were using the mod before this version and want your existing felins to have their hair back, you can install this patch to fix it. Additionally if you would like the male eyes to revert to their previous appearance, a new patch has been created for this specifically.

A patch that makes Kawa's Felin race mod more... well, ANIME. This REQUIRES the original Felin mod to function!

Why, though?

I made this a while ago for personal use because none of the other felin patches on the workshop went ALL THE WAY in terms of body, face, and hair sprites being made to match Cutebound's style... so I made my own.

I've actually made TWO different Cutebound patches for the Felin mod: a version which radically changes Felins into nekomimi-style characters as much as the default Cutebound alters Avians into harpies, but ALSO a version which I would personally describe as more faithful to the original Felin vision - albeit in a Cutebound-esque style - which keeps the felins' fur intact.

This is the furred version.

The kemonomimi version can be found here - do NOT install both mods at once, and make sure that any additional patches you install are for the version of the mod you have installed!



What's been changed:

- The face, body, and head sprites are altered to look similar to Cutebound's, but still use the proper frames files for the Felins mod's custom sized spritesheets, so they'll still actually work with some other mods made to work with the base Felins mod(so long as they don't try to wholesale replace the same things).

- Males have the same size eyes as female characters by default to be better in line with Felin lore, although this actually differs from default Cutebound. A patch exists to change this if you don't like it.

- All of the default Felin hairstyles have been replaced and added to, primarily using modified human hairstyles found in Cutebound; these were ALL edited to allow Felin ears to look right with them. Many hairstyles also have several 'variants' with accessories in up to two color variants, either a gold/silver metallic accessory or a black/white nonmetallic accessory. Some unique hairstyles from the base Felin mod have also been adapted to Cutebound style and are used in this mod.

- The eye sclera color changes with the belly color! Some options might look odd because of overlap between fur/belly colors, but you can still mix and match to get something nice!

- Some custom personal easter egg hairstyles have been added in. Because reasons.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

- Other mods that alter the visuals of Felin assets are EXTREMELY UNLIKELY to work right if installed alongside this! Before reporting an issue, please check if it happens with nothing but this mod and Felins installed, because the issue might be a different mod trying to do something similar!

- This mod requires the Felin race mod to function. It's intended to be installed alongside Cutebound so that the art styles don't clash as much, but technically it could be used without Cutebound if you wanted.

- It's recommended you make a brand- new Felin character after installing this because of the hairstyle changes. While the colors might be okay if you uninstall, your felin will likely be bald if you used a hairstyle that is exclusive to the mod.

- Felins created without this mod might be bald because of hairstyle file discrepancies. It's best to ensure that everyone who's playing(server and client) all use this mod to avoid weirdness.

- If the Felin mod updates in the future with changes to the file felin.species, this mod will likely need to be updated to reflect that. This is because I opted to use the method Cutebound itself uses to replace the species file itself before patching it in order to add new hairstyles and such while ensuring the colors used are the correct ones; if this ever becomes a problem, let me know and I'll try to fix that.

ADDONS

Classic Male Eyes - For if you want felin male eyes to match the rest of standard Cutebound style, even if it's less lore friendly!
Manga Emotes compatibility: Emotes of Cuter Felins will fit the aesthetic style of Karute's Manga Emotes mod!
Detailed Patch - Combines this mod's aesthetics with Kester's Detailed Felin, giving Felin characters mittens and ear tufts!
Detailed Patch with Classic Male Eyes - Combines the Detailed Patch with the Classic Male Eyes patch!



COMPATIBLE MODS:

- As far as I can tell, this patch is entirely compatible with the extra colors added by Felins Fur+ without issue. In fact, I recommend using it with this for more color variety!

- Anything which adds new hairstyles to Felins in its native format.
- Anything that patches the Felins in a way unrelated to their visual assets should theoretically work. This is a visual overhaul.

INCOMPATIBLE MODS(Check for these in your installation before reporting an issue!):

- Anything which also attempts replaces any of the head, body, and emote sprites of felins will be jank if installed alongside this.
- Anything else which completely replaces the felin.species file
- Anything which adds new hair colors to Felins(other than Felin Fur+) that doesn't have the same 4 distinct colors in its palette used by Cutebound(vanilla uses 3 by default)

CREDITS:

Kawa for making the Felins exist. You are my hero for making catgirls and catboys exist in Starbound from even the early days, and the whole reason my patches existing is so that the excellent content in the Felins mod which is unrelated to the character appearances can be enjoyed without breaking immersion while using Cutebound.

Kawa'sStarbound JSON Lab[helmet.kafuka.org] was also a huge help when I was first teaching myself how to use JSON to make Starbound mods years ago. Bless.

barb-tan and HDoomGuy for Make the Universe a Cuter Place (Cutebound), I love the visual overhaul and without their work, this mod wouldn't exist.

Annuschka, who made AnTiHair - their hairstyles were adapted for Cutebound and thus made their way here as well.

Patchwork536, who also made hairstyles which were first adapted by Cutebound and then used in this mod.
20 Comments
Not February  [author] 1 Apr, 2023 @ 5:49am 
@Realra

Thanks for catching that. Should all be fixed now
Realra 19 Mar, 2023 @ 3:06pm 
The name of the mod internally is "cutebound_felins_furry" while all the patches look for "cutebound_felins_alt". Additionally the male eyes patches have an incorrect file hierarchy, making them not function at all regardless of load order.
Vaitsuki 21 Feb, 2023 @ 12:59pm 
Can confirm everything works fine again, thanks!
Not February  [author] 21 Feb, 2023 @ 10:37am 
Should be fixed now
Not February  [author] 21 Feb, 2023 @ 10:31am 
Oh jeez. I'll check that out right away
Vaitsuki 21 Feb, 2023 @ 12:42am 
Oh dear. It seems the update has completely broken my game. Even with the old hair patch, it instantly crashes when it tries to load the title screen. Only solution that worked was removing the mod. A shame but no major character loss thankfully.
Not February  [author] 12 Aug, 2021 @ 8:43am 
I've actually been meaning to make a patch that basically merges this mod with Detailed Felin, which does also include mittens. I've gotten the go-ahead from the author, I just haven't gotten around to making it yet

https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2049939228&searchtext=detailed+felin
PL Cinto 1 Aug, 2021 @ 7:32am 
Can you make a compatibility with the Felin Mittens mod? Sometimes they don't have them.
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1339351968&searchtext=mittens
RQ 17 Nov, 2020 @ 1:46am 
jesus fucking christ Damien
Kawa 10 Sep, 2020 @ 5:17am 
I'm Kawa and I approve this mod. And disapprove of Damien's caffeine habits.