Simple Blinking Animation

This mod adds a simple blinking animation to humanlike pawns in vanilla-looking style. Does not depend on [NL] Facial Animation! Low performance impact, and several people have commented that it "makes pawns feel more alive!"

Features

• Eyes close and open in a randomized idle loop (~4 seconds, slower than the preview image)

• Eyes close when asleep

• Option in Mod Settings for corpses to have eyes open or closed (default is closed)

• Works with all vanilla humanalike pawns and can work with all modded humanlike pawns (no blink animation on unsupported pawns, easily extensible)

• Compatible with Biotech eye colors, EyeGenes2 textures, Glowing Eye Genes

Includes support for the core game, Biotech, and Anomaly. (Sorry for the low res preview gifs. Gif files have to be under 2mb to add to the workshop page. Looks much better in-game!)

Core heads now have HD textures! DLC textures currently use base-game resolutions (128x128). Working next on some higher-def textures for the DLCs!

Some commenters have said it works well in multiplayer!

Known Issues:

• Portraits don't blink. Portrait eyes should close when sleeping in bed spots, though.

• Statues have eyelids closed, figuring this one out Fixed! And then fixed again!

• Metalblood shader not shading lids Fixed!

• Can look weird with xenotypes with head attachments. Working on adding a per-xenotype toggle! With it, I'd also like to add a default lid that you can choose to use for a xenotype, since most heads will probably look at least okay with it. Added per-xenotype toggle and a default eyelid texture!

If there are any other issues, please let me know!

Easily Extensible

To support new head types, simply add east and south eyelid textures at this file location with this naming scheme (be sure to use the HeadTypeDef):

Textures/Things/Pawn/Humanlike/Eyelids/HeadTypeDef_Closed_south.png
Textures/Things/Pawn/Humanlike/Eyelids/HeadTypeDef_Closed_east.png

See the textures in the mod for examples! For the best look, be sure there are no low opacity pixels, and be sure to fully cover the eye on the head texture.

And for even better look, make sure your lids match up texture-wise with the head! As an example, the Gaunt lids in this mod include the shaded eye socket.

Mods with Blinking!

Some rockstar modders have added support for blinking! If more mods add compatibility, I'll list them here.

• [LFS] Genes Expanded - Heads

• Erin's Corvyia

• Erin's Fenrisúlfr

• Erin's Shisune

• Erin's FFXIV Races - Au Ra

• Erin's Auronya

• Anthosonae Patch

• Reese's Avali Race 2

A little support goes a long way! If you’d like to help me keep creating, you can do so on Ko-fi!