Despicable 2 Core Mod

Despicable 2 Mod adds a comprehensive character and interaction framework to RimWorld, featuring manual social interactions, advanced facial animations, a Hero system with Karma and Reputation, and a powerful multi-pawn animation system designed for both players and modders.

Despicable 2 Features

Overview

Despicable 2 Core is the foundation of Despicable 2’s features.

It is a character and interaction framework for RimWorld that adds manual social interactions, facial animations, Despicable face-part visuals, a Hero / Karma / Reputation system, and an advanced multi-pawn animation framework.

It also serves as the base for the official NSFW expansion.

The project is designed to be community-friendly and addon-friendly, allowing other modders to build on it.

Features at a Glance

• Manual Social Interactions: Includes Vanilla Social Interactions Expanded Mod support.
• Facial animations with advanced auto-patching: Includes Pawn Editor Forked Mod support. NL Facial Animation replaces this feature, and should not be used if you want modded head type compatibility.
• Hero System: Features Karma, Ideological Standing, and Reputation, with Perspective Shift Mod support.
• Advanced Multi-Pawn Animation Framework and Studio.

Detailed Features

Manual Social Interactions

Take a more active role in your colony’s social life.

Instead of waiting for everything to happen in the background, you can directly trigger valid social actions such as chatting, insulting, social fighting, and marriage proposals.

Facial Animation

Core includes custom face parts that automatically replace vanilla eyes, without replacing head textures, and scale automatically based on age and size using cached runtime masking.

This provides automatic support for a wide range of head types, helping visuals fit more naturally across different pawn appearances with minimal manual setup. Faces can also be edited using Pawn Editor Forked Mod.

Hero System

The Hero System adds a colony-focused progression layer built around a chosen active hero.

Track Karma, Ideological Standing, and Reputation as your hero gains social weight over time across other individual pawns, settlements, and factions.

Advanced Animation Framework

Includes a multi-stage, multi-pawn animation framework for more dynamic and visually involved interactions.

Compatibility notes

Compatibility

• Hard incompatibilities: None so far.
• Supported mods:
  • NL Facial Animation Mod: Replaces the mod’s custom facial animations.
  • Pawn Editor Forked Mod: Allows editing of custom face parts.
  • Perspective Shift Mod: Integrates karma module and manual interactions.
• The original Despicable had known incompatibilities with HAR, Big and Small, and Anomaly. These issues have been addressed in Despicable 2 and have not resurfaced so far.
• As with large mod lists, edge cases may still occur.
• Supported languages: English, 简体中文, Deutsch, Русский, Français, Español.

Requirements

• Required: RimWorld 1.6.
• Optional support: NL Facial Animation, Pawn Editor.

Migration & Save Notes

A new save is recommended. Make backups before installing on an existing save.

FAQ

• Is it compatible with CE?: Patches were made and this type of mod should not significantly affect CE, but it is not fully guaranteed. Backup your save before testing.
• What happens if I use NLFA?: NLFA takes over the facial layer, while the mod continues handling its broader systems and animations.
• Does this still have the old HAR / Big and Small / Anomaly issues?: These were issues in the original Despicable and have not reappeared in Despicable 2.
• How does it perform?: Very low performance cost considering its features, and tested to work with most performance mods.

Additional credits: DCSzar, Ogam, c0ffeeeeeeee