Appreciate it, the more the merrier.

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

The link 404s

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.

Thanks for these!

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.

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 the custom faction files.

The four sub-folders contain the custom art in ".png" format as follows a) LeaderBGs: backgrounds (1920x1028), 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.

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

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