Vox Race

[13spacemen]

Special Thanks

Falcon2346 from /vg/station for spriting a lot of Vox specific clothing, such as the artist, mining medic, clerk, rsecurity, robotics, paramedic, engineer, atmos, chief engieer uniforms; the labcoat and chem labcoat, the winterhood

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Adds the famous Vox race (originally from Baystation, added in ~2013), and found on many servers like Shiptest or Paradise or /vg/

Vox are a race of nitrogen-breathing aliens. Originally a tight-knit species who lived aboard arkships, they now find themselves working on Nanotrasen space stations.

• Oxygen is extremely toxic to Vox
• you spawn with a pocket double nitrogen tank [which lasts forever on most servers, can be adjusted on yogs if refilling is better] and face mask, your emergency box has a nitrogen tank
• can choose to spawn with a large n2 tank which runs out faster and can't go in pockets (challenge mode?)
• they have blue blood, and can only accept their own V blood type
• own language, Vox-pidgin, which sounds like shrieking
• their organs are partially synthetic (lorewise) and vulnerable to EMPs
• they can't be cloned due to a complex physiology
• their organs, again cuz they're partially synthetic, don't decay at all
• have a lot of species-specific clothing sprites [there is a system in the code for this, like digitigrade and monkeys]
• have their own special "hair" [quills] and facial quills
• body markings
• 9 different skin tones
• waggable tail with customizable tail markings
• can be cooked into Kentucky Fried Vox
• cool shriek sound
• have their own plushie
• 2 additional suicide lines [hey its something!]
• custom husk icon, with blue blood, and the tail gets husked too!
• cold resistance

Why is this good for the game?

This is a classic and well-loved race, and the original v1 Vox are only available on Baycode servers [and Daedalus Dock]

This is the FIRST TIME (apart from DD) where this epic race is on TG code

And this is the most feature complete Vox port. While the older TG ports are fine, they always forget to port clothing, don't add support for customization, or don't add the little things like the Vox plushie.

They have a unique alien shape and culture, leading to more engaging and fun RP.

They are NOT a furry race, the race was made before people started SS13 furry servers like skyrat and citadel, and there are absolutely no furry/sexual features.

Feel free to suggest features or general neat stuff to add to the race

Code-wise, need to make it modular (does it need to be?), and clean up the code a little

Pics

What about Vox Raiders?

The Vox Raiders spacesuits are in, I am kind of burnt out just by adding the race though. I definitely want to add in Vox Raiders as a subcategory of Pirates, with their special weapons like the Spike Thrower and their Skipjack ship. Maybe the Vox Armalis too? But most other servers don't have a functional Vox Raiders yet so you're not missing out (yet).

Oak's words echoed; "There's a time and place for everything, but not now!"

Changelog

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add: The Head of Personnel has received job applications from the Vox Shoal add: Check out the cool flags in the Gift Vendor! add: Mimes FINALLY get their own hugbox! /:cl:

Credits

Zuhayr from Bay for creating the race, /vg/ and Paradise for maintaining it, Oracle devs for porting it to TGcode first, JuptyrKat and Kapu1178 for porting it to more recent TGcode

New Vox sprites from https://github.com/ParadiseSS13/Paradise/pull/23502 Edited by me because there were a LOT of sprite errors in there, (good quality art though, just incomplete cropping)

Vox signaltech uniform done by me

Special Thanks

Falcon2346 from /vg/station for spriting a lot of Vox specific clothing, such as the artist, mining medic, clerk, rsecurity, robotics, paramedic, engineer, atmos, chief engieer uniforms; the labcoat and chem labcoat, the winterhood

[ynot01]

What license were these sprites sourced from and how will the license be complied with (if necessary)?

[13spacemen]

@ynot01 these current sprites are newer polished sprites by @Alecksohs from Paradise, which is AGPL-3.0

[ynot01]

@ynot01 these current sprites are newer polished sprites by @Alecksohs from Paradise, which is AGPL-3.0

From Paradise README.md

Please source the commit and/or pull request these originated from on Paradise

[Moltijoe]

Whats the reasoning behind a bunch of their internal organs being robotic?

[AMyriad]

Okay I'm a big fan of new races, and of ye enthusiasm to make this PR despite some of the eyebrows raised on the discord. That bein said, I think they'd need a bit more to stand out, as almost every feature they have exists on another race. Aversion to air? Forced to breathe from internals? Plasmamen. Tail? Unique blood type? Lizards. Colored blood? Skin tones? Almost every race. Special language? Every race.

I'd say the most interesting thing they have going for them is the cybernetic stuff. Otherwise, They're really not that far gameplay-wise from being a lizard with augments.

I'm not familiar with how interesting/different the races are on other servers, but I'm not sure if people would find this to be an interesting addition to the roster.

[13spacemen]

@ynot01 added to OP

@Moltijoe the lore on servers is different, but something that they all have in common is that Vox are semi-synthetic and are somewhat "created" by a more intelligent species based on the DNA of an ancient race

This code is somewhat from Oracle, which based their Vox on Paradise's one. On Para when you get EMPed as Vox you get stunned for a while, your movement gets screwed up like Ling Res Shriek, and other effects

@AMyriad they used to have low pressure resistance, and a little tackle ability on Bay/Paradise before it was removed due to balance concerns And I think there are a couple of things on other servers that make them unique, like on Aurora you can choose to have a sprite with 3 eyes, on Shiptest their attacks hurt more (sharp claws) and they are allergic to some common medicines Also they cannot be cloned at all

This is still very much WIP. I'd like to get the barebones species/clothing/etc. sprites all in first and I don't mind adding any unique stuff from other servers or people's ideas

[azzzertyy]

final commit name = pr name. you dont have to care about any other commit names

[Moltijoe]

@Moltijoe the lore on servers is different, but something that they all have in common is that Vox are semi-synthetic and are somewhat "created" by a more intelligent species based on the DNA of an ancient race

ah, so basically preterni

[neeshacark]

@GenericDM look its your favorite race

[Therandomhoboo]

why bird people.... we have fly-people & mothpeople.

[YashinHak]

an entirely new race to write lore for? delightful

[MajManatee]

I cannot condone adding these monstrosities when foxgirls (far better) weren't added.

[Cartlord]

Honestly, I think these guys might make a good donator species.

[Moltijoe]

Honestly, I think these guys might make a good donator species.

Donator species cant have unique mechanics that could potentially be seen as an upside

[cowbot92]

ok fine they're growing on me

[MajManatee]

Nothing unique about them, its all just repurposed stuff from other races, even the lore. We already have unplayed races. While I don't see an issue with more diversity, having it for the sake of having it is nonsense. They are also ugly as hell, but that's neither here nor there. We had a more finished, higher quality, and more wanted race that was denied for some reason before. We've also had a much cooler unique race tossed around for a while that I would much rather see (fish people)

They have a unique alien shape and culture, leading to more engaging and fun RP.

good one. Low hanging fruit, wont bother.

On Para when you get EMPed as Vox you get stunned for a while, your movement gets screwed up like Ling Res Shriek, and other effects

Confusion as a downside is incredibly minimal, but at least its something I guess.

They are NOT a furry race, the race was made before people started SS13 furry servers like skyrat and citadel, and there are absolutely no furry/sexual features.

yeah they are lol. Good try though.

Unique =/= good. snowflake stuff is usually really annoying to work with. In its current state it looks like we are going to have to re-sprite at least every form of shoe they can wear, and probably a lot of uniforms and hats too. That alone is one of my biggest concerns. Plus it makes it harder for new stuff to be made given same.

[13spacemen]

@MajManatee Already said this in discord but just putting it here too for the record

vox already has more than hundreds of sprites from all baycode servers and you dont need special shoe sprites thats optional, the vox feet don't clip through regular shoes

they are not repurposed from other races, the vox race was made in 2013 before most other races even existed

its a very very popular race on paradise, /vg/, urist, aurora, so saying it will be unplayed is just assuming, because i guarantee you it will be played. some dude in this discord already said he cant wait to play it

the vox culture is not low hanging fruit, people DO RP about the culture and lore. people mention the IC vox lore like the skipjack and shoal all the time on pretty much every server they're on

and yes they are not a furry race. if vox are furry then are fishpeople furry? are lizards furry? are polysmorph furry? is anything that isnt synthetic or a modified human furry?

and for your sprite concerns again paradise and /vg/ spriters have already made sprites for everything. even modsuits which are quite new, have vox sprites

you dont have to sprite something specifically for vox. you can just restrict them from wearing it in the code if you don't feel like spriting something. its no big deal its something that you have to accept if you play a uniquely shaped race

[ToasterBiome]

Hi, this was personally approved by me that we'd at least give him the time of day to test this on yogs.

For all intents and purposes, barring lack of work or obvious programming issues this is going to be at least testmerged. Criticizing his idea or squandering his ability isn't going to get it closer to that goal, and is thus unneeded.

[Therandomhoboo]

Hi, this was personally approved by me that we'd at least give him the time of day to test this on yogs.

For all intents and purposes, barring lack of work or obvious programming issues this is going to be at least testmerged. Criticizing his idea or squandering his ability isn't going to get it closer to that goal, and is thus unneeded.

honestly im just bored of animal x human. Be nice to have a different kind of race but w/e 3rd race with wings lets go

[ToasterBiome]

Hi, this was personally approved by me that we'd at least give him the time of day to test this on yogs. For all intents and purposes, barring lack of work or obvious programming issues this is going to be at least testmerged. Criticizing his idea or squandering his ability isn't going to get it closer to that goal, and is thus unneeded.

honestly im just bored of animal x human. Be nice to have a different kind of race but w/e 3rd race with wings lets go

It's surprisingly hard to think of any interesting races.

[Therandomhoboo]

Hi, this was personally approved by me that we'd at least give him the time of day to test this on yogs. For all intents and purposes, barring lack of work or obvious programming issues this is going to be at least testmerged. Criticizing his idea or squandering his ability isn't going to get it closer to that goal, and is thus unneeded.

honestly im just bored of animal x human. Be nice to have a different kind of race but w/e 3rd race with wings lets go

It's surprisingly hard to think of any interesting races.

I guess it also seems silly to do considering the current races are still getting patches to tweak their balance. We also had jelly race which was cool but was left to rot cause fuk that. Just saying a third race with wings isnt really that great. Rather we have golem race cause at least its minerals x humanoid.

[Moltijoe]

honestly im just bored of animal x human. Be nice to have a different kind of race but w/e 3rd race with wings lets go

3rd? there's only moths

[Therandomhoboo]

honestly im just bored of animal x human. Be nice to have a different kind of race but w/e 3rd race with wings lets go

3rd? there's only moths

Technically fly people too.

[Moltijoe]

Technically fly people too.

:clown_face:

[JamieD1]

I miss when they had their own gamemode, rip.

[13spacemen]

PR is in a testmergeable (or mergeable even) state now In future I'd like to refactor hair to not be a mutant bodypart [but even phytosians have mutant bodypart special hair currently, so not a huge deal] and i can modularize it now or in a later PR

[kooarbiter]

as a cook semi main

it's finger lickin good >:D

[Mqiib]

Couple issues I've spotted with the sprites so far, recording for referencing later:

• Some of the labcoats, winter coats, and the captain's stuff still appear to use old sprites, so those will need updated since the new ones are drastically different
• Most of the other suits can be ignored for now
• We have yogs-specific clothes that don't have vox sprites, the IMPORTANT ones being the subtypes of under/yogs/rank, while the rest can also pretty easily be ignored for now
• I'm sure you know by now but the vox preferences seem to be overriding those of the other races, and the vox body markings color is overriding mutant colors
• digitigrade underwear sprites are of the old legs but you can yoink the ones from shiptest probably because they use the same lizards as we do (mostly)

[13spacemen]

I need to figure out how to do Vox GAGS sprites

[Mqiib]

if you can find the corresponding pieces of clothing for vox and just split out the relevant parts (belt pixels, pant legs, etc) and then greyscale those, it shouldn't be TOO hard