Better Looking Garbs is a portrait overhaul mod combining portrait DLC and custom new material to add diversity in clothing and styles for many of the games cultures. The faces, clothing, hair and beard-styles of each source has been recombined to create new portraits. These new portraits fill the holes still unserviced with cosmetic DLC and add gradations to the existing portrait sets. In addition to the portraits there are updates to the army and councillor avatar models. While based around the use of DLC assets these are not required, an installer will add dependent parts of the mod selectively.
Features:
- Over 60 portrait sets with several additional early, late and religious variants.
- 6 Vanilla face sets before portrait packs.
- 15 Vanilla clothing sets.
- Improved vanilla Muslim faces in Arabic and African variations.
- Additional beards for the western and Muslim sets.
- Dynamic child portraits with hair/eye colour and size scaling.
- Helmet and armour variants for higher ranking nobles of most outfits.
- Replacements and additions to the religious clothing.
- Additional effects for wounds, diseases and other traits.
- Artifacts and pets can appear in the portrait.
- Expanded set of backgrounds and their selection logic.
- Selection of hair- and beardstyles based on updated numbers and criteria.
- Many tweaks to selection of headgear and clothing.
- Customize Appearance decision to pick your own outfit and look.
- Script to increase ethnic diversity of newly spawned characters.
- Script to select the look of mixed offspring.
- Lighting and colour adjustment for several portrait pack faces such as Berber and Ugric.
- Rebalanced unit graphical weights to increase diversity and tone down special units.
- New unit pack recombinations.
- More variations of the vanilla unit models.
- Vanilla unit models are replaced with early unit packs when available.
- Added missing holy order cavalry model combinations.
- Councillor avatar model packs are recombined for additional cultures and religions.
- Holy order units are also serve as marshal avatars.
Installation:
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Extract the downloaded mod or subscribe to the workshop version.
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If using the modular workshop version, open Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/mod/betterlookinggarbs.zip and extract betterlookinggarbsinstall.exe (Windows) or betterlookinggarbsinstall.sh (Linux/Mac)
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Windows: Run betterlookinggarbsinstall.exe Linux: Open a terminal and type cd "~/.paradoxinteractive/Crusader Kings II/mod" && bash betterlookinggarbsinstall.sh MacOS: Open a terminal and type cd "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/mod" && bash betterlookinggarbsinstall.sh The installer will selectively add DLC dependent files and compatibility add-ons to the mod based on your installation.
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Repeat the installation when the mod is updated to a newer version.
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If you use overhaul mods or want to customize BLG, you can use the bundled add-on submods. The add-ons are packaged inside betterlookinggarbs.zip in the submods or blgsubmods directory. Extract the pair of a .mod file and directory to use it.
- If you use the HIP SWMH mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for SWMH mod.
- If you use the HIP Extended Mechanics & Flavor mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for EMF mod.
- Both HIP add-ons should be used if applicable. CPR+ will not be compatible with BLG.
- If you use the CK2Plus mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for CK2Plus mod.
- If you use the Game of Thrones mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for A Game of Thrones mod.
- If you use the Elder Kings mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Elder Kings mod.
- If you use the After the End mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for After the End mod.
- If you use the When The World Stopped Making Sense mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for WTWSMS mod.
- If you use the The Winter King mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for The Winter King mod.
- If you use the Lux Invicta mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Lux Invicta mod.
- If you use the Tianxia: Silk Road Expansion mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Tianxia mod. The Tianxia: Japanese, Korean & Ainu Portraits are required as well.
- If you use the Mythos mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Mythos mod.
- If you use the Rise to Power mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG for Rise to Power mod.
- If you use the Dark World related mods, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG for Dark World mod.
- If you use a different mod with non-standard cultures, you can try with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC generic compatibility mod.
- If you want to play for achievements, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC with ironman achievements mod. This disables several portraits. Not needed for modded ironman.
- If you dislike the wounding and disease graphics, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the no disease mod.
Reporting errors:
When reporting errors name the relevant cultures where the problem occurs. In case of game crashes look in Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/log/error.log. In case of installation errors look in Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/mod/betterlookinggarbs.log.
Use in other mods:
The changes made in this mod can be reused for other mods. Please also see the credit list for original sources. The creation of submods or copying the graphical culture setup is preferred over full duplicates.
Credits:
- Pnutmaster - Better Looking Garbs originator
- Shaytana - Better Looking Characters
- Cybrxkhan - many Cultures and Portraits Revamp inclusions
- Crackdtoothgrins - Steppe and religious portraits
- A Game of Thrones Team - Various clothing and beards
- Velorian - Modified Mediterranean GFX
- Euroland - Scarred mod
- AnaxXiphos - Alternate Portraits for Mongol Children
- ahhheygao - Retouched Mongolian Eyes
- rein005 - Chinese Portraits
- Huanglukuzhu, xyq661973 & zerosakikamisiki - Horse Lords Remake+New Mongolian/Khitan/Han Portraits
- Silfae - Roman clothing
- Norse hair and beards - Proper Northmen
- Erilaz - Real Gjermundbu and Coppergate Helmets
- Tianxia - Japanese, Korean, Khmer and Ainu portraits