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Just some observations I made while trying this add-on.

1) Female eyes are very small except for #11 in the character designer. When combined with dark purple eye colour, it makes the eyes very hard to see at all and it makes female characters look kind of blind unless you're squinting really hard.

2) The physical attributes don't match up with some of the other portrait types. For example, for western and Arab portraits, chin #2 in the character designer is a fat chin. #2 for the modded Valyrians isn't a fat chin though. If you breed Valyrians with non-Valyrians, this creates the possibility that the children don't look anything like their family members if they inherit the non-Valyrian graphical type and also inherit a fat chin from a Valyrian parent who didn't actually have one.

3) Hair is very dark. Maybe I have the lore wrong, but wouldn't a lighter silver-ish colour be better?

4) This is a really, really good addon. I hate the generic western portraits from the base game and your Valyrian portraits are a major improvement. I'd love to see another custom portrait set to replace the generic western ones completely. Thanks for making this for the community. You are very talented.
 
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Jia Xu said:
1) Female eyes are very small except for #11 in the character designer. When combined with dark purple eye colour, it makes the eyes very hard to see at all and it makes female characters look kind of blind unless you're squinting really hard.
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Yes, it was brought up before, I can see how the current shape is not the best one, it could use a little adjustment.
Jia Xu said:
2) The physical attributes don't match up with some of the other portrait types. For example, for western and Arab portraits, chin #2 in the character designer is a fat chin. #2 for the modded Valyrians isn't a fat chin though. If you breed Valyrians with non-Valyrians, this creates the possibility that the children don't look anything like their family members if they inherit the non-Valyrian graphical type and also inherit a fat chin from a Valyrian parent who didn't actually have one.
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That is because in Geheimnisnacht the fat chin is tied to a fat trait, rather than being genetic, so I'm used to avoid it entirely when drawing. I guess in this case you could say the fat gene in Valyrians is a recessive one...
Jia Xu said:
3) Hair is very dark. Maybe I have the lore wrong, but wouldn't a lighter silver-ish colour be better?
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I've tried, the problem with white hair is that it easily loses too much depth, so it ends up looking like a flat white paper, like in the mod's basic Valyrian portraits. There probably is a way to balance it out, it would need to make a few tryouts.
Jia Xu said:
4) This is a really, really good addon. I hate the generic western portraits from the base game and your Valyrian portraits are a major improvement. I'd love to see another custom portrait set to replace the generic western ones completely. Thanks for making this for the community. You are very talented.
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Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.
Sadly, I'm very busy with the other mod I work in, so it is unlikely I'll manage to do anything more for this one anytime soon.
 
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The neck is a new one. What do you mean exactly? Is it the coloring or the shape?
 
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I see, alright, thanks for explaining.
 
I wish you would redo all the portraits, the portraits from Warhammer mod look 10 times better than this one.
 
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