[Mod] Better Looking Garbs

[ghjkl]

In the CK2Plus version, Christian clergy has wrong headgears. That applies both to Calcedonian and Catholic/Orthodox clergy. The screenshots are made on 1066 bookmark.

Pope

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Ecumenical Patriarch

Orthodox bishop in Thrake (near Constantinople)

Catholic bishop in Prague

 

[Nendur]

In the CK2Plus version, Christian clergy has wrong headgears. That applies both to Calcedonian and Catholic/Orthodox clergy. The screenshots are made on 1066 bookmark.

Now that the rewrite of CK2Plus has gotten into beta state I'll update support to the new version.
The religious clothing can be quickfixed by deleting the lines with 'religion_group = egyptian_group' from blgccck2+/common/scripted_triggers/blg_artifacts.txt and blg_religions.txt.

 

[Mathrafalovich]

Ok, I'm stumped.

Trying to run Better Looking Garbs with After the End. I am using BLG/CC After the End as well, with AtE, BLG/CCAtE and BLG all active.

Everything works perfectly except one (only one!) of the AtE governments (Range Feudalism) reverts to feudalism if BLG and/or BLGCCAtE is active. BLG has no government files I can find, I have tried pasting the Interface and Localization files for that government into BLG as well. Nothing changes.

Any ideas what could cause this behavior? I can't locate anything telling in the logs either.

 

[Nendur]

Ok, I'm stumped.

Trying to run Better Looking Garbs with After the End. I am using BLG/CC After the End as well, with AtE, BLG/CCAtE and BLG all active.

Everything works perfectly except one (only one!) of the AtE governments (Range Feudalism) reverts to feudalism if BLG and/or BLGCCAtE is active. BLG has no government files I can find, I have tried pasting the Interface and Localization files for that government into BLG as well. Nothing changes.

Any ideas what could cause this behavior? I can't locate anything telling in the logs either.

I haven't been able to replicate this. As noted, there shouldn't be any changes to governments or laws. It's probably something for the long awaited ATE hotfix.

 

[Nendur]

Better Looking Garbs

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.

Download Links:

Mod Download

Steam Workshop modular dlc

Steam Workshop Full pre-installed

Overview of portraits:

Changelog:

13-01-2022
New Baltic portraits using the fallback northern faces.
New Georgian/Armenian portraits using the fallback mediterranean faces.
Give French faces more colour.
New Sami/Siberian portraits.
Tweaking the custom face sets.
Tweaking Ethiopian faces.
Add various extra earring jewelry to higher noble women.
Fix installation path detection for newer Steam versions.
CK2Plus support updated to version 5.
Reorganized culture and religion scripted triggers.
Support some more minor titles.
Use merchant clothing for republic counts and up.
Added several new staff graphics.

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 Norse.
• 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 marshall avatars.

Installation:

1. Extract the downloaded mod or subscribe to the workshop version.
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. 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 needed 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.
   • 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.

 

[Silverfish42]

Can someone help me figure out what I need to do to update this More Artifacts Submod - BLG Compatibility Mod for WOWGAG's More Artifacts & Bloodlines? I'm also using Cleanslate and CK2plus, but think I might be able to figure out those fixes myself if needed. Trying to learn more about modding the game but portrait offsets and layers confuse the heck outta me.

 

[Beverage]

Hi, I'm experiencing a bug with some headgear not showing up correctly, using BLG with the After the End submod enabled.

EDIT: I've determined it's something with pacific_male_headgear, if that helps! It seems all the headgear from that image is not showing up, my character should also have a Duke-tier crown (image 5 in that set) which is not showing up, and if I try to customize appearance they are all similarly offset/missing.

EDIT2: Added a couple more screenshots, it appears to also affect (some?) Pacific culture clothing. I'm also not sure if the one non-Saint character having the Saint background is related.

EDIT3: Hmm, I created an Ozlander culture character (a different Pacific culture), and the headgear and clothes work fine! Screenshot four below.

EDIT4: I've found a temporary solution -- removing "tangutgfx" from the Hawaiian culture in zzz_pan.txt (to match the zz_pan_pacific from the base AtE) showing only the following solves the issue:
hawaiian = {
graphical_cultures = { brownpacificgfx }
}
I've attached this version of the AtE compatibility patch for anyone interested, and also removed the event that yells at you for having a bad checksum as a result of this change. Of course, I have no idea if this will break other things, but it fixed the issue as far as I can tell.

 

[Nendur]

It's a small conflict with AtE's own portrait packs replacing chinese clothing. They are redundant with BLG's replacements. It does remind me to change up these portraits to fit AtE better.

 

[Beverage]

It's a small conflict with AtE's own portrait packs replacing chinese clothing. They are redundant with BLG's replacements. It does remind me to change up these portraits to fit AtE better.

Thanks, I was able to make a better fix with that info by just changing the frame number for Chinese headgear and clothing! I have another small bug, which happens with both HIP and with no submods, where some of the eyes look to have some odd artifacting around them. I've noticed Lithuanian and Georgian characters have it so far. Screenshots attached.

 

[fauxcest]

I love this mod, it's a must have for me.
On another hand, I think the romans are ugly, even this mod can't make them better. Is there a way for me to, for example, change their portraits to frankish or german and things not break?

 

[Nendur]

I love this mod, it's a must have for me.
On another hand, I think the romans are ugly, even this mod can't make them better. Is there a way for me to, for example, change their portraits to frankish or german and things not break?

You can find the Roman portraits in interface/portraits/portraits_roman.gfx. Change all the occurrences of italian to frankish or similar. Change the eyes2 lines to the same culture too.

 

[fauxcest]

You can find the Roman portraits in interface/portraits/portraits_roman.gfx. Change all the occurrences of italian to frankish or similar. Change the eyes2 lines to the same culture too.

Thanks mate, you're the best. Worked perfectly.

 

[Caeserion]

Will the mod work if I use just cleanslate and not CK2+ for the time being? I understand cleanslate changes some things about how and where stuff is stored.

 

[Nendur]

For the most part it will work fine. There are a couple of renamed cultures that are off. A bunch of diseases and some other renamed traits won't show their effects.

 

[Nendur]

Better Looking Garbs

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.

Download Links:

Mod Download

Steam Workshop modular dlc

Steam Workshop Full pre-installed

Overview of portraits:

Changelog:

10-10-2022
All clothes extended to a universal fit without shoulders clipping out.
Custom faces cleaned up from pixel noise around the eyes.
Adding various fur and clothing colour layers to the animal portraits.
Adding crowns to the animal portraits.
Updated some background animals.
Swapped broken Berber swords.
Updated Andalusian units.

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 Norse.
• 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 marshall avatars.

Installation:

1. Extract the downloaded mod or subscribe to the workshop version.
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. 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 Faerûn mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Faerûn 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 needed 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.
   • 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.

 

[Nendur]

Better Looking Garbs

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.

Download Links:

Mod Download

Steam Workshop modular dlc

Steam Workshop Full pre-installed

Overview of portraits:

Changelog:

04-01-2024
Support spiritual councillors for CleanSlates religion setup.
Added Sardinian portraits.
Inluded East-Asain clothing sets from Tianxia.
Fixed attack animation on French knights.
Added an alternate divine glow effect.
Some extra dragons.
Updated Tianxia submod for version 14.

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 Norse.
• 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 marshall avatars.

Installation:

1. Extract the downloaded mod or subscribe to the workshop version.
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. 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 Faerûn mod, play with both Better Looking Garbs and the BLG/CC for Faerûn 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 needed 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.
   • 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.

 

[Jia Xu]

I was not expecting to get an alert for this today. lol

Thanks for all of your dedication over the years.

 

[Austregisel]

Its not perfect to my taste, but for sure is the I have most used recently! Lovely work!

 

[jebezt2]

New Tianxia update just dropped.

 

[Nendur]

The Tianxia update has been put on steam workshop, and here's an attachment as well.