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Release 27-09-2020 for 3.3.3
    • 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



    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 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.

    Changelog:

    27-09-2020
    Portrait properties fully rewritten:
    - Modern code style.
    - Repeated and variable parts moved to scripted triggers.
    - Easier to change and maintain for different mods.
    - More detail added.
    Societies and other portrait overrides moved to scripted trigger use.
    Event scripts code cleanup.
    Culture specific courtier initialization moved into region specific options instead.
    Update some disease and wound graphics.
    Moved furniture artifacts to separate layer to only show on indoor backgrounds.
    New Meso-American portraits.
    Meso-American headgear finally updated with tiered wargear.
    Added submod for Dark World family of mods.
    Replacement for parrot to old-world parakeet.
    Added overlay ring on known plotters against you. (red-black, your plot moved to dark purple)
    Added Ihram clothing while on Hajj.
     
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    • Release 16-01-2021 for 3.3.3
    • 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



    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 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.

    Changelog:

    16-01-2021

    Fade dead character portraits, with a game rule toggle.
    Change necklaces to the characters view angle.
    Fixed twin ethnicities matching.
     
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    • Release 21-03-2021 for 3.3.4
    • 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



    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.

    Changelog:

    21-03-2021

    Scale up ship models.
    Added non-dlc carried helmets.
    Separated some more scripted triggers.
    Reordered backgrounds for better compatibility.
    Moved religious clothing for better compatibility.
    More wounded and disfigured graphics.
    Created versions of effect graphics fitted for animals and other creatures.
    Varied dragon portraits.
    Added North-American unit variant of Meso-American units.
    Added mammoth unit retexture.
    Added crutch for crippled characters.
    Randomize cleavages.
    Added more artifacts, pets and familiars.
    Reworked Chinese empress jewelry, actually supports offmap empires now.
    Switched imperial secondary spouses to kings headgear for variety.
     
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    • Release 27-10-2021 for 3.3.5
    • 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:
    betterlookinggarbs.jpg


    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.

    Changelog:

    27-10-2021
    Rewrite and clean up of the portrait properties code.
    Combine various culture specific hairstyling rules into a unified system.
    Let customized clothing choices be replaced with armour in battle.
    For all the Egyptian derived portraits replaced the mouths to fix their resting bitch face.
    Scale up mace and axe sprites a bit.
    Clean up remaining unchanged effect layers with incomplete transparency.
    Replaced Chinese makeup trigger, also didn't support offmap empires.
    Included the Faerun compatibility submod.
     
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    • Release 13-01-2022 for 3.3.5.1
    • 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:
    betterlookinggarbs.jpg


    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.

     
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    • Release 10-10-2022 for 3.3.5.1
    • 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:
    betterlookinggarbs.jpg


    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.

     
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    • Release 04-01-2024 for 3.3.5.1
    • 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:
    betterlookinggarbs.jpg


    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.

     
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