I knew sifting through old mods was a good idea. I came across
a very old portrait mod, possibly the one where Shaytana got his original African portraits from, and discovered to my delight the fellow already created a Western/Mongol face combination that would work perfectly for most steppe folks. It took me several tries to recombine the steppe portrait stuff to get something I liked (and was distinct from both the Western/Russian folks and from the Mongol folks), but the end result does seem good enough for now and is in my opinion a good approximation of the motley mix the steppe folks were. They still look a bit too Western in my opinion, but eh, I won't complain:
Thank Peuri for his work here!
Every time I click the mercenary button to hire some it crashes any fixes?
Never heard that bug before, though, but I'll see what I can do. A few questions first: Anyhow, does it crash for a specific mercenary group or any mercenary group, if you know? Additionally, what modules of VIET are you using and what other mods if any? Lastly, does the error log show anything? The error log is located in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/logs" for the vanilla version and "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/Project Balance/logs" for the PB version (though do note if you're running other mods, the log might be in a different folder, though you should probably be able to recognize which when you come to the Crusader Kings II folder). You should get the error log from immediately after the game crashes if possible - if you start the game up again it will clear itself.
Great stuff! Are any/all of these VIET exclusives or will they also be in PB+VIET?
Only NAE 2.0 will be vanilla VIET exclusive. Whether Meneth wishes to integrate NAE 2.0 into PB is something that's up to him, although as you probably know PB does have the original NAE.
As for mods Id like to see integrated, Id have to say zeress's
Flavourful Titular Titles. Its nothing fancy, just a latge array of titular titles you can form to spice up your game. It gives you alot of freedom, specially in role-playing, allowing me to do stuff like starting with one of the normas stuck in anatolia after Manzikert and from there establish the Norman Empire
Ive been meaning to create a PB+VIET compatible version for personal use, but because of my tight schedule this past few months Ive been unable to get it done. If you like it, it shouldnt take too long to implement (that is, if zeress gives permission).
Some of the titular titles I like, but others I don't. Personally I'd rather have zeress do a compatch of some sort for VIET/PB+VIET if possible. As said it probably shouldn't take him too long and since VIET/PB+VIET doesn't really change the map much except in Africa it should be easy to do.
Edit: oh and since Ive seen you post around there, I wonder if you'd be interested in integrating the ancient religions mod? Or is that out of the scope for what you want for VIET?
Ancient Religions would probably be outside of VIET's scope unfortunately, though superskierpat does seem close to finishing the VIET-compatible versions.
Sounds all very good! Careful with the Bohemia mod though (which I, being a bit of a fan of Bohemia in the middle ages, love) - it has done stuff to rivers too.
I probably won't take the terrain changes, just the province changes.
TBH the Aztecs showing up in Europe IS fantasy, and a prety weird one
If you wanna talk stuff thats centuries ahead of time, well as soon as cybr implements the judaism mod you can create Israel literally a thousand years before the real date. Cant get much more anachronistic than that
Well, the Israel thing I only did because enough people pestered me with it. And, well, actually, most of the Jewish stuff outside the courtiers and the flavor event I'm only doing because enough people pestered me with it.
Which does go to show, even if I'm reluctant to add in something at first, if enough of you pester me, there's a chance I do it.
Sorry for what might be a repeat question. Has anyone tried VIET in Linux to see if it works?
No one to my knowledge. I don't have Linux myself, so I haven't been able to try.
