Been waiting long for a mod like this to be released! Is it compatible with CK2Plus?
@Vindahl
Well mate, I think my first two posts explain what this mod does/attempts to do. But to summarize: it gives dna to 99% of landed characters (exceptions found in France/HRE area) so they look closer to a realistic look, that means historical/cultural stereotype or in some cases more like the real person did according to information of them that has come to us... so as I said in my 2nd post Eustache de Boulogne for example should sport a moustache and look like a northern frankish noble as he should etc... The mod also generates new characters according to cultural stereotypes, so if a culture like say Normans were cleanshaven, newly generated Normans will be cleanshaven...or if a culture had beards as a rule, they should obviously have beards etc... The mod does other things as well, mostly to improve realism and character looks and has integrated graphical changes from other works... so you can for example notice orthodox priestly headgear on orthodox priests (trovador and thrashing mad did a great job on that) and there's also graphical changes done to pagans/turks/africans as seen in peuri's work.
But anyway if you want to see the difference quickly just boot up a game with vanilla look at scandinavian nobles and byzantine nobles then load a game with this mod and see the difference.
The characters you see in 1066 scenario when beggining a new game are randomly generated by the game with a couple exceptions (like Harold or William), and since their DNA is generated by the game they can look slightly different on restarts(whenever you want to start a new game), and the standard generation rules do not reflect historical/cultural realism. If you look at vannilla history files where the characters are stored you will see that they do not have dna.(there's maybe like 5-6 characters in all of the history files with individualized dna? or thereabouts ) The standard generated landed characters in 1066 scenario are a bit of a letdown imho, for example where are those vaunted Scandinavian blondes?
Also when generating new characters (via intrigue invite to court options for example) the standard rules the game uses result in characters that don't look as their culture should, so for example you'll see a lot of cleanshaven Byzantines etc...(cleanshaven characters are given huge priority by standard game, when in reality majority of cultures in the game should have beards for one)
Characters will not look alike mate - do not worry about that. There will be cultural similarities, such as saxons sporting more moustaches etc, but no they will not look alike. Just try it and see for yourself. It should also work with Mongol DLC just fine.
Been waiting long for a mod like this to be released! Is it compatible with CK2Plus?
@sirandre:
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it . I was thinking about some changes in that aspect, not sure what I'm going to do yet.
if wiz include it to his mod, that´ll be the best way, sure. esp. to make it clear, which code will be the base for further adaptions. i was really confused by your differences with such lines as@mate0815
Thanks for that file mate! I don't play CK2+ so I am unsure about it. I posted your file in the main post, maybe some people will try to use it. As far as I know CK2+ is very complex and ever evolving, so I'm unsure how much work would be needed to keep up with it hehehe, probably the best thing would be if CK2+ wanted to adapt some version of my mod to it, rather than me trying to adapt to it hehehe.
On the East Slavic stuff... Well, I'll hold my hand up and say I'm no expert in Russian history (although I did take medieval Russian history in college and I'm not entirely clueless hehe) but let me summarize my reasoning. First of there's a lot of blondes in that part of the world even today (even with all the eastern dna coming through), but more importantly taking into account the Varangian element you would expect a high percentage of blondes during that period among the nobility. I made the reigning Rurikids blonde in honor of their Varangian ancestry, notice they are descended from Vladimir the Great(ruled 980-1015) aka Valdamarr Sveinaldsson :happy:. If you look at Iziaslav, Sviatoslav and Vsevold(reigning princes in game) you'll also notice their mother is Ingegerd Olofsdotter (daughter of king Olof of Sweden). Also part of my inspiration for designing the look of the Rurikids comes from this image of Vladimir:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/St._Volodymyr.jpg/212px-St._Volodymyr.jpg
Also just for fun, look at this famous Russian painting of Slavs inviting Varangians to come rule. Notice how a Russian painter thinks the East Slavs looked like.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Варяги.jpg/800px-Варяги.jpg
Also look at this image of Yaroslav I Grand Prince of Kiev (the father of those reigning Rurikids in game I mentioned earlier), and keep in mind their mother is a Swedish princess:
http://www.boydhouse.com/alice/Green/yaroslav.jpg